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Our Society: A Guide

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A successful northern ec…

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Time to move Our Society forward?

Started this discussion. Last reply by David Wilcox Mar 14. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Nesta, hyperlocal and communities

Started this discussion. Last reply by Emma Lees Feb 3. 15 Replies 0 Likes

NESTA, the innovation agency is starting a major exploration of the future of hyperlocal media "covering everything from struggling…Continue

Update from Friday and the Your Square Mile event

Started this discussion. Last reply by Mike Riddell Sep 27, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes

On Friday I was invited to the Your Square Mile event and I thought I should share a few of my thoughts about the day. The main questions I have had about Your Square Mile has been what is it doing…Continue

Your/Our Square Mile

Started this discussion. Last reply by Emma Lees Sep 20, 2011. 11 Replies 0 Likes

Has anyone heard anything about the Your Square Mile pilots recently? Looking at the website they are about to launch a…Continue

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David Wilcox replied to Emma Lees's discussion Time to move Our Society forward?

"Thanks Emma - great idea. Just connecting with (but not pushing:-) stuff I'm doing 1. I've just posted a piece, by invitation, on the prestigious Slugger O'Toole site about the community assets game Drew and I are developing. We are…"

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Time to move Our Society forward?

Morning all.i can't help but feel that it is time we had another Our Society meet. Open to suggestions about what we should be doing and how but would like to throw in some ideas.a meeting to look at the Our Society Guide as started by Lorna?discussions networked neighbourhoods/social media/community hubs?Our Society 2012?Localism?i am open to other suggestions.EmmaSee More

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Community Organising

A place to talk about the Government's idea of how community organising will help build a Big Society.

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Emma Lees replied to Emma Lees's discussion Nesta, hyperlocal and communities

"Thanks everyone for joining in with this group. Lets hope that NESTA agree to look at the needs of local communities and involving them before they go ahead and just invite the big boys to the table. Will -thanks for sharing the work you…"

Feb 3

David Wilcox replied to Emma Lees's discussion Nesta, hyperlocal and communities

"The Media Trust have now launched their new site for Newsnet, and I've posted some thoughts here on my blog, with a question about values on the Newsnet blog "

Feb 2

David Wilcox replied to Emma Lees's discussion Nesta, hyperlocal and communities

"As I mentioned above, I had the chance of a chat about the programme in NESTA with Jon Kingsbury earlier (well, Jon bought me a coffee over the road. I don't think that constitutes undue influence on my impatiality:-). Overall I still think…"

Jan 26

David Wilcox replied to Emma Lees's discussion Nesta, hyperlocal and communities

"Thanks Will for deeper background on this - and I can certainly endorse strongly the events and all other activities of Talk About Local I've seen in the past. If there's scope for an alliance and/or convening of digital hyperlocalists TAL…"

Jan 26

William Perrin replied to Emma Lees's discussion Nesta, hyperlocal and communities

"Hiya - I've run a campaigning website in London's Kings Cross for some years and now run Talk About Local we help people in deprived or isolated communities find a voice online that they own and run themselves. We also do…"

Jan 26

Emma Lees replied to Emma Lees's discussion Nesta, hyperlocal and communities

"Hi Pol. I have to say I agree with you about the impact and working with communities. You are right that many communities see projects like this as top down and they are often ignore projects they have no connection/imput/reason to be part of. "

Jan 26

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Community Organising

A place to talk about the Government's idea of how community organising will help build a Big Society.

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At 19:16 on September 24, 2011, Elise Leclerc said…: Thank you Emma, I look forward to contributing as much as possible!

At 18:37 on March 19, 2011, Anne Danks said…: Thanks, Emma- I have added a photo now. I look forward to future communications.

At 12:55 on December 9, 2010, Sophie Ballinger said…: Hi Emma & welcome to Our Society!

This network is in the early stages of development so we'd very much appreciate any comments or suggestions that you have. I've set up a Feedback Forum for this, so please do share your thoughts there.

You can read a bit more about Our Society and what we hope to achieve by having a read of our About Us page.

As a quick way to get the ball rolling, please feel free to say hello and tell us a bit about yourself in the "Who are you?" thread.

Thanks again for joining, please contact me if you have any problems, and do feel free to set up your own group or discussion - I'm happy to assist with either.

~ Soph