Free website for every Nairn community group

February 12, 2009 · Filed Under Nairn 

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More than once the issue of modernising Nairn and looking to the future has come up as an issue.

However, this has to include activity online as well as offline, and if Nairn’s different interest organisations are going to develop a voice in the 21st century, they need to be online for easy public reference.

I don’t normally talk about my business interests here – this is intended to be a personal blog – but I do run a surprisingly large and successful internet services companies that probably employs more people than a lot of businesses in Nairn.

The company is specialised in internet marketing services and webdevelopment forms a major part of its operations.

In order to help bring all of Nairn’s interest groups and organisations to the internet, I’m therefore volunteering my company’s assets and resources to get every one of them online.

This means:

- free domain registration and renewal
- free website,
- free and easy to use Content Management System (CMS), with integrated blog/news section with RSS feed, ping services, and similar bells and whistles
- free webhosting
- free management

Basically, my company will cover all of the costs involved and development time required – all the group has to do is develop and maintain their own content.

I’m happy to do this for the different Nairn community councils, any non-profit organisation, and other community group.

My company can afford to do this because it already provides marketing services to major brands, and I’m happy to reinvest into the local community.

Here’s a gauntlet as well – I’ll even volunteer my company services to get the Nairnshire Telegraph online, if Iain Bain wants to contact me.

This way, we can get Nairn’s voice carried over into the 21st century digital age, where everybody and anybody can reference essential information at leisure.

To contact me: http://www.britecorp.co.uk/contact/

Now, any questions? :)

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7 Responses to “Free website for every Nairn community group”

  1. Iain on February 15th, 2009 8:29 pm

    Now there’s an offer worth taking up! Let me have details of any voluntary group who pursues this and I’ll give them a link on visitnairn.com

  2. william fraser milne on February 17th, 2009 9:40 am

    thats very good of you and i hope groups take you up on this offer of help. nairn needs all the support it can get.
    well done

  3. stephen on February 18th, 2009 4:33 pm

    great offer Brian and i hope you get some takers for your very genorous offer.. you did us proud in helping create our cinema of dream website , which is is now running great thaks brian

  4. David Brownless on February 19th, 2009 2:28 pm

    Brian,

    Auldearn Community Council would be delighted to take up your very kind offer.

    I realise we will have to handle all the content – I am reasonably familiar with Dreamweaver, so , as long as it’s no more technical than that, we should be OK.
    regards

    David Brownless

  5. Mandy Lawson on March 1st, 2009 1:40 pm

    I really hope the Nairnshire Telegraph has the foresight and courage to take you up on such a generous offer….
    As a Nairn exile, regular visitor and occasional Nairn ambassador to other parts of the world, and a big fan of the Nairnshire Telegraph which I know holds huge nostalgia for locals, I think it would be fantastic to be able to access such a Nairn institution at the click of a mouse.
    I know my late dad John Lawson- who relied on the unique Nairnshire Telegraph archive as a living link with the past for his historical research- would have wholeheartedly approved of such a positive leap into the 21st century, and was in his time a proactive advocate of an electronic archive for the town.
    What potential! – a Nairnshire Telegraph which can bring to a global audience not just to latest news of local events and developments but access also to the Nairnshire archives which record all the adventures of our little Highland town’s rich history and people.
    If our local paper does not embrace the web soon it could prove disastrous, with ‘adapt or die’ the prevailing climate in the communication industries, and modern tourism requiring global visibility.( now!)
    I’d urge Iain Bain to get with the programme and be brave enough to explore the potential of your generous offer Brian…its not a case of losing Nairn’s heritage and traditions – there will always(we can but hope) be a market for local journalism and a ‘hard copy’ Nairnshire – but getting online does not just mean tapping into a wider readership beyond Nairn it can also mean harnessing computer technology to bring news to the many Nairnites who are getting older and have sensory impairments and disabilities .
    Anecdote – an elderly Nairn friend who is hard of seeing tells me her current
    ( Inverness) ‘Talking Newspaper’ begins by reciting about 20 deaths, by which time she is so depressed she switches the tape off…surely we can do better than this in the 21st century….
    Embracing tomorrow’s solutions is the only way to truly ‘future proof’ Nairn’s unique character and identity as reflected in the Nairnshire and enable future generations to continue to enjoy what makes people passionate about this little corner of Scotland.

  6. Brian Turner on March 1st, 2009 9:21 pm

    Good post, Many, and welcome to the site. :)

  7. Des on March 2nd, 2009 2:51 pm

    Hello Mandy :-)

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