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Re: Contact

Luke — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:08:24 -0000

Hi there!

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for helping to bring your community together with your hyper-local blog!

I'm running an event this Friday (29th) at The Public in West Bromwich, it is the launch the West Midlands hub of #media2012, a national group of people who want to use the Olympic games to get things done, to raise awareness of issues and to praise those who deserve recognition.

If you or any of your community are interested in poppin down, we'll be running workshops on video production skills, interview techniques, web creation, social media usage, photography, run a live brief and have talks and q&a's with citizen journalism workers.

Also, on the 30th we'll be putting those skills into practice by covering the Olympic Torch as it passes through West Bromwich, as well as covering the local events that are going on because of the Torch.

Everything is free for the day (minus food), Friday begins at 10am, more information can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/wmlaunch

Thanks,
Luke

Re: Handsworth Tai Chi Class

Zarina Bhatia — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:57:43 -0000

It was about a month ago when a colleague on the group had arranged for a local journalist from Handsworth to attend one of our Tai Chi class. The rest follows in this clip.

Re: Handsworth Tai Chi Class

Markp — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:05:22 -0000

withso many services closing because they are not used or are too expensive, this tai chi class is fantastic and really needs the support of the council and community. I hope Midlands Today and the local press pick it up and highlight it to more people

Re: Contact

GoldenMe — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:26:34 -0000

The article is simply based on Birmingham City Council budget data. I have included a link to the raw data. Also note that the reference to Sutton Coldfield is at a constituency level and there are seven libraries namely Boldmere, Mere GreenSutton, Coldfield Children's Library, Sutton Coldfield Lending & Music Library, Sutton Coldfield Reference Library
Walmley, and Wylde Green.

Re: Contact

Romana_07 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:05:37 -0000

you need to get the facts right on a site like this - sutton coldfield no longer has a library - there is a small library in four oaks and one in walmley and it has been like that for some time

Re: Why does Sutton Coldfield have more librarians than Perry Bar Constituency?

GoldenMe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:05:55 -0000

Sure, that will be a useful dimension to our library inquiry. I will launch another FOI request. Do you have any suggestions how the request could actually be worded?

Re: Why does Sutton Coldfield have more librarians than Perry Bar Constituency?

GoldenMe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:58:47 -0000

Certainly interesting because the dates are for December 2011. That is a story on its own.
Here is a link to the data http://bit.ly/A8yJVS.

Re: Why does Sutton Coldfield have more librarians than Perry Bar Constituency?

Paul Bradshaw — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:12:27 -0000

It might also be worth finding out about local demand - for example, local colleges (although they would have their own libraries) may have an impact. In theory, the more a library is used the more staff are needed, whereas population is an indirect indicator of need. Still, the figures are striking.

Re: Why does Sutton Coldfield have more librarians than Perry Bar Constituency?

Paul Bradshaw — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:04:42 -0000

What dates does the data cover? Sutton's central library has been closed for over a year due to asbestos - would be interesting to see how that affects the figures.

Re: About

Simon Whitehouse — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:23:12 -0000

Hello Shilangu
I do like the site.
Digital Birmingham have a project, Birmingham Civic Dashboard , which receives a report of the requests that come in from members of the public for services from Birmingham City Council each day. It then produces a number of visualisations of that data, such as showing them on a map.
It's been live for a couple of months now and I'm holding an event next Tuesday from 4 - 7pm at Fazeley Studios to talk to local bloggers about what they think about the site and also how it could be more useful to them.
It would be great if you, or anybody else who is involved in the site, were to come along. Sign up is through the Eventbrite page here .

Re: Councillor Waseem Zaffar receives the library petition from Handsworth Against the Cuts

Sihlangu — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:10:44 -0000

Thanks Dilbagh Dhami. You know Waseem very well.

Re: Councillor Waseem Zaffar receives the library petition from Handsworth Against the Cuts

Dilbagh Dhami — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:13:18 -0000

Pretty sure Waseem would have commented on the deprivation in the area, as for depravity? Well, that's a different matter!

Re: About

Sihlangu — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:04:29 -0000

Interested! Great work Aftab. I am thrilled by what you do for the community. We need to meet on the 16 November for the Social Media Surgery. I hope we could have a chat.

Re: About

Sihlangu — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:56:42 -0000

I am already involved with Hands on Handsworth. We will be collaborating actively for the good of our neighbourhood. We had a great meeting a fortnight ago. I was thrilled by the ideas from other citizen journalists. Please can you furnish me with the identities of other citizen journalists in Handsworth so that we could collaborate more.

Re: About

Aftab Rahman — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:31:33 -0000

My name is Aftab Rahman and I am the director of a small charity called Legacy WM. We have been successful in gaining funds from Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project called 'Bangla Food Journeys' this is about recording Bangladeshi heritage through food. I am in the process of developing a new bid to HLF for a project called, 'Lozells and East Handsworth heritage trail'. The aim is to identity some of the historical buildings and record what they did and what they do now. This will include giving guided tours of the buildings. Is this something that your organisation may be interested in?

Re: About

Nick booth — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:17:21 -0000

Are you aware of hands on habdsworth - a site that has been doing something very similar? Might be as well to help that thrive rather than start from scratch - could alos increase the chances of what youre doing being sustaunable. There's also a network of "citizen journalists" in handsworth.