Well it seems that the online forum has been another waste of time. I have set up a few Community based websites and other things since we moved here, and there just never seems to be any interest from the residents.
The forum is well hit upon by visitors, linked well and advertised on facebook and twitter quite a few times a day when I get the most hits on the forum, but it just does not seem to work.
I have spent ages trying to get as much information on to the forum as possible by picking up local community magazines, searching the internet for news and / or events, but it just seems that nobody is in the slightest bit interested in posing on the forum.
I have however noticed that the posts I am posting are being read, but not a single post from any of the residents from the Golden Valley whatsoever.
When I lived in Wales, after setting up a community website for the village I lived in it was just short of a month until I had over 5000 hits to the website, emails offering news for the site, people asking to advertise on the site, the local nightly newspaper setting up a meeting with me to help advertise the website, the residents could not have helped more. It eventually led to me creating first a weekly newspaper and then a monthly community magazine delivered to over 15000 homes all with a start up of £0.00.
Seems I might have been wrong about the "Community Feeling" of the Valleys of South Wales after all.
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