Sarah Hartley

I’m a journalist, community consultant and media trainer working on various projects which are about helping to connect people, online and off.

As managing director of Talk About Local I come into contact with numerous communities looking to find their online voice and the projects which evolve can go in all sorts of interesting directions.

Current projects include:

- Development of the Guardian Media Group backed open journalism toolkit n0tice.org and community noticeboard n0tice.com.

- Experimentation with augmented reality platforms via the Nesta-supported  hypARlocal initiative.

- Contributoria – Google IPI backed development of a peer-based collaborative platform for storytelling.

- the community noticeboard for Richmond, North Yorkshire www.richmond.n0tice.com.*

I’m a regular contributor to The Guardian’s  Northerner blog as well as enjoying posting to my food blog* covering the north of England.

This is my primary personal blog which is about all of the above, networked journalism, a bit of technology, open data subjects such as;

• The evolution of journalism.
• Enabling participation through networked communities.
• The institutional impact of all the above – be it newspapers, politics, museums, the military or whatever.

And finally,

• Sharing knowledge in these areas, on and off-line, whether through formal teaching of students, speaking at events, training print journalists, blogging, or getting involved in networking groups.

I am based in the north of England but regularly travel around the UK, meeting, tweeting, blogging and otherwise seeking.

 * This blog and those starred are operated and owned by Dim Sum Digital Ltd.