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Help Me Investigate on the Council website

There's been an official report into the development of the new City Council website, it explains the thinking behind the development and the problems encountered. People are dissecting it over on the collaborative journalism site HMI

Brum is having a new Lord Mayor. Beowulf playing, hobbit fan (and Professor) Coun Michael Wilkes was “handed the chain” on the 19th. Previous Lord Mayor Coun Chauhdry Rashid is now deputy mayor. Coun Rashid, you may recall has a website — the wonderfully URL’d lordmayor.org — we were hoping for blogging from him, but sadly the site isn’t updated much (nor does it look to be council run, official stuff is here). Is he going to hand over the virtual keys, no sign yet? And while were at it Coun Wilkes, do you fancy setting up a blog? I’ve just grabbed birminghammayor.wordpress.com and you can have it whenever you like. Image from lolitics.

Comedy gods Rich Batsford and Simon Harper of the Brum Comedy Facebook Group have just launched a new website. Who’s Laughing Now is looking like a comprehensive comedy magazine online for all your local laughter requirements. Smashing. They’re also after writers: if you are interested in reviewing shows (for free tickets) or interviewing comics, then please drop us a line at info at whoslaughing now dot org

The Lord Mayor has a website

The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Chauhdry Abdul Rashid is the proud owner (unless it’s a fan page) of lordmayor.org. He hasn’t gone mad and started a blog or anything, yet. A blogging mayor would be fantastic, and since it’s a ceremonial role he/she should be above party political nonsense. Councillor Chauhdry, if you want a hand we’d be happy to help.

Steve McCabe MP, Representative for – Insert Area -

Steve McCabe MP, Representative for , originally uploaded by new folder. Setve McCabe (MP for Hall Green)’s website doesn’t look half bad apart from this copy and paste balls up spotted by new folder on flickr (nice google maps). And or those that lol, there’s also a wealth of lolDeirdrie style pics.

We mentioned Live Brum before, but as of now it’s, er, Live. Josh Hart has put together the site with the idea of making it as easy as possible to put events in — and getting the listings out in any way you desire. RSS feeds for dates, venues, genres, little widgets for you to pop the event on your blog or website (like the Moseley Folk one below), there’s even a very clever twitter thing coming soon I hear, or you can just browse however you like. It’s certainly easy to use, almost everything can be clicked on to take you to more listings, or more information and Josh is willing to listen to feature requests and other ideas — as well as working hard still on his own — so it can only get better. I’m thinking that I might like it to learn what sort of events I attend and push recommendation a little how Amazon does, but as a launch product it’s fantastic. Birmingham might just have got the events listing website it deserves.

7 Inch Cinema’s new site is online. Very nice it looks too (proof you can make WordPress look different. Plus nice RSS, smashing.

Brum Guide might look a little bit (or indeed a lot) like Wikipedia, but it’s just for us – it’s to create a guide to Birmingham written by Brummies (and honourary ones), or it will be if we fill it up. You see it’s a wiki – which means anyone that can see it can edit it, can add pages, can fix mistakes (my poor spelling for example) and we can build up a guide to Brum that contains all the little bits of fun and facts that only we Brummies know. Think of it like helping to write a Lonely Planet guide – but you didn’t have to explain the currency or weather, just add things that you know about Birmingham. I always marvel at how much there is to learn about the city, how many great places to visit you don’t know about, how much interesting stuff goes on outside our own little enclaves and the city centre. I’ve started with a few little bits that I’ve copied and pasted from stuff I’ve already written – can you can too if you don’t mind it being part of the guide. To add something you just do a...

Retail Birmingham is a BID – Business Improvement District – with is (stop me if I’m wrong here) kind of a government approved council for businesses in its area, they have a few tax breaks or something and power to spend a bit of cash on things to improve their locale. They’ve got a new website - lovingly and beautifully designed by local dudes 383. The site itself is smart, but the content doesn’t seem to know what it is – is it for customers (nice maps and guides, event listing) or the BID itself (don’tcha think that huge title might be a little confusing?) ? For Brum geeks tho’ – the fun is, subscribe to the RSS feed and get news that doesn’t get the ‘huge Jamelia forehead shot’ treatment on the site – including (how the hell do they calculate?) footfall figures for the city centre: January footfall figures: -5.8% on last years figures Birmingham City Centre – busiest days in January Sat 26 Jan – 284,263 Sat 12 Jan – 242,032 Sat 19 Jan – 238,871 Fri 25 Jan – 206,262 Fascinating stuff – and there’s nice jetwash-porn with before and after pics of when Ramora...

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Posts Tagged ‘ website ’

Help Me Investigate on the Council website

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The Lord Mayor has a website

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