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As members of the PARWICH.ORG blog team, we feel that one of this site’s key aims is to encourage a sense of community cohesion. After much discussion amongst ourselves, and having taken into account the various emails we have received and the comments that have been made to us personally by readers of this site, [...]

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The blog team are currently reviewing our policy on comments. In particular, we are reviewing our policy on anonymous comments, and comments left under pseudonyms. A meeting was held on Sunday morning, at which a number of options were discussed in detail. Our discussions will continue during the week, and a further meeting will be [...]

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It is with regret that the blog team are temporarily suspending the facility of leaving comments. We have an emergency meeting tomorrow at which we will look at the various options.

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PARWICH.ORG continues to attract readers from accross the World: Good afternoon Just wanted to tell you how delighted I was to discover your blog. I found it referred to in the Tablet, and was enchanted to read such a vibrant newsy website. I loved Sandra C’s lambs (I live in Masterton, where there are many [...]

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Although PARWICH.ORG is primarily written for the benefit of our local residents, we have also noticed a steady trickle of interest in our site from further afield. Over the last couple of years, more and more people have started setting up so-called “hyperlocal” community websites to cover events in their own areas, and many of [...]

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Just before 5:30 pm this afternoon, PARWICH.ORG received its 250,000th page view – which isn’t bad going, considering that we only launched the site 19 months ago. Stats buffs might like to know that in that time, we’ve published 2,203 blog posts and we’ve received almost the same number of comments: 2,158 in total. (There [...]

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There has been debate as to whether we should use the PDF format for information accessible through posts on the site.  PDFs have the advantage that we do not need to copy and reformat the information into posts and for some contributors such as Parish Councils it ensures official information remains in the format they [...]

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We knew that Wakes Week was going to be a busy time for PARWICH.ORG, but we didn’t quite expect such record-breaking traffic. Yesterday, there were a whopping 1790 page views on this site: a new record. And at some point during the course of today, we will reach 200,000 page views since the site began. [...]

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Recently someone had an email to parwich@hotmail.co.uk bounced with an error message, saying the email address was not valid. They contacted a member of the blog team directly, and we suggested they try sending it again. The second time it came through OK. This may have been an isolated incident, but do let us know [...]

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Exactly one year ago today, PARWICH.ORG was officially launched. With 1400 blog posts, 1525 comments and over 150,000 page views under our belts to date, it’s been quite a journey – and we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride so far. Thanks to all our readers – both within the Parwich/Alsop/Ballidon/Pikehall district and further afield – [...]

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Dear blog readers, As many of you know, we have been blogging for nearly a year now.  We went “live” to the world at large in March 2008.  We tend to get about 10,000 to 15,000 hits a month with a high of 20,671 hits in December last year (when Tom Chambers was dancing his [...]

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Thanks to the triple-whammy of a) the Big Lottery Fund grant, b) the cheeky Advent Calendar pages and c) Tom’s Strictly Come Dancing victory, PARWICH.ORG has enjoyed a record month in terms of visitor numbers, with over 20,000 page views (and counting). This beats our previous record of just over 15,000 page views in July, [...]

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We know it is early but this gives us an excuse to promote our Memorial Hall Project Christmas card fund raiser. Click here to see the full sized image and to find out how you can have your own Christmas cards created and put on-line by PARWICH.ORG

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Yes, it’s another milestone…. Somewhere around breakfast time on Monday November 10th, PARWICH.ORG clocked up its 100,000th page view. (The actual total is a little higher, but our stats counter disregards page views registered by members of the editorial team.) How long until we reach the million mark, one wonders?

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Some of the information you can access via PARWICH.ORG is in pdf format (e.g. the School Newsletters and Memorial Hall Management Committee minutes).  This format was designed so that people can access documents in exactly the layout they were written, unaltered by the various web browsers.  Also it is a quick and easy way to convert documents for the [...]

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Officially speaking, PARWICH.ORG is not much more than six months old – but strictly speaking, we’re a little older than that. Exactly a year ago today, with no fanfare and no publicity, the very first test post appeared on this blog. It was a modest piece, which simply linked to a 1975 news feature on [...]

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It is positive to see so many people adding comments.  As well as approaching 80,000 hits, the number of comments so far is in the 980s.  Who will make the 1,000th comment? Don’t forget the more comments you add to the site and the more new posts you email to parwich@hotmail.co.uk the more this site will [...]

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Our yet More Links page has recently been updated.  It contains list of links relating to: Other Derbyshire or Peak District communities’ websites General Derbyshire and Peak District sites Midlands and National general rural living sites Do let us know about any other websites that you think we should add, particularly other Peak District community [...]

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To all commenters: please be aware that a valid e-mail address must be supplied when leaving a comment. From this point onwards, the admin team will automatically delete any comment made using a fake e-mail address. As explained before, e-mail addresses will never be revealed to anyone outside the admin team – so please, comment [...]

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After all the excitement of Wakes Week, we seem to be heading into something of a quiet period. For the first time since the official launch of this site (March 16th), no new posts were published yesterday, ending an unbroken 129-day run. With the holiday season now upon us, posting frequency will probably remain quite [...]

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Wednesday marked another milestone in the short but eventful history of PARWICH.ORG, as the site received over 1000 page views in a single day. For a community with only around 500 on its electoral roll, that’s pretty good going! Those of us on the editorial team always knew that Wakes Week would be a busy [...]

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We saw a record number of hits yesterday at PARWICH.ORG, with 902 page/post views, about 250 more than our previous best day!  In part this is because of Wakes Week, and the fact that we have been able to get some things posted on the same day.  Thank you to the Blog team and to [...]

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It is great how so many people are commenting on posts. Hopefully the more debate the better informed we will all be, and PARWICH.ORG will be an increasingly accurate reflection of the whole community. However, don’t forget you can also create your own new posts by emailing them to parwich@hotmail.co.uk. Some excellent photos are coming [...]

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