Digital world – Let’s get Digital

Local watch

“A picture tells a thousand words, and a moving picture tells a thousand pictures.”

Wise words from Huhu Studios lead producer David Townsend. So we filmed him telling us about the big international deal with the Snells Beach animation studio.

Get one up on your neighbours, or at the next Rose and Flower Show, with tips and tricks in this video from serial competition winner Norma Miller.

Thanks to the Warkworth Garden Club for letting us film – and for the beautiful leftover roses for the Mahurangi Matters office!

What’s trending

#Hyperlocal It turns out that what we do at localmatters.co.nz is trendy! #justsaying
It makes for plentiful pickings of local news trends around the world so we’ll share them here, along with our take on it.

Hyperlocal is not just about local coverage, it’s about locals having their say. Watch this space … and add your ideas via the comments below.
What the #

A hashtag symbol # on social media is a way of grouping related information, events #WW100NZ or themes #hashtagisdead Due to its popularity, ‘hashtag’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary last year, at the same time it became less popular to use on twitter.
What we love

The Love Leigh facebook group page is a great virtual gathering space for locals. Great to see digital connecting with physical at a placemaking workshop in Leigh recently, with all ages and digital abilities promising to work together to share community announcements. Turns out everyone’s not that scary in real life after all.

Lots of seeds of ideas were planted (plus lots of ideas about planting).

Who knows, if this digital editor had her way….. there would be a digital interactive notice board!
Hills, holes and poles

Thanks for sharing on localmatters.co.nz how internet speeds are affecting you after our story on the poor state of broadband access in Mahurangi. Here’s more on the Government’s Rural Broadband Initiative med.govt.nz/rural-broadband

Check out some examples of rural communities doing it for themselves at hillsholesandpoles.nz