A new interactive calendar piloted by Bay Life is showing its worth as organisations across the community begin to utilise the features that it offers.
Over the last three months your favourite local platform has been monitoring the way in which people have been submitting events and browsing information. What is becoming clear is that a valuable resource is emerging that is able to reach a significant number of people.
The system, developed in the States, by open source pioneers, Modern Tribe Inc. who describe themselves as ‘a next generation digital agency’ has already caught the attention of Microsoft, who are about to enter into partnership with the company to develop a new set of tools which will enable people to work online in the kinds of ways that you see with the community calendar.
As well as providing a simple way in which businesses, organisations and individuals can input calendar information and images about key events, the system logs and collates entries so that people can edit and add further information as and when they want.
Calendars have been available online for people to utilise for almost ten years. What makes the system new is the way in which it can display and generate the information, as well as offer facilities to store information.
Automatically, the system creates a calendar placement, and then simultaneously displays the event as an article within the pages of the platform.
The new tool works by taking on the properties of the platform. This means that as well as crisp headlines and copy, what emerges as people submit their event, is the promotion of their keynote event to a professional standard.
The ways in which the system has been utilised and customised has caught the attention by Pete, Shane and Reid, the code warriors at Modern Tribe.They have described the implementation as ‘pretty cool’.
The community calendar system is being adopted by Civic Brighton and Hove, a new platform that will serve the promotional needs of 120 amenity societies, conservation groups and neighbourhood associations across the city. The new framework, reaching a population of 262,000 people, launches in September.
Here in Pevensey Bay, there is now an opportunity for Wealden Council, Pevensey Parish Council, the Police, local health services, the library and stakeholder organisations together with local public houses to promote their events.
The interactive calendar that creates articles, is changing the ways in which the local web can now communicate with people.
Bay Life enjoys 11,000 page views a month. We are pioneering a service that is a first for a small coastal communiy in Sussex. We are demonstrating a very practical use. The local web is becoming a parish newsletter delivered daily to desktops right across the neighbourhood.
Local people themselves are beginning to write a new digital chapter in the history of their own community.
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