Andy Millne

Haha what a bloke. Some of his comments and actions over last few days will go down in history.

Try pausing the video and letting some of the video buffer. Also make sure you are not trying to view hi-def versions because your computer likely won't handle it with those specs depnding on the P4 version.

Not that late really we've been waiting a few years now for some Welcome. Have some reputation.

Just making sure the group creator gets some of her 15.3 minutes of fame. Not taken anything away from the Bennies kids just corrected the facts. Done now.

Matt Lee-Aliston of The Panto Company, based in old Bedlington police station.

Might want to refresh that in a couple of minutes

OK I've created group badges for these individuals which will show up alongside their posts so you will know who you are speaking to. Done some, waiting on permission of others. Please get in touch.

Interesting that we are having this discussion on here and not on Facebook though isn't it Is the same level of thought and discussion going on in any of those other media sources? So I think we are in agreement we need to use ALL tools available to us and direct them accordingly. Great topic love it.

OK 3g managed to say it better as usual

While I agree with the majority of your post, you've kind of missed threegee's point on one key aspect in another thread. A lot went on to make that Facebook group the success it was. Sian, Myself and several others have been doing press interviews all week to give it exposure following a press release from this site and several of it's members calling in favours. Even with 1500 votes we still had a massive task convincing firstly the event organisers and then several groups within both councils who were raising objections at every possible point in the process even up to the very last minute. But like 3g said, by working with these bodies and addressing their concerns we got a result! and what a great affect it has had on the town as a result. I couldn't be more thrilled. Couldn't agree more, it's still worth riding this fad out because it's a big fad. Facebook is an altogether different behemoth and one I suspect that will be around for a lot longer (unless of course ITV or Murdoch decide to buy it) but like I say one that will also never be able to cater for specific subjects. It is impossible to be all things to all people and they realise that. Yes absolutely! It's fantastic to see everybody in the town starting to sit up and take responsibility themselves. I've also had a number of discussions with councillors today who are keen to embrace it and want to work with the site on future issues so it's all looking very promising indeed. I'm also nearly finished with some of the new features that will really open up the site to collaboration and make content submission much easier. Yeah that's the main point right there, it's about convincing these casual net users. Stick around mercuryg this is great discussion.

changed the logo a bit

... But more importantly there's no snow and santa hats

Also this... You can distill this into a simple statement: Facebook and Twitter is centred squarely on its members talking about themselves on a bewildering and expansive array of random subjects. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS

Short answer is no Facebook does not support embedding of their video. Another thumbs down for why Facebook is bad for collaboration. It would be possible to hack something up but it would take a lot of time that is better spent elsewhere and may break at anytime if Facebook decide to change the way they do something. We do also support uploading of video here to the galleries as well but of course nobody would think of doing that would they For anybody that is really interested in this topic this is an interesting blog post. http://blog.mattmech...end-for-forums/ I suspect most people won't want to go into that much detail but it's OK I have so you don't have to but you should .

I'm not sure if Facebook allow embedding of their videos I know youtube, vimeo, myspace, bebo do and all you have to do is wrap the link in ... [media][/media] ... tags here looking into it now.

See what I mean there's now two seperate bedlington street fair groups Both link to Bedlington.co.uk though which is great.

I've made it quite easy for these users. All they have to do is click the connect with facebook button and choose a display name. No need to re-enter passwords, email addresses birth dates etc. If you update your status/profile picture on Facebook they also (optionally) update here and vice versa.

I think Pete and I are on the same page here. It's great for "General Interest" features and catching up with people on a one to one basis. So what we need to do is to make sure these casual users know about what we are achieving here. To a lot of people Facebook IS the internet and they know of nothing else. In the same way compuserve was at one point and then AOL.

We have just the tool and it's called the "Issue Tracker". Click the link under "community" in the menu or follow this link.

It's designed for one to one communication though the collaboration tools are very poor. Imagine trying to discuss the many topics that need discussing on a single facebook wall and keeping it organised. That would be fun.

I think there was a Miners Picnic and then later came the street fair. Seperate events but the Miners Picnic would have had by far the greater turnout. Some of our more mature members will fill in the history.

I've taken some posts out of this thread to keep it on topic. Post moved were discussing the need to use all areas of the net to drive traffic for a more focussed effort. Posts moved to "Focussed Effort"

I think like stephen says, It doesn't need to be a choice. We should be using the likes of Facebook to bring in the more casual net users. To be fair Cympil brought this up a while back but we didn't give it the attention it deserved.

My main point really is that it needs to be focussed. People have been talking about the poor state of the christmas lights and how there's "nothing for the kids" for the best part of a decade, it comes up in almost daily conversation. It's out there but is it listened to? No. Why not? because it wasn't focused. Tonights events came about because of a focused campaign (towards a facebook group - thanks to Sian and Luke for that)

Bingo! Glad we're talking the same language again.