Happy Birthday BristowEnews.com

From the desk of the Publisher:

Happy 1^st Birthday Bristowenews.com!

Today officially marks the 1^st anniversary of the online magazine. It’s been quite a learning curve. And along the way we have developed internal processes and procedures for writing and publishing articles for the residents of Bristow, Gainesville, and Nokesville, Virginia.  Among other things we have accomplished last year is migrating the blog-like new magazine into a full fledged and customized Web Frame application.  Our publishing time was cut down in half as a result of the application we developed internally. We also integrated web statistics and on occasionally check our web site traffic. We average about 12-20k hits per week depending on the story, time of the month, and generally consider it atypical cyclical. For instance our site was overloaded during the last November 2007 Virginia Senate election. We typically average about 1.5-2k unique URLS in a given month, and looking through our stats generally find interesting stuff people look for and sometimes base our stories on them.

 

A few of the most sought after articles we have written  in the past year were the Welcome to Nokesville story, Father’s Day Concert at Nokesville Community Center, the testimonies given by local residents over the Power Lines, and Holy Trinity Picnic Story/Video Story to name a few. We have had our share of interesting emails from compliments to irate readers; nevertheless, this is what makes our community an interesting place to live.

We are proud of what we have achieved and consider this to be another milestone in the life of Bristowenews.com. We will continue to tune our stories and provide local residents timely and accurate information as we see fit for our news readers. Local residents often ask us why we don’t publish in newsprint. The answer is simple – it cuts down on paper waste and we leave it up to the readers to print the article if they so desire, but all our stories are archived on the web site. Bristowenews.com strives and promotes going green after all, and we consider recycled digital electrons as a renewable resource.

We look forward to another year of interesting stories, facts, and events. We hope to capture and record a historical snapshot of Bristow, Gainesville, and Nokesville time line. We look forward in providing value added service to our loyal readers and look for stories unique to our community.

BristowEnews.com staff are local residents of Bristow. We love our community and we want to keep it green through electronic publishing.

 

Date Published: 2008-05-28 05:15:11

Section: Local News,