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New Blog Team Member

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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The PARWICH.ORG photo gallery has always been our most popular page on the blog. Since it was set up, the main PHOTOS page has received over 16,000 page views – and following the most recent set of updates, we have now have over 5000 photos archived, dating back to December 2007. To mark this milestone, [...]

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Alsop resident Natasha Astara is a qualified acupuncturist, with over six years of experience and practice, including traditional Chinese medicine and Five Element. You can contact Natasha on 01335 390705 / 07816 601782 or via tashspirit@hotmail.com. Her website is here. Details have also been added to our directory of local businesses and services. Reminder: If [...]

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PARWICH.ORG joins Facebook

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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A record breaking day

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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A spring clean for PARWICH.ORG

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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Banner archive updated

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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We’ve Made It To Half A Million!

Our village website has just passed a historic milestone today. This blog, set up to serve a few hundred people in and around Parwich, has just received half a million visits. The site has been extraordinarily successful since it was officially launched in March 2008. The blog plays an important role in keeping the community [...]

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If you’re an Archers fan, then the newly launched Ambridge village blog might be of interest. But has the Ambridge blog team been taking inspiration from PARWICH.ORG, we wonder?

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Comments Policy

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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Blog hits an all time high

With wonderful weather and a superb Wakes Week, the Blog has hit an all time high.  Yesterday there were 2032 viewings on the site – our highest ever in one day – with the photos, particularly about the Hill Race, proving the most popular.  This week we will also reach another high with 400,000 viewings [...]

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Comments policy.

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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Comments suspended

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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One of our readers has suggested that we start up a new section on this site, dedicated to car-sharing requests. So, for example, if someone is going to Derby, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock – or even further afield – they could post the information here, along with a phone number or other contact details. This would [...]

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Greetings from New Zealand

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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A fascinating article (“News on your doorstep”) in the current (10 April) edition of The Tablet talks about the ways that “citizen journalism” – and so-called “hyperlocal” blogs in particular – can help boost the identity of a community. The article makes special mention of PARWICH.ORG throughout, with particular reference to Andy Larkin’s recent series [...]

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Diary

The village diary has been updated through to December.  Thank you to those groups that have sent in details for events that they are holding this year.  Please do send in dates as soon as you have them, this way any potential clashes can be avoided.  The diary is included in the Parish Magazine, but [...]

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PARWICH.ORG hits the quarter million.

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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Downloading PDFs

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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The Peak District National Park Authority are taking seriously their commitment to promote community websites and community blogs in particular.  An article on PARWICH.ORG and the new Alstonefield community site has already been drafted for the next issue of Park Life (due out at the start of July). Today John Fern, Head of Communications visited [...]

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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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We’ve added a permanent page to this site, which shows contact details and term dates for Primary School. (These currently stretch as far ahead as July 2010.) Click here to view the page. In the future, you’ll be able to find it in the “Elsewhere on PARWICH.ORG section” on the right hand side of this [...]

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Park Life

During the Blog Team’s meeting with representatives of the Peak Park Authority in January, they were very supportive of what we have been trying to achieve here at PARWICH.ORG and keen to promote other communities to to follow suit. Following this up, John Fern (Head of Communications for the PDNPA) is visiting Parwich this afternoon [...]

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Happy birthday to us.

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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What do you think of the blog?

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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There’s a nice article about us in today’s Derby Evening Telegraph: “Tom’s Strictly stint results in a record for village’s website.” Copies of the newspaper are available in the Sycamore shop. You can also click here to read the article online.

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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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Merry Christmas from PARWICH.ORG

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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Do you have any ideas? Can you help? The PARWICH.ORG team are looking to make use of the potential of our websites to encourage sponsorship of the new Memorial Hall and use the sites to generate some cash for the redevelopment. We have dabbled our toes with such as the commission on the Y-Not Festival ticket sales, Christmas Cards and [...]

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Save money, save paper, save the Planet and support the Memorial Hall Project. In exchange for a moderate donation (£5 minimum) to the new Memorial Hall fund we will create solely for you a unique virtual Christmas Card.  You can then email your friends and family (and any enemies) the link instead of posting them an old fashioned paper [...]

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100,000 page views and counting…

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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Parwich Parish Council are developing their own web-pages to be created in conjunction with PARWICH.ORG. They would like to include photographs of the village, particularly those associated with the facilities under their umbrella such as the sports facilities, the greens and the children’s play area. Also photos including people and activities will be more interesting [...]

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Do you know about pdf.s?

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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