Andy D'Agorne

End of the free lunch!

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Not only have council sandwiches before full council meetings gone to save money, the readmyday edemocracy project has had its funding pulled, with all members being given a few days notice in which to decide either to stump up a significant annual subscription or move out to another blogging platform. Is anyone out there bothered about this? Of course the government wants you to engage with the electorate, but anything innovative or developmental isnt going to be funded any more. Ah well it was good while it lasted!

Read My Day was originally funded through a government grant which ends on 1 January 2011.

This email explains what this means for you, as a registered Read My Day blogger, and also what your options are:

Option 1 - Stay with Read My Day
Read My Day is provided by a German company called 21Publish. 21Publish will offer subscriptions, with a 6-month plan for £99, or a 12-month plan for £149. You can choose whether you'd like to pay online by credit card, or by cheque or invoice.

Option 2 - Move to a free blogging platform:
You can move to another free blogging platform such as www.wordpress.com Wordpress is a free system, and is very easy to use.

Your blog name may change: If you chose to move to a new platform, the name of your blog will change if you currently have a read my day blog for example: www.readmyday.co.uk/yourname. You will not be able to retain your read my day address, and it's likely you'll end up with a new address like: www.yourname.wordpress.com However, if you currently have your own web address linked to your blog (for example www.myname.org) you'll be able to move this across.

If you want to move over past blogs from your existing Read My Day blog, this will take a little longer .. and remember you'll have to copy blogs over in date order (working from oldest to newest) or they will copy over in the wrong order.

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