{"id":808,"date":"2014-05-31T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2014-05-31T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:49:14","slug":"four-new-cardiff-hyperlocal-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/four-new-cardiff-hyperlocal-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Four new Cardiff hyperlocal websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s news about four new Cardiff local websites I&#8217;ve just started developing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/llandaffnorthpost.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-810\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LlN-banner-700x250-v01-300x107.jpg?resize=300%2C107\" alt=\"LlN-banner-700x250-v01\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been running two hyperlocal websites in north Wales for a couple of years now.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing about growing up in <strong>Abergele<\/strong> online in 2001. Then a<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Cardiff local blogging explosion in 2010 inspired me to take things up a notch and move the site to wordpress\u00a0 at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abergelepost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.abergelepost.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. I&#8217;ve been so pleased with how this site has turned out, thanks largely to our contributing editors <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">David Huges with 63 posts, Dennis Parr with 14, Nigel Hinton with 8 and John Bowman with 3.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My second site is a Welsh-language one all about my birthplace <strong>Colwyn Bay<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/baecolwyn.com\">http:\/\/baecolwyn.com<\/a> has been a project which has enabled me to pilot proofs of concepts in the Welsh language. This is really important to me as there are 50+ papurau bro (community newspapers) in print form, and this fantastic volunteer-led energy needs the tools to be able to migrate online too.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few months, I&#8217;ve started developing four new sites about areas of north Cardiff where I now live: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/llandafpost.co.uk\/\">Llandaf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/llandaffnorthpost.co.uk\/\">Llandaff North<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fairwaterpost.co.uk\/\">Fairwater<\/a> <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/radyrpost.co.uk\/\">Radyr<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just done what I suggest to anyone who&#8217;s setting up a new local blog. I&#8217;ve let <a href=\"http:\/\/openlylocal.com\/hyperlocal_sites\/new\">OpenlyLocal,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityjournalism.co.uk\/find-a-hyperlocal\/\">Centre for Community Journalism <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/local360network.mediatrust.org\/\">Media Trust&#8217;s Local360Network<\/a> know about their existence.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest thing now is going to be finding the time to maintain the links to develop these sites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s news about four new Cardiff local websites I&#8217;ve just started developing&#8230; I&#8217;ve been running two hyperlocal websites in north Wales for a couple of years now. I started writing about growing up in Abergele online in 2001. Then a Cardiff local blogging explosion in 2010 inspired me to take things up a notch and move the site to wordpress\u00a0 at http:\/\/www.abergelepost.com. I&#8217;ve been so pleased with how this site has turned out, thanks largely to our contributing editors David Huges with 63 posts, Dennis Parr with 14, Nigel Hinton with 8 and John Bowman with 3. My second site is a Welsh-language one all about my birthplace Colwyn Bay. http:\/\/baecolwyn.com has been a project which has enabled me to pilot proofs of concepts in the Welsh language. This is really important to me as there are 50+ papurau bro (community newspapers) in print form, and this fantastic volunteer-led energy needs the tools to be able to migrate online too. Over the last few months, I&#8217;ve started developing four new sites about areas of north Cardiff where I now live: Llandaf, Llandaff North, Fairwater and Radyr. I&#8217;ve just done what I suggest to anyone who&#8217;s setting up a new local blog. I&#8217;ve let OpenlyLocal, the Centre for Community Journalism and the Media Trust&#8217;s Local360Network know about their existence. 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