Saturday 27 August 2011

Thanet District Council’s Website Blinks


One of the most confusing aspects of the council’s website homepage is the section called “Events” the main aspect of this is that it virtually never shows any major events. This combined with the council’s homepage being tagged with “Whats On” is I think the single most damaging thing on the internet to Thanet tourism.

Obviously a proportion of the people who look on the internet to find out what’s on in Thanet arrive at the council’s website homepage, look at the list of events, see that there isn’t much on and go somewhere else.

Because of all this I was quite surprised to see the Blink event appear in this list yesterday, as you see from the picture TDC were even feeding this, although who apart from them would use their events feed is a bit a of mystery.

The events list on the council’s homepage and the feed it relies on has an interesting fault that only the council could achieve and maintain at our expense and that is events listed there vanish at the beginning of the day the event is actually on.    
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2 comments:

  1. TonyAugust 27, 2011 7:22 pm

    It's Margate,surprise surprise, nothing about Ramsgate's Summer Squall.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 9:21 am

    We try our best to promote events in Thanet on 107.8 Academy FM.
    The information given on websites and facebook pages for the actual events is often very poor.
    Badly laid out, hard to find(and read sometimes), and often lacking basic information.
    Events should be promoted as if the person had never visited the area - locations, maps, public transport, parking, essential services, useful links, phone numbers etc.
    All the tools are there, help us to help you promote your event.
    Andy Smith (Academy FM)

    You can also listen online via the website at...

    http://www.academyfmthanet.com/

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.

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