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

I do - but for our disappeared Brussels group! Apparently this is under review.....

I flagged up my interest and was told my area had someone who'd been offered the job .

mignonnetteZOMBIEKILLEROFHQ

my county? if so no criticism from me i'm well chuffed someone has stepped up to do it and will help in any way possible to get things going

Evening all,

I am local ed for Cornwall and I can tell you we are trying our best! Some of the local sites are doing very well. But I think they are in populated areas with lots of traffic, I think it is harder for us out in the sticks, so to speak, but for many reasons and lack of local page views is one of them. V frustrating when local comment gets posted on main chat topic 'for traffic' as local can be so quiet.

Like was said up thread I am concentrating on getting my listings up, I think I am the first local ed in my county and inherited about 20 listings in total. I am meeting many brick walls for advertising and this is largely due to slow traffic but to be fair an awful lot of the communication I have is pointing people to MN in the first place!

Can you PM me Starfish? It would be great to talk to you, I have lots of ideas of what would work down here but so often the bigger picture gets shelved as I concentrate on listings, local talk, listings Local FB page... And listings!

Has anyone tried to find local on the Mumsnet app? I gave up really quickly as I found 2 posts a year old

@janx

Has anyone tried to find local on the Mumsnet app? I gave up really quickly as I found 2 posts a year old

Local isn't working on the Mumsnet app currently. We reported this to Tech but they must have forgotten about it. We'll give them a prod.

@EmmaMumsnet

[quote janx] Has anyone tried to find local on the Mumsnet app? I gave up really quickly as I found 2 posts a year old

Local isn't working on the Mumsnet app currently. We reported this to Tech but they must have forgotten about it. We'll give them a prod.[/quote]

Well, when we say not working, you can find the right site and topic if you're prepared to scan through, but we're aware that they are in a muddle and it's over-complicated!

Ah brill Starfish
I have loads of ideas too. in my day job all too often what 'works' for the rest of the country just does not work down here so I am starting to apply this theory to MN Local and think about it a bit differently! it would be great to have a chat

I have said it before and I'll say it again: we can't do it alone.

We need Local Ambassadors and people to chat on the local boards and to come to meet ups.

If any Belfast/Antrim/Down/Nearby people are lurking, we're having a meet up this Friday at 1030. Go to Belfast Central Meet Up page and you'll find the details!

Get on! How do I apply? I am interested in the Plymouth area. I have been too slack and have already been thinking that I need to meet up with more of our local MNers, this would be great!

A friend of mine has recently taken over our local site, the LE's really need people to get over there and start talking to one another, sharing ideas and reviewing local businesses. Its a two-way thing the LE's cant do it on their own.

What about featuring a local site with a sticky each month MNHQ?

And please prod tech hard to sort out the app, as I rarely go on the main site, I use either an ipad mini or iphone to MN and the local sites are impossible to access on there. I don't think this will be the success it needs to be without sorting the app.

@Hanginggardenofboobylon

A friend of mine has recently taken over our local site, the LE's really need people to get over there and start talking to one another, sharing ideas and reviewing local businesses. Its a two-way thing the LE's cant do it on their own.

What about featuring a local site with a sticky each month MNHQ?

And please prod tech hard to sort out the app, as I rarely go on the main site, I use either an ipad mini or iphone to MN and the local sites are impossible to access on there. I don't think this will be the success it needs to be without sorting the app.

Hi Hanging, Tech have been duly prodded! We feature a local site on the Home Page each week (this week it's Tower Hamlets), but it's a good idea to sticky a thread too.

ok, I have emailed [email protected]

Hanging Local isn't too bad on the mobile site, if you try that instead of the app.

And yes. We need YOU (points at screen) to help with MNLocal.

I've just emailed......

Me too. . .

Oh do grow up. She's gone for a week. Society will not collapse without her.

Thanks for my email MNHQ. I replied wth a couple of follow up questions, and cannot answer for certain till I hear back from you.

While you ate prodding tech - can you flag up that the app as a whole is still pretty poor

Are not ate

Have emailed about my local area :)

EmmaMumsnet It's County Armagh, not County Armargh