Do you want to be a Mumsnet Local Editor?

[EmmaMumsnet]

If you saw the last recruitment thread, we did well in getting people started& All over the country, Local Editors are beavering away at making your local site a useful hub for parents.

We are still looking for new Local Editors in some locations (see the helpful list at the bottom of the thread!). Read a little about the role below and if you're interested in finding out more please email [email protected] with 'interested in becoming a Local Editor' in the subject field. It helps if you tell us a bit about yourself in the email.

What's in the Local Editor role? Our current team of brilliant and dedicated Local Editors make sure their site is full of relevant listings, encouraging local Mumsnetters and businesses to post listings and reviews on the site and filling the gaps.

They also oversee Local Ambassadors, who are busy organising meet-ups, as well as encouraging community links locally. What Local Editors can't do is see anyone's private Mumsnet membership details or posting history (sorry, only the Community team are allowed in there).

We don't expect Local Editors to do all this for free; Local Editors get revenue from local advertising and offers.

We know we're not quite there with Local yet, but phase II is coming soon.

Some of the sites are still a bit empty, so take a look around our Manchester & Trafford Haringey or Surrey sites to see what they look like when they are populated with meet-ups, listings, local talk, offers, etc:

Ideally you would have had some experience in a media, advertising sales or organisational role and be able to spell, but bags of enthusiasm and strong community links can go a long way to making a local site a success.

List of sites still needing Local Editors:

Anglesey
Argyll & Bute
Bath
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bradford
Caerphilly & Merthyr Tydfil
Calderdale

Carmarthenshire
Ceredigion
Channel Islands
Conwy & Denbighshire
County Londonderry/Derry
County Antrim
County Armargh
County Down
County Fermanagh
County Tyrone
Coventry
Derby
Dudley
Dumfries & Galloway
Durham
East Ayrshire
Gwynedd
Herefordshire
Highlands & Islands
Ipswich
Isle Of Man
Isle of Wight
Kingston Upon Hull
Lincolnshire
Luton
London: Barnet
London: Barking & Dagenham
London: Brent
London: Bromley
London: Camden
London: Ealing
London: Enfield
London: Harrow
London: Havering
London: Hillingdon
London: Merton
London: Redbridge
London: Sutton
Moray
Munster
Neath Port Talbot & Bridgend
Norfolk
North Ayrshire & Inverclyde
Northampton
Northamptonshire
Nottingham
Oldham & Rochdale
Perth & Kinross
Plymouth
Rhondda Cynon Taff & Vale of Glamorgan
Rotherham
Rutland
Scottish Borders
Slough
South and North Lanarkshire
South Ayrshire
South Yorkshire
Stirling & Clackmannanshire
Stoke On Trent
Sunderland
Swansea
Swindon
Tyneside
Warrington
Wakefield

@MarcelineTheVampireQueen

Irish one emma?

Republic of Ireland? We're just waiting for phase II of Local and we'll get those going. We know they've been a long time coming

Beer if you're referring to the basic listing, they are free, so we aren't actually getting any advertising money for them.

And the only way for the sites to become better and more active is for people to use them rather than moaning they are shit.

Except that us LEs can't do it alone. And can't get advertisers if there's nothing to market.

Can I throw my hat into the ring for Dudley, please?

When phase II for Rep. of Ireland is up and running I'd love to be considered for this!!!

You have mail, MNHQ!

@MarmaladeBatkins

Can I throw my hat into the ring for Dudley, please?

I can't see an email Marmalade… Can you email [email protected] with 'interested in becoming a local editor' in the subject field and tell us a bit about yourself.

My area's on there. I'd be fab (and modest :o) at putting up listings for local events, groups, services etc. but not the social side.

Too late highbrow tis mine!! Muuahaaaaaa

I'd like to be involved and have emailed

@AndHarry

My area's on there. I'd be fab (and modest :o) at putting up listings for local events, groups, services etc. but not the social side.

Local Editors don't absolutely have to organise local meet-ups (although it does help, especially initially). Volunteer meet-up co-ordinators called Local Ambassadors organise meet-ups where they live. It's good for Local Editors to meet with their Local Ambassadors once in a while though to see how they can help.

Good spelling, eh? belatedly spots typo in email to mumsnet

Dang.

I'd be interested to know what anyone thinks of Portsmouth Local. BeerTricksPotter in particular I'd love some feedback from you. I work from home fitting this in around my children - so I can't dedicate full time hours to it. I am aiming to provide a better service than local parents can currently get from Netmums, Facebook Groups and other local pages - mainly by having the most detailed and comprehensive listings possible. I don't think I will attract advertising revenue until I have a site that people want to use. I have started from scratch and and I've been doing this for about 5 weeks now. Please do pop by and have a look.

Can I do Merton ?

Oh, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease do Merton, Takingbackmonday. I will come to all your events. There are squillions of us in Merton and we are all motormouths.

The problem I have with this Local stuff is I bet it's a boon in some neglected areas but in my area of London there are already some fantastic well-established online communities and websites run independently by locals and it feels like MN is just trying to get in on their turf. I think in these areas you should just give up the ghost rather than try to cover everywhere.

My local site is deader than a very dead thing. It has a LE who introduced herself back in July. There appear to have been 2 meetups in a local park over the school holidays, which one other person attended. The LE hasn't posted anything in over a month.

Definitely no buzz being created! It's a shame because I know there are many mners in this area and I bet I'm not the only one who would like to see it do better. I've stopped looking in there now.

Ivana why don't you volunteer as a local ambassador, and get some meet ups happening? You can message your local ed.

I would be interested in being involved in mine but a local editor was sorted in the last recruitment I think - is there any scope for others to have some kind of editing role also to help out? Unfortunately i'm also registered to an old username which I really don't want to use on there and it seems theres no option to change it to this one, so thats putting me off using it as well at the moment.

Westmorland if you message HQ they can change it for you.