Online Community for local area

ByLaurel Papworth February 16, 2008February 23, 2011

Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point? WikiMapia is the project – finally a reason for wanting popup ads! You find it amazing that everyday people would donate time and energy to mapping maps with useful information. I find it amazing that anyone found all-day parking that close to Sydney Harbour…

Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point?

WikiMapia is the project – finally a reason for wanting popup ads!

You find it amazing that everyday people would donate time and energy to mapping maps with useful information. I find it amazing that anyone found all-day parking that close to Sydney Harbour and that they would tell anyone!

The business of digital graveyards

ByLaurel Papworth September 2, 2006

Some time ago I wrote about digital graveyards Diaries of the Dead – a Forgotten Babyon – the email addresses, blogs and online presences that continue long after their creator has passed from the real world. I speculated that these pixel ghosts would soon outnumber their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Well its seems there is now a…

Australia moves North: CNN

ByLaurel Papworth February 11, 2008

From Strange Maps: For cartophiles, the main problem with this map is not that interviewer Larry King’s head covers most of Europe, or that the bulky figure of his guest, moviemaker Michael Moore, obscures much of America. The problem is not what it hides, but what it misplaces. See the huge island continent of Australia?…

Fave blogs?

ByLaurel Papworth April 30, 2006

A number of people either dropped hardcopy on my desk or emailed me the article from The Sydney Morning Herald Simply the Best by David Stonehouse. By David Sifry’s count, there are more than 33 million blogs out there. He’s in a good position to know – he’s the founder and chief executive of Technorati…

Fundraising online community

ByLaurel Papworth December 26, 2005

Fundraisers.com was set up by Annie Van Bebber to develop a “Community of Giving”. Fundraisers.com is first and foremost a community. Best of all, by aiding and advising the people who work so hard to make the world a better place, the Fundraisers Community of Giving will further our common goal of raising awareness of…

Twitter Agency – crowd sourced consultancy

ByLaurel Papworth October 2, 2008February 23, 2011

I presented at a breakfast for PRIA this morning and when I got back, I saw this message from AdNews: Vodafone confirms $30m media pitch SYDNEY: Vodafone last night (1 October) confirmed it was pitching its Australian media planning and buying account, which was reported by AdNews in July. In a statement, Vodafone said: “Vodafone…

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3 Surefire Ways to Win The Fastcompany Influence Project

ByLaurel Papworth July 7, 2010

Fastcompany give you a URL and you upload a foto. You then ask friends, family and random stranger serial killers to click on your link. Prove how loved and popular you are. Here’s some tips: this article is not what you think it is.

2 Comments

Megan Rawlins says:

March 15, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Do you have any examples of local social networks like the one you are thinking of? I am trying to find examples to help set one up where I live in California.
Laurel Papworth says:

March 15, 2008 at 6:23 pm

Have a look at ‘backyard’ or ‘backfence’ – I think they used to white label a local area community online. Not sure if they are still around now. 🙁 Backfence I think it was…

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