Tessy Britton

Dec 262007
 
Creating Community

UK Story I found a lovely description of one person’s experiences into the online world of blogging and creating communities in a new publication by Community Links called Making Links . It includes some unique perspectives on community by some well-known people like Gordon Brown, David Robinson, David Cameron and Phil Beadle. Russell Davies started [...]

Dec 242007
 
Men, Sheds and Community

I was totally charmed by the story about the increase in the number of ‘men’s communal sheds’ springing up across Australia. At the last count there were over 216 community sheds open which are drawing older men to socialise and work. The men are working on a variety of craft projects, such as metal and [...]

Dec 212007
 
Teenagers prefer face-to-face

In a new report on teenagers and social media by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that there is a subset of teens who are ‘super-communicators’ — teens who have a host of technology options for dealing with family and friends, including traditional landline phones, cell phones, texting, social network sites, instant messaging, [...]