Tuesday 13 January 2009

A Way Ahead

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Everyday life in our Nottinghamshire village”
News views, faces, places, - serious, amusing, sometime contentious
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A totally new dedicated village, non-profit making,
community “portal style” website
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This project is entirely, community based and non-profit making. It is presently being developed and created for launching very shortly at http://www.burtonjoyceonline.co.uk/

The project has been created to improve and develop further village communication and assist in establishing an “all-inclusive, all participating” community. The development, maintenance, updating and ongoing administration of the project will be administered by and with the existing experienced (internet/website) ownerThis new and dedicated Community website is owned and operated by myself .
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Together with my wife, we have lived in Burton Joyce continuously since 1971, operating our own business during the greater period of this time.We committed ourselves to retirement several years ago.
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Over the last 3 years, the vast majority of our time has been spent on leisure pursuits and researching our family history. This has revealed that our family originally came to Burton Joyce in the mid 1600’s and appears to have had a presence and served the village continually from that time - as Farmers , Land owners , Blacksmiths, Shop owners, Stockingers and Hosiery Bagmen Motor repairs, Parish Clerk, Verger, etc.
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We intend perpetuating this community service by developing and the ongoing administration of the Burton Joyce Online community project
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Mission Statement - Project aims, challenges and content

Aims -The Burton Joyce Online community project will have facilities which are freely available to Burton Joyce Village at large, to the Parish Council, Churches, Schools, Charities, Groups, organisations, minor interest groups, services etc ., in fact any to any B J organisation with legitimate and bone-fide interests.
The content within Burton Joyce Online will always be free of all political, colour, class or creed bias and will be accessible by all who have the capability and will to access the www/internet. , which today, is the majority of our community ( in the future, this will inevitably increase percentage-wise and in actual numbers)
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Challenge -The immediate and long term challenge is to stimulate and create awareness of the project, persuading the community to become actively involved by participating in, taking advantage of the facilities/services within the project and contributing comments, information, articles on news, views, faces and places, with serious, amusing and sometimes contentious comment

Content - to be pursued - Photos of the Burton Joyce Area, Panoramas, Info/Announcements,Family Announcements, Calendar, Surveys, Forum, Burton Joyce Parish Council News, Guest Book, Classified Ads, The Database at a glance, Web Pages on Burton Joyce Online, A Brief History of Burton Joyce, Local Links, Links WWW, The Burton Joyce Online Area, Villages in the Burton Joyce Area, Churches in the Burton Joyce Area, Leisure interests and activities, Weather Forecast, Mailing List, Arts and Crafts, Walks and pursuits, Groups and Associations, Local Sports, B J Resident Association Announcements, Competitions and prize draws, School Information and activities, Local interest stories, Etc etc

Keep a look out for the launch date ..
However !!
This Blog will continue in its present format - it will not be replaced or superceeded
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