Almost all projects were pulled off in less than a day, with a great many in just a couple of hours. Site owners can also develop their projects using a powerful array of behind the scenes tools.

We have a host of pipeline projects that are taking longer, but will they be better? Well who knows.

• The Bakery Dunbar
• Tyne and Esk Writers
• Scottish Participatory Initiatives
• Fashion School
• Innerwick Village
• Feed Your Family From 50 Miles
• Visit Dunbar
• Art Root: Open Studios September 2011
• WeeGreen Search
• Buy Local Food

So what are the ingredients of success? It’s not a recipe but a menu:

1. a simple plan or well-formed idea of whom you are trying to appeal to
2. some ready made content from an existing site or from your own promo literature
3. decent quality graphics (or your website template will look like the others)
4. high quality images (or your website will look home-made)
5. time to think and time to write (a couple of dedicated hours to do your bit can be a struggle find, so some projects fail simply due to this)
6. experience of web publishing (but not necessarily making html websites or using dreamweaver etc)
7. freedom to publish (if your committee can’t take decisions or won’t delegate, your website may never get off the ground)
8. a budget (we will ensure a little goes a long way, but if you have a larger budget we won’t delay your project for ever in the pursuit of absolute perfection and full integration!)

Oh and here is the rest of the list … (it was way too long for the front page!)

• Dunbar Community Energy Company
• Contact your politician
• Whats Stopping You?
• Friends of Winterfield
• Lothian Solar
• Dunbar Fairtrade Town
• Dunbar Arts, Crafts and Produce Market
• Worms Work
• East Lammermuir
• Friends of John Muir’s Birthplace
• Neighbours Together
• Connecting Dunbar 2011
• Dunbar Shore & Harbour Neighbourhood Group
• Dunbar 2025
• Susie Goodwin
• Dunbar’s Science Festival
• Dunbar Noir
• Dunbar in Bloom
• Dunbar Holiday Let
• Connecting Dunbar – Local Travel Survey 2011
• Dunbar Cycling Group
• Kiva Club
• Catherine King Pottery
• Future Proof Community Interventions
• Incredibly Edible Dunbar & District
• Dunbar Community Council
• Business in OurLocality
• Nonplus! Website Hosting & Development
• Ourlocality Plus!
• For Beginners
• Dunbar Community Bakery
• The Pishwanton Project
• SpareWheels
• philiprevellpottery
• Dunbar Lyric Group
• We Love OurLocality
• Local Resilience Action Plan
• Carbon Neutral Stenton
• Dunbar Writers
• Dunbar Primary Parent Council

Every so often a new and eye-catching online application appears on the scene. In the parallel world of the iPhone, they can take only seconds to learn and a seconds to forget, before they are consigned to the dustbin.

Nevertheless just because something takes minutes to learn and no more than a few weeks to master, doesn’t mean it’s no good. Yammer the enterprise social network is a nice example, which came free and easy. Simplicity or ease of use are important if you want your people to use your shiny new application. Basecamp is another one characterised by app simplicity.

Now Insight.ly isn’t quite as free as it used to be and won’t work as a freestanding programme (it plugs – rather neatly it must be said – into google applications), but you can be up and running in a matter of minutes. The basic setup is straightforward and you do not need a complex masterplan to get started. You probably do need to be willing to try different approaches that are likely to suit your (client’s) way of working.

Like Highrise, from 37 Signals – the people that made Basecamp, you can email stuff to Insight using bcc and fwd and contacts are automatically added if they do not exist.  On top of the contact management tools, there is a wide repertoire of project and task management functions that are a breeze to use and, perhaps, too easy abuse. I for one hate being ‘assigned’ things (now who was it that said lack of task control is a demotivator?) and it is too easy to use the app instead of email, phone or just talking to the colleague sitting next to you. While it lacks the ability to assign email correspondence to the projects directly via email, it is snap to do this within the application itself – provided you’ve not forgotten what you were doing 10 seconds ago.

So, to conclude, we have recently installed Insight for a group of 6 users in almost no time at all. Initial reactions have been positive, but we shall wait and see when the schools are back and pace of activity picks up.

The only downside that I can think of, apart from not being able to tailor the opportunities elements for a NFP organisation, is that if you wish to include an individual outside of the google apps network, but don’t want them to have access to your email and docs, well you can’t. And also, your admin takes up one of your paid user slots, which is a bore if your admin doesn’t work for you!

For example, almost 1300 individual comments about daily travel were received. Most of the household comments that were geocode-able are mapped on this website. These are simple but dynamic maps, so you can zoom in and out or use the yellow man to visit the location using Google Street View. And aggregate maps can be viewed on a topic basis.

Further information was also gathered from personal / family travel diaries. The Travel Diary data was summarised in Excel pivot tables and the data presented in a variety of formats on static maps. We re-published the Sankey style maps over on issuu.com, which has the ability to display large pdf files elegantly.