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Just to update people: after last night's meeting it has been decided to press ahead with starting up the new service. I'll keep people informed as things progress.
Adam
Dear fellow bird bloggers,
Regards
Adam & Jason
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Birds
Proposed New Oxon Sightings Service
Just to update people: after last night's meeting it has been decided to press ahead with starting up the new service. I'll keep people informed as things progress.
Adam
Dear fellow bird bloggers,
Jason and I are delighted at how successful this blog has been: it only works because people actively post sightings and it's great how well used the blog is. In fact it's become the de facto main sightings report service in the county which is really fantastic and I'm sure we all appreciate just how useful it is as a centre for county sightings.
However, it has been noted that it's not so easy to get the sightings from the blog into the OOS database at the end of each month and there is even talk about someone having to take on this task to ensure that records aren't missed. With this issue in mind I'd like to make a proposal to you all about starting up a new sightings service which would run alongside and which would complement this blog. The service is the Going Birding one designed by Marek Walford and which is already being used by Berks, Bucks and Hants. You can see how it works by looking at Berkshire for example. This is a well tried and tested sighting service which does everything that you'd expect in an easy and intuitive way and the records can be exported at the end of the month into the OOS database.
What I am proposing is that Marek sets up an Oxon version for us (which he can do very quickly) and which we can then use in addition to the blog to log our sightings for export at the end of each month to the OOS database. At present some of us log sightings with the OOS site in addition to the blog and others send in a spreadsheet to Jon Uren at the end of each month and I expect others do neither. I personally feel that if we had a better sightings service then more people are likely to log sightings but I'd like some feedback as to whether this would actually be the case.
One advantage of Marek's site is that it wouldn't be exclusive to any club so we'd get far more county sightings posted from e.g. non OOS members, widening the net of what gets reported. I've spoken to Ian Lewington about this idea and he's very much in favour of it.
So what I would like to know from people is whether you like this idea and whether you'd use it as a complement to this blog. I suggest the easiest way is if people make comments to this posting so that we can see how people feel about it. I've made a comment to get things started.
Regards
Adam & Jason
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