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www.southwilts.com communities online

• Steve Milton
• South Wiltshire Strategic Alliance

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www.southwilts.com?

• A community development tool
• Enables local people, groups and businesses to
  build maintain websites
• No HTML, XML or Java!
• In fact, no technical stuff at all!
• Just type and go!
• 100 free for users!

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Our Aim

• Improve access to community information
• Promote community groups activities
• Promote local businesses and the rural economy
• Improve access to public services
• Improve communication between communities
• Designed managed by the community
• Self sustaining
• Meet ODPM eGov outcomes

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Funding

• Funded by Govt. ePathfinder scheme
• Wiltshire Swindon awarded 1.4m
• One of 25 projects
• Complex bidding process
• Partnership approach
• 46k for www.southwilts.com

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Involving the Community

• User group established at the outset
• Design Workshop
• Developed the Specification
• Tested the site
• Local super-users and champions
• Will manage the site as a Charity in the future
• Site acts as online consultation tool for the LSP

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Developing the Site

• Selected a local company - Cravenplan
• A commercial partnership
• A complex contract
• Cravenplan retain a stake
• Cravenplan private investment of 30,000
• Rewritten programme as an off the shelf eGov tool

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Sustainability

• No ongoing cost to local Taxpayers
• Revenue costs funded by commercial sponsorship
• Community provides and manages content
• User Group will take over management once
  sponsorship exceeds costs

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Features of the Site

• Trusted Users
• Template driven page creation
• Advertisements
• Job vacancies
• Online Diary
• Online eZine
• Mailing lists
• Self policing

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Is it working?

• Currently 520 community sites hosted
• 6.6m hits since Jan 2004
• 387,000 hits In August 2005
• 35,000 pages of local information viewed every
  month
• 2,500 annual revenue from sponsors
• System now procured up and running in Oxfordshire

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Where now?

• More promotional work locally
• All Councillors online by end 2005
• Drive up sponsorship income to 5,000
• Launch Phase 3 improvements
• Cravenplan invested 30,000 in nationwide
  marketing

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www.southwilts.com communities online

• Steve Milton
• South Wiltshire Strategic Alliance