Posts Tagged ‘The Guardian’

Talk About Local is a project to give people in their communities a powerful online voice. Old Broadcasting House is now home to The Guardian Local project, and on Saturday 17th April an Un-Conference is to be held in partnership with Talk About Local here in Leeds. A similar event was held in Stoke-on-Trent during October and we will be using the Un-Conference format in the hope to have some of the very best hyperlocal publishers and special guests attending on the day.

To book your place there are 50 tickets available at Eventbrite here. There will be more given out after local bloggers in Yorkshire, and the North East have got their tickets.

On Wednesday 21 October, The Loft hosted the fifth gathering of  Leeds Girl Geeks for our Girl Geek Dinner. The day got off to a great start with nti’s own Leia Bassett and Becky Edlin from Magpie Communications being invited on to the Radio Leeds breakfast show to explain what being a girl geek is all about. (more…)

The Guardian has announced their latest initiative for the city of Leeds. If you are a blogger interested in creating and curating local multimedia content for your city, find out more about the latest job opportunity to be The Guardian’s leading Beatblogger. (more…)

The Loft will once again be hosting the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner on Wednesday 21st October with support from nti Leeds‘ Linda Broughton and Carbon Imagineering™s Imran Ali. For just £15 you can enjoy food, drinks and the chance to hang out with the city™s brightest female creatives, technologists, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketeers and PR professionals. (more…)