As has been plastered all over the internet recently, Eric Pickles of CLG has told councils to let hyperlocal bloggers tweet as well as film council proceedings.
Brilliant news! I suspect that some hyperlocal sites will still face barriers though, so I thought it a good idea to draw up a resource of those hyperlocal sites already doing as-it-happens (live) reporting of meetings. If I’ve missed you, please let me know in the comments!
Video (live and recorded)
- Anyone?
Audio
- Ventnor Blog reports of audio being made available by Isle of Wight Council, although seemingly for a £20 fee!
- SE1 carry AudioBoos of Southwark council meetings
Blogging
- Ventnor Blog have been live-blogging proceedings since 2007 – leading the pack with a fine example as always!
Tweeting
- Saddleworth News will be live-tweeting some council meetings from Oldham!
- Inside the M60 tweets from both full council and Executive meetings of Manchester City Council. As if they’d stop there though – they also do GMPTE, AGMA and GMP.
- Blog Preston (always on the ball these chaps) will be tweeting Preston council meetings where they can
- SE1 tweet all Southwark full council meetings at @councilassembly
- The Ambler have done some tweeting from an Amble Town Council meeting.
- The Guardian’s local sites in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds all tweet from council meetings!
Other
- Blog Preston has a piece by Cllr John Potter who tabled a motion, subsequently passed, to open up proceedings including through live webcast.
- Windsor & Maidenhead passed a motion to allow recording following Chris Taggart’s efforts.
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I’ve been live-tweeting Southwark full council meetings for a while at
http://twitter.com/councilassembly
I recently tweeted from a Town Council planning meeting which included comments & discussions from members of the public. I then put my tweets online but felt I shouldn’t include other people’s tweets in the article. I did ask their permission to use the image. http://bit.ly/e3sVQp
Hi, I am a member of Mid Devon District Council, at the last Council meeting I asked permission before the meeting to record part of the meeting on my mobile so that I could later post on a social media site. The request was refused and the minutes show that the Council would have to decide whether to allow recording etc. A report will have to be submitted to the Cabinet…I think its planned for March. I was only going to record myself asking a question! The minutes of the meeting held on 2/11/11 are on the MDDC website…..in the agenda for 11/1/12 meeting.
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