Mumsnet Local – Do you want to be an Editor for your area?

Lisanic

You might want to ask them to delete your private email address from this thread. If you message Emma by clicking onto the 'message poster' tab next to the original post at the top, she'll get back to you about being an LE.

Hi I did offer to be Waltham Forest before but was on the waiting list. We are on the redbridge border(across the road) are just about to move further into redbridge as our DDs have been attending primary schools there for a few years. So I'd be very interested for London:Redbridge
thanks

Hi Emma
I'd be very interested!
How about Hampton Wick/Kingston/Teddington/Twickenham/Richmond? I live in HW which is in Surrey but on the border of Teddington which is in Middlesex/

Hi I live in solihull. Have a degree in social work but have not taken a paid job in the area yet. I am currently a at home mother looking after my 2 year old son. Could you please send me some more information. [email protected]

We have complete leeway to sell or give away local advertising.

You are self employed so would need to take advice regarding whether that makes financial sense for you and your family.

I would say that two days a week would make it quite hard to manage.

The thing is, a lot of what we do is social media based and Twitter is an exceptionally good vehicle for this. If you are not able to respond to tweets and emails on a bi daily basis you are going to be severely disadvantaged. Another thing to consider is that Twitter gets busy in the evenings and a lot of my networking is done after 8:30 pm. If you don't want to be monitoring Twitter at night, again you may lose out.

You do get press access to review seats at theatres/entertainment venues if you ask and other freebies like that. I have just been offered a short break at a new Glamping site in return for some PR.

You have to be prepared to wear your fingerprints off listing hundreds of local events/businesses as nobody will take your site seriously if it is half empty. Even if the viewing figures are quite low, an impression of busy-ness goes far. I spent the first couple of months building relationships by publicising for free and entering listings. I now have taken on Norfolk too but if you compare Mumsnet Suffolk with my newer site Mumsnet Norfolk you can see the effects of a few months work!

You'll also have to do Facebook - here are my sites - Suffolk and Norfolk and whilst you don't have to add more than a few posts per week, I have driven up traffic by posting on Suffolk a lot more.

I enjoy it- I have learned so much about my local region, have had some press interviews and have been approached by BBC Look East as a commentator (which I don't want to do ) should they need a local parenting and local family events commentator so you can gain valuable experience. I've also gained work writing editorial and copy for other businesses. So if you want to springboard into PR, Editing, Copywriting, social media management then it is an ideal thing to have on your CV.

Try it out- it can't hurt!

Do you have someone for Wrexham?

I could potentially be interested but but have several reservations.
This is a voluntary position with the possibility of keeping revenue, I am unsure what the tax implications of this are for a SAHM on tax credits.
Would it be selling advertising space? is there a fee structure provided? approaching local businesses is fine but how much leeway to make deals do local eds have?
Would it involve moderating local talk or is that still done by HQ?

thanks EmmaMn

Hi Arion

I'm the Kent Local Ed, and you don't need to know any programming language to look after the sites - so it's really straightforward!

Hth

Have you thought about having any Local Editors for Ireland? There are rather a lot of us over here and a Dublin editor at least would be very useful (and I would be interested...;) )

Emma,

I have messaged on these threads before, re local ambassador. I volunteered originally, got accepted then never heard anything. I have chased it up several times but nothing doing. :(

I am beginning to think you hate me and don't want me! :(

I will do an email in a bit.

I can do southend.

How well is Edinburgh/West Lothian/Fife served? I'm a professional Editor and interested

I would really love to see a full list of areas - some seem quite specific and others downright bizarre. and fwiw the town I live in is not on any list I've ever seen, despite there being a good number of mners here. Hence I would like to see how areas are divided and where boundaries are.
TIA

When you say that the editors keep the local site tidy, do you need to know how to write HTML? Contacting local businesses is one thing, I've never written any web pages so not sure how much technical knowledge I'd need?

Do you have someone for Epsom / Ewell / Stoneleigh?