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Friday 4 November 2011
Council website misplaces royal visit.
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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.
Maybe Security has something to do with it?
ReplyDelete9.11 I have to admit that the first thing that occurred to me was that they had forgotten to put an embargo on the press release so I checked the queen’s website to make sure that it had been updated and I wasn’t compromising her security by publishing the places she will be visiting.
ReplyDeleteWhat this sort of thing costs in terms of lost visitors and the resultant damage to the local economy is the problem. I think about 500 people visit this website a day, so looking at this weekend and the people who would have known about the event and visited Thanet if the information had been on the council’s websites, I think the figure would be in the thousands, add to that the high search engine prominence given to visit Thanet and the TDC homepage, I expect the damage to the local economy to be large.
Incompetence.
ReplyDeleteI started too write an article on TDC and the visit thanet websites rubbish listings and decided I dont care anymore. TDC'S LACK OF decent websites and listings has finally worn me down if I could be bothered I would contact the daily papers to show what a crap IT. department we have but anyone visiting will find that out for themselves and go elsewhere. Honestly you couldnt make some of TDC's efforts up
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ReplyDeleteI didn't know Her Majesty was coming to Margate.
ReplyDeleteI write a blog for Planning Magazine, and this week's post is about my recent visit to Margate Old Town and the Turner.
You might find it interesting.
I hope the Queen has as good a day in Margate as I did!
Next week my post will be about Dreamland and the Tesco proposal, so you might like to check back this time next week for that...