Talk About Local William Perrin TAL(WM) Ltd – #PCW09 15 July Olympia www.talkaboutlocal.org Modern web tools empowering communities
May 22, 2015
Talk About Local
William Perrin TAL(WM) Ltd – #PCW09 15 July Olympiawww.talkaboutlocal.org
Modern web tools empowering communities
•www.kingscrossenvironment.com
•700 articles
•four authors
•budget £8/month
•opens up democratic engagement
•empowerment is about information
•Cemex campaign – long running anti social plant operations
•Video of noise pollution – unarguable prima facie case
•Send links to CEMEX CEO UKMEA and Council noise officers
•Successful resolution – plant restructured
•Sheffield forum –biggest web estate in Yorkshire?
•3.4 million posts
•76,000 registered users
•Population Sheffield 450,000
•‘Hi, as a local businessman in Digbeth and vice chair of The Digbeth Business Association l would like to thank you for your articles and interest in our sometimes wonderful district of Digbeth with all our input and continued efforts it can only get better.’
•Stoke-on-Trent Pits’n’Pots
•Campaigning, challenging style
•Reflects local frustration at political scene
•Opens up public dialogue
@willperrin: Speaking to 300 council web managers tomorrow what should i say? #pcw09
@willperrin Council web managers: Their success metric seems to be traffic volume hence emphasis on being one-stop shop not opening up data
@willperrin have them publish the xml file they give to directgov. Encourages reuse of data by people who will use it well :)
@willperrin what's on your about us page and where are your values?
@willperrin ask more of them to provide feeds to planningalertshttp://www.planningalerts.com/getinvolved.php (some do already)
@willperrin 1) stop posting info in .doc etc 2) use permalinks 3) go talk to MySociety about how to make themselves more open
@willperrin "Organisations can't be 'social' but the people in them can - give them the tools and guidance then trust them to get on with it
@willperrin Stop blocking useful stuff!@willperrin #pcw09 I know what I would like you to say to my local council web manager but it is before the watershed!!
@willperrin Stratford-upon-Avon DC was awarded Beacon Status for Digital Inclusion for their Community websites #pcw09 http://bit.ly/3Db79
Talk About Local - creating community sites in over 150 places across England
• UK online centres engage 3,000 people in their communities
• Support to create local sites with free tools
• LA’s can buy TAL sessions for target areas e.g. NI4 laggards
• National roll out Q4 09• [email protected]