Hi, Simon here, for those who don’t know me I live on Follyfield and manage the village website.
I originally offered to build the new site and look after it for 2 years. That was over 12 years ago – another IT project with a significant overrun !

Anyway…

Over the last couple of years I’ve noticed that I get informed about fewer and fewer events around the village because people tend to use the WhatsApp group and DIY it !

Which kind of suggests that now might be a good time to have a bit of a rethink about what we have ? Perhaps the time has come to “park” the website and use Facebook and WhatsApp instead ? (there is a Facebook Group already, it’s just never been used). That would allow even more DIY ?

The only thing to bear in mind is that both WhatsApp and Facebook tend to be rolling streams of information. It’s difficult to pin static pages that can be used for reference (eg. Bin collections, local businesses, image galleries, Grapevine back issues, etc.) as the posts become old and soon disappear from the first page.

So what do people think ?

Let me know and I’ll collate the responses and let everyone know what I find. Either drop a note below or mail me at : simon.kearsley@symmetry.co.uk