JimenaPulse

About Jimena de la Frontera, the province of Cadiz and Spain as a whole, focused on this small village in the mountains

REMEMBER THIS?

October 9, 2007 at 18:46 · Filed under APPEALS and tagged: ,

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In case you missed it, we started a crossword competition some time back (click here) to boost our camera appeal (click here). There has not been a single entry for the competition nor a single donation, except one very kind reader who handed Prospero his contribution in the street and, of course, our stalwart booster Capricious who took the trouble to create it. All we can say is thank you very much.

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  Steve wrote @ October 10, 2007 at 09:23

Hi Prospero,
Am I missing the point? As a regular reader of your blog I assume your sarcastic “All we can say is thank you very much” is aimed at me and your other readers. Why?
I can understand the lack of participation being frustrating but maybe the crossword was simply a good idea which didn’t work.
Or is it the lack of donations that prompted your sarcasm? If you want to buy a new camera you have every right to ask me to donate towards it, and in turn I have the right to refuse.
A quick glimpse to the right side-bar shows you have twenty six fee paying advertisers, so why is the onus put on your readers to pay for your new camera?

  jimenaprospero wrote @ October 10, 2007 at 10:33

Hi, Steve,
Yes, I can be sarcastic and yes, it is frustrating. Yes, you have the right to refuse, of course; yes, the crossword is probably a good idea that doesn’t seem to be working (nothing new in that and not a major obstacle). And yes, I have 26 fee paying customers who, while not necessarily needing the advertising, are willing to support an enterprise they feel is doing the village, and thus them, some good (please note that the overwhelming majority are local, Spanish businesses). Their fees are, to say the least, nominal; if they weren’t I wouldn’t be asking for help to buy a new camera (the photos on the site, I keep getting told, are an important reason for looking at it).
But let me ask you, and the rest of our readers, a couple of questions: What if anything do you get out of JimenaPulse? If the answer is nothing much, then how come the site gets an average of almost 100 hits, or nearly 70 visits (for those who don’t know it, the difference is in the amount of time spent on the site, and not always reflected in the blog’s statistics available to the reader) per day. Have you any idea of the amount of time it takes to translate most of the local news (if you want to call it that) and get it posted? And, probably more important, what is it about the majority of expats that prevents them/us from active participation (i.e. comments, for instance)?
Okay, nobody asked me to create the site, but I am committed to it, like it or not, because I happen to love the place where I have chosen to live and want to give something back, and frankly, I am all too often embarrassed by that very lack of participation that I not only see myself but that I hear about, usually pejoratively, from the people who make up the population of Jimena.
I’m sorry if you have taken my comment personally and I’m grateful to you for giving me the chance to raise the matter in what I hope will be a debate.
Watch this space, Steve, as I know you do – for which I am also grateful.


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