Category Archives: local government

Trevor Mabbett’s comments on ‘The Man on the Beat’

Posted on 1 March 2013 by Andy Mabbett

Trevor Mabbett’s comments on ‘The Man on the Beat’, a 1945 British Council film made in Ledsam Street, Ladywood, Birmingham. Continue reading →

Posted in Birmingham, local government, reviews | Tagged air-raid shelter, BDC, Bellis & Morcom, Birmingham, blackout, Discol, Harrisons, IRA, Ladywood, Ledsam Street, Little Miss Barber, Lloyd Davis, LMS, Norman Bartlam, police, RAF, Rann Street, Rhodes, Royal Air Force, Snow Hill, St Margaret's, Steelhouse Lane, The Gunpowder Shop, Trevor Mabbett, Villa Park, Witton | Leave a comment

All your video are belong to us: open licence recordings of local government meetings

Posted on 12 February 2013 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett calls on local government bodies to open licence the videos of their meetings Continue reading →

Posted in hyperlocal, local government, social media, Wikipedia | Tagged audio, council, democracy, free speech, hyperlocal, journalism, lgovsm, lobbying, local government, open content, open licence, politics, satire, streaming, Streisand effect, video, wikipedia, YouTube | 3 Comments

Open Up Your Content – a piece written for Hyperlocal West Midlands

Posted on 19 November 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett wrote about Open Content for the Hyperlocal West Midlands unconference. Continue reading →

Posted in hyperlocal, local government, social media, Wikipedia | Tagged Creative Commons, Dan Slee, flickr, hyperlocal, Hyperlocal West Midlands, HyperWM, Kate Sahota, Liz O'nions, moral rights, open content, open licence, redistribute, remix, reuse, revise, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Si Whitehouse, Twitter:user=808kate, twitter:user=danslee, Twitter:user=siwhitehouse, unconference, wikipedia | Leave a comment

Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please

Posted on 10 February 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett calls on public bodies to provide open-licensed pictures of politicians and senior officers. Continue reading →

Posted in hyperlocal, ideas, local government, open data, photography, Wikipedia | Tagged accountability, aerial photography, Birmingham City Council, blogging, Bull Ring, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, copyright, Creative Commons, democracy, flickr, free, hyperlocal, journalism, libre, licence, licensing, local government, localgovweb, open data, open licence, opendata, OpenlyLocal, Paul Tilsley, photography, politicians, politics, social media, web, West Midlands Police, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia | 19 Comments

Lightning Talks Strike Twice

Posted on 7 February 2012 by Andy Mabbett

I very much enjoyed attending Local Gov Camp North West last weekend. Although it was attended by fewer people than other unconferences I’ve been to (due to people crying off for fear the impending snowpocalypse would leave them stranded in … Continue reading →