Oli and Jono are two Essex residents currently are doing their bit to save the world through the by reducing their carbon emmissions and making a significant reduction to their ecological footprint. They have their own website and were even been featured on BBC Breakfast news this morning!

You can find out more about them and their mission from the link on their essexinfo.net site here(http://www.essexinfo.net/oli_and_jono_save_the_world/)

We are offering a morning workshop to community groups using essexinfo.net. It will be held in County Hall on Nov 21st from 10:00 -12:00 pm. The session will include some tips to help develop your sites. It will also provide an opportunity to ask the team questions, offer feedback and meet other people using essexinfo.net. Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided.

There will be limited places, so if you would like to attend please book giving your name, organisation and contact email/phone to the Support Team, Tel: 01245 436559 or email support@essexinfo.net

We will be arranging a similar session for Parish & Town Councils in the near future.

We have just added a new Good Practice Guide to our help section (http://www.essexinfo.net/help/good-practice-guide/). This provides links to sites which we feel have made good use of certain features of essexinfo.net. We hope it will give people who are starting out good ideas and help people who already have a site develop theirs further.

This is a guide we hope to keep updated regularly and we like to do this with your help. If you come across a page which you feel is put together well or if you think some of the pages on your site make good use of essexinfo.net features lets us know (support@essexinfo.net) and we'll try to include them in the guide. 

There are now over 300 sites on essexinfo.net! well done everyone for helping our community grow.

In other statistical news last month we achieved our largest number of individual visits yet with over 3450. Some even from far flung places such as Hungary and Australia!

If you're a webmaster of an essexinfo.net site you can see how many visitors you had this year by logging on to your site and clicking on 'Manage your website' and then 'Site Statistics'. This will give a detailed statistical breakdown of how many unique visitors, visits and hits you've had this year on a month to month basis. They also include detailed information for the current month such as which country your visitors have come from, which are your most popluar pages, how many people have bookmarked you, which websites have links to yours and much more.

Recently more and more councillors from across Essex have set up their own sites on essexinfo.net. These include County, District and Parish Councillors Most of these sites include information on each councillors areas, their roles within the council, contact information and even photographs of the councillors!

You can find Councillors on essexinfo.net by going to the community A-Z (http://www.essexinfo.net/directory/) and selecting Councillors from the Categories section.   

We have now added 4 new discussion forums to the site available at http://www.essexinfo.net/community/discussion/.

The new forums added are Getting Started, Adding Standard Pages, Creating Content and a General forum for all things essexinfo.net related.

These forums are for users to raise comments and concerns for discussion with other members. They also allow members to help each other out and provide each other with any hints and tips the may have on particular areas of essexinfo.net