Empowering Voices Online

Submitted by Mary Reid on Thursday, December 10, 2009

For some months I have been involved in a blogging project, that is being run by the CivicSurf team. (You can just see a blue version of me there in the banner).

I've run a number of blogging workshops in the past, mainly for councillors, but this one is a bit different. It is aimed at people who want to provide a counter-balance to some of the more aggressive extremist and terrorist-supporting views that can be found online.

So, somewhat to my surprise, I found myself, with a colleague, promoting Empowering Voices Online at the annual conference on Preventing Violent Extremism in Birmingham this week. Met some very interesting people .....

On the way back to New St Station I walked through Birmingham's Christmas Fair, which claims to be the biggest German Christmas Fair outside Germany. It's main base is outside City Hall, centred around a traditional carousel, but the wooden stalls spread into many of the surrounding streets. There must have been a couple of hundred of them in all, rather dwarfing our delightful mini German Fair in Kingston's Ancient Market.

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Submitted by Tom Barney (not verified) on Monday, December 14, 2009.

New Street? Next time do try Marylebone-Snow Hill

Submitted by Mary Reid on Monday, December 14, 2009.

Yes, I have used it - and blogged about it on my old blog!

It's a gem. But it's actually less convenient from this part of London, and also rather slower.

Submitted by Tom Barney (not verified) on Monday, December 14, 2009.

Well if I use it I'm coming from Teddington, and I can't see that the Bakerloo to Marylebone is any less convenient than the Northern to Euston.

Submitted by Mary Reid on Friday, January 8, 2010.

Tom - sorry not to publish your comment earlier. I'm afraid I missed it.

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Who am I?

I live in Hook - the one in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, not the one on Hampshire -.and blog about local things that interest me, and sometimes about the big political issues as well.

I was a Liberal Democrat councillor for Chessington North and Hook ward from 1997-2010, and retired undefeated.