A few people at the last one thought the #prestonsocial sounded like a dating night.... Oops

#prestonsocial Great to see a familiar face as speaker this evening. Who`d have thought the SpeakUpPreston project was so epic :)

Our speaker Matt Stanton is a Community Involvement Worker at Preston City Council #prestonsocial

If anyone has any questions about community engagement/activism & social media, tweet using the #prestonsocial hashtag

Behold the index of multiple deprivation. Preston has a fair bit of it! #prestonsocial

Better to focus, like Matt Stanton does, on what is good about communities #prestonsocial

I'll have a ponder about this myself later but: what is good about where YOU live? #prestonsocial

Preston Environmental Forum is something that's proving successful - not heard of it but will def look into it #prestonsocial

The more neighbourly we are, the stronger our communities can be #prestonsocial

"Don't mind your own business." Nice sound bite Matt Stanton #prestonsocial

Talking about how issues - engaging councils directly - are responded to quickly on Twitter #prestonsocial

Project Dirt is the Green Social Network - one for you to Google (I will be doing) #prestonsocial

How many of these hyper local websites have you seen or use? #prestonsocial

Check out projectdirt.com for an interesting environmental social networking tool #prestonsocial

Hyper local websites versus existing social networks - where do you go for information? #prestonsocial

Should community websites try harder to help each other so they don't go under the radar? #prestonsocial

Putting a human face on the work they've been doing has helped says Matt Stanton #prestonsocial

The Preston Social the nice people in the businesses opposite & next door, Who always say hello & smile!! :)

“Blog Preston: Did you go to The Preston Social last night at the Conti? Paul D. Swarbrick went along: blogpreston.co.uk/2013/09/matt-s…” Matt Stanton

For this month's #prestonsocial, we'll be looking at internet addiction - can anyone recommend a good speaker for it?