As the JUMP meeting has been arranged for the 15th of April, we have rearranged our meeting for the 17th of April. As ever, we'll be in the Persevere Room, Kirkgate Community Centre, Leith from 7.30pm. Please update your diaries!

A group that is putting  together an alternative masterplan for the Leith Docks redevelopment is to hold a public meeting on Tusday the 15th of April, at 6.30pm, at the Thomas Morton Hall. Led by  Leith based, Art in Architecture, they aim to stimulate debate and public comment on proposals for developing the docks.

In particular, you may be interested to read the comments that the campaign has gathered from other architects, and 'public realm' professionals from around the world - many of them are somewhat critical of the current Forth Ports/RMJM proposals.  You can download the promotional poster for the meeting here.

Why buy books when you can swap them? You could swap a book with Ian Rankin, or James Spence at a Giant book swap event planned for April 1st. Just to prove this isn't an April Fools gag to send Leithers up town pointlessly, you can read more about the event here.

If you can't make it to that event, you can swap books from the comfort of your own home, using this website: www.bookcrossing.com 

Our next Greener Leith meeting will take place on Thursday the 17h of April at 7.30pm, at our usual venue - The Persevere Room in the Leith Kirkgate Community Centre.

Everyone is welcome.  

Did you know that the 'I love Leith' Facebook group has more than 1000 members now? That's why Neighbourhood groups need to get on the web. It's one of those odd ironies of modern day city living that you may not know the people living in your stair anymore, but the chances are you have some means of connecting to the internet, and that you regularly check some sort of local website.

Although the web is maybe more an additonal communication chanel rather than a substitute for more traditional means of communication, it is a great way of building a relationship with like minded people, and encouraging people to take part. Recently, our Greener Leith website passed an important milestone - more than 100 people now subscribe to our news updates, one way or another, and so to all our subscribers we'd like to say thanks for reading! We're pleased to see so many different people commenting on posts recently, and that the site generates an increasing amount of feedback. Keep it going, as we want this site to reflect the views of our readers too.

Also you might not know that local voluntary organisations that join Greener Leith have the option of getting their own 'editor' account for this site, so that they can post news easily. If this something that could benefit a group you are a member of please get in touch.

Recently we discovered the 'Social Media Guide', a booklet produced by a chap called Paul Caplan, on behalf of the Media Trust. It's given us loads of food for thought on how we can make better use of the 'Live Web' and we thought we'd better pass on the link as it is one of the best guides to understanding the power of some of the latest web services, many of them free, that we've seen. Best of all, it includes a few case studies about how voluntary sector organisations have integrated these services into their work.