This is the yeah! Hackney website. An independent social network, for people in Hackney; local people sharing local knowledge. Have a look around and make yourself at home.
yeah! Hackney was set up to celebrate the great things and people in the borough and help create a platform for local people to share, discuss and collaborate. It’s full of social community features to do just that.
It’s not like other blogs, the community create the content, not the administrators.
They main features of yeah! Hackney are groups, discussion forums and members
Groups
These are places where people with similar interests get together, so join groups you are interested in. A group can be about an area, like Clapton or based around a regular event, like twee8, the Hackney tweetup. There are also groups for people who love food or music.
See all groups »
Discussion forums
These live within groups and are discussions that fit into that group, e.g. someone has a gig coming up, then they share it would in Hackney music, gigs and bands, that way you they know it’s getting to the right people.
See all discussion forums »
Members
They are the community that are registered to yeah! Hackney, making friends with them means you can keep up to date with what they are saying. You can see who has already joined in the member directory
See all members »
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yeah! Hackney was launched in late 2010 and was created by its community manager and website administrator Emily Webber.
yeah! Hackney does not have a big team or funding behind it so can’t respond in the same way, but if you contact Emily she will endeavor to respond when she can.
We also have a tumblr and a twitter.
It’s all in beta for now, so if you have any feedback please make sure to let me know.
Rules
We don’t like too many rules, but we have to have some in place, so here goes:
Content should be about or related to Hackney, If you are in doubt about where the Hackney borders are, have a look at the map over here.
Keep it legal, keep it about the things that make this borough a great place and be nice to each other. If you see anyone being troll like, disrespectful to each other, racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, fraudulent, unfriendly, or making personal comments about another member let me know and I’ll do something about it.
By posting content (including words, images and videos) on the website you confirm that you have the rights to use it and have made the proper credits where necessary, yeah! Hackney will defer any claims otherwise to the original poster.
We welcome Hackney based independent businesses owners to get involved in the conversation, but we are not a free resource to tap into locals or a place for repeated free advertising. Do not repeatedly post only about your own business or use the “About me” in your profile as a business advert, if you want to advertise on the website you can do so by heading over here, people found advertising their services elsewhere will be asked to pay for an advert. If you are interested in other advertising opportunities please get in touch.
Spam or repeating the same post in many groups is annoying to everyone please don’t do it, repeated posts may be closed or removed.
Anyone found breaking these rules may have their account suspended or content removed, if you have any questions about this please get in touch.
We may change these rules from time to time, please check back to make sure you are up to date with them.
Licencing
Content on this site is created by the community, yeah! Hackney does not take responsibility for the content that it’s members post, however if you see something posted that belongs to you and breaks your licencing terms get in touch.
You may not repost content from yeah! Hackney, but where you use information you find out from yeah! Hackney elsewhere, include a link back to the original content.
Most content and photos used on the blog section are All Rights reserved unless otherwise stated, if you want to use any content, drop me an email.
Contact
You can contact yeah! Hackney on the contact page over here
