Reading an interesting article, with examples from the UK and the US, about how place branding by communities can have a positive impact including: attracting and retaining talent; shifting negative perceptions; supporting economic recovery; stimulating demand, and strengthening civic pride.
Read the article yourself here.
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Yes, of course, FPR. It IS a website for Harringay. Why would we write Haringey?
For me, one of the biggest draws of HoL is that it is about things that are very, very local to me where I live, in Harringay. I have no problem with people posting things about other parts of Haringey (or even the neighbouring bits of Islington and Hackney), as I also like to know what's going on nearby and I don't think the site should be exclusive. However, if the focus changed so that I received from HoL the same level of detail and volume of posts about each other area in Haringey as I currently see about Harringay, I would be much less likely to visit the site, as the content I am interested in would be so heavily diluted. For me, nothing has changed since the last time this very discussion was hashed out - if others want sites for different parts of the borough, then there's no reason they can't go off and create them.
It only goes to eight levels.
Where would you stop though? Say you get your borough-wide forum - when would that stop being enough and you'd think a London-wide forum is needed, then a regional one and then a national one?
There are neighbourhood forums for Tottenham, Bounds Green, Stroud Green, Noel Park and Crouch End. Generally there's some overlap with neighbouring areas and borough-wide issues get an airing.
Why would we need to duplicate their work with a Haringey version? What would we offer that couldn't be read and discussed on those sites?
This argument was conducted fairly recently. The overwhelming consensus was that it should be a site for Harringay not Haringey. It's a small enough area to feel local, to know regular posters, to spot your real life friends online. To be about things you see and experience every day. Why do you need to widen the audience? I don't care that much about pavements in Muswell Hill, or railings in Bounds Green, and I don't share a sense of being neighbours with people from there as I do from Harringay.
As Liz said there are lots of other forums around or you could set up on your own. HoL does not have a remit to provide a "decentralised borough wide media forum" for the residents of Haringey.
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