I am not exaggerating when I say, “Thank God we have a new website!” I am truly grateful to God for providing us with the funds (thanks to our friends at the Welsh Assembly), the skills (thanks to our friend Dan at the Church Website Design Project) and the content (thanks to those who have contributed). The importance of us having a dynamic and fresh website cannot be understated. The phrase, ‘I’ll Google it’ is so engrained in the psyche of everyone in my generation (and some of the generation before me) that I was desperate for us to have a good website. I can’t imagine what the generation after me, who are so internet savvy, thought of the fact that a youth organisation like ours didn’t have a website for Wales. What a relief it is then to finally have a website we can be proud of and that when that parent/young person rushes to Google (or any other search engine) and types ‘boys brigade Wales’ they will come to our website.
Having suitably emphasised the importance of having a web presence, please feel free to look around and comment on the site. We welcome all your feedback and will try and incorporate suggestions and ideas in the future to make it an evolving resource that is constantly improving. There is a forum for all registered leaders which will be a great way to communicate with people across Wales, there is masses of info on news, events and resources, loads of useful links to other websites and much, much more. Oh and if you are interested I am going to have a regular blog on here as well (if everyone’s doing it I thought I’d have a go!) so look out for my random streams of consciousness over the next few months.
Enjoy!
Ian Simpson