Our final edition for this year and for what we hope has been a good 2010 for everyone.
Since the last news page we have gone right in with both feet and have commenced two new nurse histories
Since our last news page we have added our latest nurse history - Sister Marjorie Earley - which has been generally very well received by all who have made comment. If you didn't see/receive the forum notice the link is here. We are also proceeding with our next nurse history and have already collected much supporting material which is going to take some little time to compile. Not the easiest way to collect nursing history - it would perhaps be easier just to collect nurses - but then where could we keep them? Build a hospital perhaps!? No, nurse histories it must be...
Being Christmas it would be ever so nice to be able to kick off with a competition. Last year we were able to reward one or two no doubt happy competition winners with some very nice badges - and a copy of the DVD film 'Atonement'. This year we don't have a bountiful Santa sack so we are leaving the competition until our January 2011 news page.
One thing that must be said (before merry Christmas!) concerns our forum membership. It is growing slowly but surely, and every member is treasured, but sometimes the registration process is more lengthly than need be. All that is required is a user name and a valid email address. There are various mechanisms used to keep even that data safe - you can, for example, choose to hide your email address from view, but it must still be valid. Entering 'Jotmail' instead of 'Hotmail' could result in rejection of a membership.
Spammers also use several techniques in their attempts to join forums - one of which is almost unbelievable user names. The final arbiter here is human (very!) please, keep the user name simple - your dog, cat or even parrot are good sources. Or just use your own, it was good enough for your parents!!
Member Photograph Galleries.
Are still accumulating at a very reasonable pace. The 'National'
galleries now contain 2799 nursing/hospital badge photographs encompassing
all areas of the UK; 328 photographs (buildings/people/ephemera); and 48
photographs of nurse uniforms, both civilian and military; and 2423 badge
photographs. Have a quick
glimpse of the two latest badges:-
(Logged-in members can click images to enlarge).
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Gravesend Hospital, Kent. | National
Galleries - Latest Member Uploads All photographic rights 'nursesue' |
Essex County Council. NA Training. |
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The galleries are becoming a
small on-line museum and are adding to our knowledge of nursing history quite
nicely, thanks to our contributors. It is available to anyone who cares to
register as a member - a very simple process. All is free...
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The site forum - Membership and Visitors.
In January 2007 we opened the forum for business. I new topic; 4
replies; 2 new members; and 5 unique visitors!!
The current situation is
just a
little different. At December 2010 we now have 184 topics'; and 927 posts from
234
members. Not too bad for a history site, but since this one deals with
nurses, nursing and hospitals we still have some way to go. We have that
in hand. So far we have still not sought to openly promote the site. Our
preference has always been to ensure quality and more importantly, 24/7
availability. We seem to have achieved that...
Our November 2010 visitors. 8146 (unique) visits. 25940 pages served up.
A year on year increase in visits of well over 55.32% compared with the same period
last year (2009). Very nice - But then your worth it!!.
Worldwide.. Certainly our visitors are wide ranging - from 44
countries worldwide... Australia & New Zealand and Canada are well represented
in addition to the UK and USA. There are also some more esoteric sounding
countries - China; Russia; Cayman Islands; Japan; Malaysia; plus Romania and
Spain.
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