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Sharp eyed readers will have spotted we have a new Blog Team member. Welcome to Fiona from all the Team.  She has always been an active supporter of PARWICH.ORG even when living at a distance, so all the Team are very pleased she has joined us.

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If you’re a Facebook user, then please consider “liking” the Facebook page for PARWICH.ORG. This will send links to all new blog posts to your Facebook News Feed. Updated: Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/parwich

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It seems appropriate that after such a successful evening last night at the PP5, today Parwich.org has broken another record,which was set after the Hill Race in early July.  Today we have had the highest number of hits on the blog in one day, 2478. Thank you to everyone who uses the Blog, don’t forget to keep [...]

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Yesterday saw a record number of hits on Parwich.org, reaching a massive total of 2363 in just one day!

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As some corners of PARWICH.ORG had become a little dusty over the past three years, we’ve had a bit of a spring clean. Although you won’t notice a great deal of difference, the content on on our various “static” pages has been checked for accuracy, and the various links on our blog sidebar have been [...]

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Our archive of banner images for PARWICH.ORG now stretches back over three years, encompassing almost 40 different seasonal views of the village. Please click here for the full visual treat!

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For those of you who use Twitter, PARWICH.ORG is now tweeting at @parwichblog. Every time we publish a new post to the blog, a new tweet will automatically appear, with a link that will take you straight through to the individual post. (Note that the system checks for new posts every thirty minutes, so there [...]

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In an article in the Property section of The Times on Friday February 18th (“Community websites give the info you need on your neighbourhood”), PARWICH.ORG was cited as an example of a successful “hyperlocal” blog. If you are a paid subscriber to The Times, you can read the article by clicking here.

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Just a reminder to people submitting comments that they must comply with our comments policy (see also the link at the top of the right hand column). Also unless a valid email address is supplied we can not let you know if your comment is not to be published as submitted.

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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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