Projects Update
Posted on | October 30, 2011 | Comments Off
Here is a list of projects that we’ve either hand-held or fully developed over the the last 9 months using the Ourlocality publishing platform.
Almost all projects were pulled off in less than a day, with a great many in just a couple of hours. Site owners can also develop their projects using a powerful array of behind the scenes tools.
We have a host of pipeline projects that are taking longer, but will they be better? Well who knows.
- The Bakery Dunbar
- Tyne and Esk Writers
- Scottish Participatory Initiatives
- Fashion School
- Innerwick Village
- Feed Your Family From 50 Miles
- Visit Dunbar
- Art Root: Open Studios September 2011
- WeeGreen Search
- Buy Local Food
Project Insights with Insight.ly
Posted on | August 16, 2011 | Comments Off
Every so often a new and eye-catching online application appears on the scene. In the parallel world of the iPhone, they can take only seconds to learn and a seconds to forget, before they are consigned to the dustbin.
Nevertheless just because something takes minutes to learn and no more than a few weeks to master, doesn’t mean it’s no good. Yammer the enterprise social network is a nice example, which came free and easy. Simplicity or ease of use are important if you want your people to use your shiny new application. Basecamp is another one characterised by app simplicity.
Transport Surveys
Posted on | March 16, 2011 | Comments Off
Connecting Dunbar set out to survey travel behaviour of residents and local visitors to Dunbar, focusing on journeys of less than 5 miles which could transfer to walking or cycling. Responses from 520 households, 450 school pupils and 80 employees from all areas of Ward 7 were gathered in. The task was how to represent selected portions of the data in meaningful and useful ways. Sankey style diagrams were used to show the so-called desire-lines.
For example, almost 1300 individual comments about daily travel were received. Most of the household comments that were geocode-able are mapped on this website. These are simple but dynamic maps, so you can zoom in and out or use the yellow man to visit the location using Google Street View. And aggregate maps can be viewed on a topic basis.
Further information was also gathered from personal / family travel diaries. The Travel Diary data was summarised in Excel pivot tables and the data presented in a variety of formats on static maps. We re-published the Sankey style maps over on issuu.com, which has the ability to display large pdf files elegantly.