Talk About Local to audience of 300 local government website managers - Olympia London 15 July 2009

1. Talk About Local
Modern web tools empowering communities
William Perrin TAL(WM) Ltd – #PCW09 15 July Olympia
www.talkaboutlocal.org

4. •www.kingscrossenvironment.com
•700 articles
•four authors
•budget £8/month
•opens up democratic engagement
•empowerment is about information

5. •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

6. •Sheffield forum –biggest web
estate in Yorkshire?
•3.4 million posts
•76,000 registered users
•Population Sheffield 450,000

8. •‘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.’

9. •Stoke-on-Trent Pits’n’Pots
•Campaigning, challenging style
•Reflects local frustration at
political scene
•Opens up public dialogue

11. @willperrin: Speaking to 300 council web
managers tomorrow what should i say? #pcw09
@willperrin #pcw09 I know what I would like you to @willperrin Stop blocking useful stuff!
say to my local council web manager but it is before
the watershed!!
@willperrin 1) stop posting info in .doc etc @willperrin ask more of them to provide feeds to
2) use permalinks 3) go talk to MySociety planningalertshttp://www.planningalerts.com/geti
about how to make themselves more open nvolved.php (some do already)
@willperrin what's on your about us @willperrin Council web managers: Their
page and where are your values? success metric seems to be traffic volume
@willperrin have them publish the xml file hence emphasis on being one-stop shop not
they give to directgov. Encourages reuse opening up data
of data by people who will use it well :)
@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 Stratford-upon-Avon DC was awarded
Beacon Status for Digital Inclusion for their
Community websites #pcw09 http://bit.ly/3Db79

12. 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
• william@talkaboutlocal.org