Social media in Peterborough - Citizen Power Peterborough

Hi, Did you know that you guy…

2011-03-09T10:27:31.803Z

Hi,

Did you know that you guys, along with the WHOLE arts / alternative scene in Peterborough are INVISIBLE online?

Put peterborough into google, twitter, facebook and you get pubs and football.

I moved here 18 months ago and have felt terribly alone because there is no way to meet people here or get involved with any of this stuff.

I only found out about the Blok Collective by chance through the PECT facebook group, and someone from there noticed my efforts to discover one other person who lives here and doesn't read the Daily Mail.

Before starting any other obscurely named website, may I suggest you do some search engine optimisation? Because Peterborough's online presence really does fulfil every stereotype you could imagine.

Emily x

G'day, I've just read throu…

2010-12-21T17:44:18.000Z

G'day,

I've just read through this entire thread and the statement sticking in my mind is from Kate:

"there is no information infra-structure in Peterborough"

And there is lack of social media in the Social Media in Peterborough group?

I say give the power back to the citizens of Peterborough. Let them create the content. Let them entertain us. As a group, we must be facilitators. We know how to use social media networks to distribute and promote their content.

Shall we start with a film making competition. Something to engage their creative minds?

If you monitor the social networks, you'll see them at work whilst we contemplate - uploaded to YouTube yesterday.

Together, let us create a rich social media website for just Peterborough.

Dave, Kevin, Kate, Dan. Are you interested?

Scott

PS I'm new here, so be nice :)

Maggie said:In May I sugges…

2010-11-16T10:35:57.000Z

Maggie said:

In May I suggested that rather than the project trying to resource a listing of its own, it should link to other listings - both local and national - instead.

https://www.wherecanwego.com/whats%20on/whats%20on%20p/Peterborough/...

https://www.peterborough.net/calendar/

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/lifestyle/the-guide/what-s-on-li...

https://www.visitpeterborough.com/events/thedms.aspx?dms=12&msg=... whats on

Or the project could encourage some of those who do not go for the mass audience to feed in their events:

https://www.peterboroughartscinema.co.uk/Ribbon.htm

https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/music/related-events

https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/history/related-events

https://www.callup.org.uk/learning_providers.html - Open Lectures programmes from PCAE and the University

Still seems the right approach to me, rather than duplicating the array of things already out there. Parallels with mumsnet and Facebook.

Well comrades the links page…

2010-09-08T21:22:44.000Z

Well comrades the links page you talk about is this one:
https://www.citizenpower.co.uk/page/community-and-news-websites

And the most notable thing about it is that as of 22:04 on Wednesday 8th September 2010 the link to the Peterborough Evening Telegraph listing points to the Peterborough.net website. And Pottyborough gets a mention. Oh dear.

Everyone's lining up for a slice of the cake. It's horses for hay time again.

Maggie Sounds good. Maybe the…

2010-08-13T15:38:23.000Z

Maggie
Sounds good.
Maybe the RSA can promote it as a tool.
I have to admit I have never heard of it and and nor had been been mentioned to me by anyone else who has complained about the difficulty of finding out what is going on. So there is obviously some potential for a wider readership.
I suspect the monthly output is due to manpower - I know I respond better to the weekly updates I get from the email newsletters I get for various things. From a marketing point of you a weekly news letter can be a challenge to schedule in, but not impossibe.
Will have a look.
Best wishes
Kate

I suggest having a good look…

2010-08-13T15:11:58.000Z

I suggest having a good look at Peterborough.net, as it is an excellent community website run by dedicated people who really love Peterborough and who know their IT. They have established their What's On listing and it is properly resourced. Their newsletters are monthly and I'd be surprised if they can't justify why that is the frequency - rather than weekly. There are always lots of users online when I am.

Have you an example of the we…

2010-08-12T13:38:08.000Z

Have you an example of the weekly summary?
Kate

Hi Kate - this is a bit of a…

2010-08-12T13:31:07.000Z

Hi Kate - this is a bit of a London-centric example, but what do you think of Talks & Lectures for Londoners? I think it automatically collects events from a number of sites (like the Royal Society and Gresham College) and will email you once a week with a summary of what's coming up. Could this be a good model to imitate?

Jamie

Hello Maggie - I think you a…

2010-08-12T08:35:18.000Z

Hello

Maggie - I think you are right - there do seem to be alot of What's On websites already. But I do think something that reaches out and provokes participation is what is needed to stir up apathy in Peterborough. The problem with websites is that they expect you to go to them - whereas the success the things like Facebook etc is that you are alerted when something new goes on - which you might be interested... But as I don't run any of those websites I don't know if they have the tech capacity to run such a thing.

A shortcut around this maybe a weekly round-up of interesting looking events which reminds people to look at these websites and draws their attention to the top quality things. I passionately believe that it is essential that if people are to engage with the world outside their castle that their first engagements needs to be top quality, whilst they develop their own antaenna for what is going to be useful, interesting, entertaining etc. As well as developing the habit of doing things outside of Work, Home, TV, Sleep.

So whether it be a good community/political meeting (apart from a dull one), a top professional musician, a great family event or a walk through a wood when it's at it's best - an e-newsletter could provoke people to think about trying it out, or looking at one of those websites to see what else is going on... A sort of weekly Freecycle but rather than reducing landfill what the customer (that's for you Kevin) would get out of it is "Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead? " (now I am showing my age)

Again - we are back to manpower issue - but surely this is more manageable than trying to create a definitive website....

Are there any models out there of things like this?

Kate

Hello all (particularly to Ke…

2010-08-11T15:20:52.000Z

Hello all (particularly to Kevin and Kate!)

Thanks so much for helping this site to become a more active forum. You’re right that this site has been under-used by us (and probably a little bit abstract) so far. But it’s been great to see the number of people signed up to the site rise after the launch event for Citizen Power a couple of weeks ago, which indicates that a lot of people are interested in the potential of this project. Fantastic.

We’re looking forward to using this as an effective forum for talking about Peterborough – please bear with us as we get more “quality” content posted up! However it would also be great if you felt able to contribute, for example Kate’s idea for making more of the “what’s on” function would be fantastic. You can add events by clicking “Add an Event” on this page – do let us know if the technology doesn’t work for any reason. Also, thanks to Maggie for the great list of existing Peterborough calenders, we’ll see if we can find a way to link to those.

In the mean time, do poke around the site a bit more for the more recent additions. We sent out a message earlier today to all the people signed up letting you know about two of the recent publications that are leading into the project (a paper on the concept of “recovery capital” which is guiding our project on addiction services in Peterborough and a summary of a recent seminar on measuring civic health). Technically these are both stored on the RSA’s main website, but it would be great to hear your thoughts on either of them by starting up a conversation on this site. The Recovery Capital group or the Civic Health group would be a good place to start either of these discussions!

As far as the functionality of this website itself goes, it’s built on the Ning platform which in our experience are fairly good – they are “off the shelf” websites which have limited potential for customisation, but have the big advantage that they are very cost-effective.

The Citizen Power project is a two year programme of work, partly funded by PCC, partly by the Arts Council, and partly from other resources that the RSA is contributing or fundraising for. The project’s aim is pretty well-defined in the introductory booklet that we used for the launch event I mentioned (which I think Kate was at!), which I’ve just uploaded here, but you can find much more info in the scoping report (which you can find in a “Scribd” box at the bottom of the front page of citizenpower.co.uk).

Thanks again for your thoughts - and do keep the discussion going,

Jamie