{"id":580,"date":"2012-06-08T17:10:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2012-06-08T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:10:56","slug":"telling-hyperlocal-stories-using-facebook-comments-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/telling-hyperlocal-stories-using-facebook-comments-and-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling hyperlocal stories using Facebook comments and photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">What if people&#8217;s stories and photos about places on Facebook could be more easily be found and navigated? That&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/getgoodguide.com\/\">Nicky Getgood<\/a> (<\/span>@getgood<span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">) of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/talkaboutlocal.org.uk\/\">Talk About Local<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\"> and I mused about between presentations at #DS7.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">One of the hyperlocal sites I edit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/abergelepost.com\">AbergelePost.com<\/a> &#8211; is a lively local history site with committed contributors.\u00a0When I set the website up, I did what many hyperlocal editors did and set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/pages\/AbergelePost\/146721705380111\">a supporting Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0A few months ago, a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/groups\/370619209625046\/\"> new Facebook group about Abergele<\/a> was created. This group is a much more lively forum with many users exchanging memories and photos of the town.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The difficulty with Facebook is that it&#8217;s hard to navigate this content in any way other than spooling back in time in a linear fashion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">So my question is this: how can the stories and photos about place on Facebook that members post be more easily be found and navigated?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Globe Cinema\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.abergelepost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Globe-Staff.jpg?resize=525%2C511\" alt=\"The Globe Cinema\" width=\"525\" height=\"511\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can the stories and photos about place on Facebook that members post be more easily be found and navigated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,22,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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