Gosport.info Newsletter December 2011

1) Welcome:
2) December Events:
3) Blog;
4) Facebook and Twitter;
5) Contents Management System?;


1) It has be 9 months or more since I have sent out a monthly update, and if you do not mind I would like to change it to the way more site describe as a Newsletter from now on. I have about 200 emails with updates, changes and questions that I am going through, and hope to have cleared them over the next few months.

2) I have added December, Gosport events to the Google calender ( on the home page of www.gosport.info )and the Gosportinfo blogg ( http://gosportinfo.blogspot.com/ ), with some on Facebook/ Twitter. I hope that you will be able to attend some of them and, perhaps even send in your comments and photos, which I will add to the blog. As well I understand that The Explosion Museum is offering free entry between 17th and 24th December for Gosport residents and they have family friendly events over that period http://www.explosion.org.uk/ , I understand you need to take a Council Tax or Utility bill to prove your address. I plan to go to some Christmas Fayres  on Saturday, I have a copy of George Paxton's booklet - 'St John's Forton Recollections and Remembrances' which I will send to one of the people who can tell which two Christmas Fayres, that I may have gone too, ( you will find the information on the Gosport.info web site/ blog/ calender/ Facebook/ Twitter) I will have it drawn by someone that will not have any connection to Gosport.info . I will send it anywhere in the World. OK it is only a little booklet.

3) If you go to http://gosportinfo.blogspot.com/ you will see more regular information, you may notice that many are from the Gosport Council, Explosion or RN Submarine Museum but that is because, I receive a good number from them. If you want to see items from you or your group, please send them in. You can make comments, I used to have it open, but as some dodgy adverts were added I had to make it moderated, but you do not have to sign in, just make your comment, you should have to just click on the heading of an item, then go to the bottom of the item and click 'Add Comment'.

4) I am also adding items to the Gosportinfo Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gosportinfo/124902314385 and Twitter @Gosportinfo , I add an item to the Facebook then it goes on to the Twitter page. If you send in an item but do not want it to go on to a site such as the blog, Facebook or Twitter, please let me know and where you do not wish it to appear.

5) I have been lucky enough to receive enquiries from possible volunteers, via the Gosport Volunteer Centre http://www.gosportvolunteercentre.org.uk/ , but as the web site software I use NetObjects Fusion cannot be updated in more than one place, I have looked in to the possibility of using a Contents Management System. I understand this will allow me to set-up passwords to allow others to update the site or parts of the site. I have not been able to work out the best way, so any ideas are very welcom

All the best for Christmas and The New Year and I hope to send out more Gosport.info Newsletters in 2012, so if you have an event of other news with some connection to Gosport, please let me know.
All the best
Ian Jeffery
www.gosport.info