A good turnout of Nairn’s business community tonight at the Dunbar Golf Club as the revamped nairnscotland.co.uk was re-launched in an effort to sell Nairn’s attributes to the world in an innovative concept designed by some talented teenagers from Nairn Academy.
The gathering listened to short presentations from Sheena Baker, Gemma Hill, Steve Westbrook, Gregor Munro and the Michaels (Bolan and Green) and of course the students from Nairn Academy and their IT instructor Sharon Sharkey.
Some of it was a bit familiar when it came down to Nairn’s pluses and minuses but it was the desire to go forward and “go past the talking into the enabling” which was palpable tonight. In the past it has been easy to come away from such events shell-shocked by “death by powerpoint” presentations as the worthies read the script and the wheel gets reinvented – this time cynicism cells just didn’t stir – it felt good and added to the other initiatives out there in Nairn where a whole new wave of people seem to be willing to step forward for the Common Good of all it may be that we have finally turned the corner and are really heading down the launch pad at last. Much will rest on the proposed Business Improvement District that the two Michaels are driving forward and that one too could be in the skies in early 2017 if all goes to plan.
You can get onto the revamped website here. Images from this evening below.
Individual images here.
15 comments:
Let's try to stay upbeat on this!
Great new website - hearty congrats to Nairn Academy youngsters - and to those in the business community driving things forward.
What no stunning photos featured By The Gurn photographer? or any other local photographers Mary Hemsworth, Iain Fairweather, Ian MacRae, Dave Freeman, Jack Rutherford, The Photo Guy, Darren Smith, Nairn Camera Club etc etc etc.
Site must work well then 5d if that is all there is to complain about.
'Nairn awaits' seems apt.
Currently Nairn is awaiting...
A bypass, new social housing, new waste water and sewer system, new harbour for cruise liners, revamp of High Street, new Chairman and directors for NFC, powers devolved locally from Inverness, better grass cutting, Murd's bridge, speed controls in Harbour Street, more GP's, community fireworks on Nov 5th, repair to the Bailey bridge etc.
Unfortunately Highland Council is a £1B in debt so Nairn certainly will be waiting
Who said anything about complaining Graisg? was The Gurn consulted regarding maybe giving some photographs to be used on website? & if not why not.
Nairnawaits - is this an anagram?
Maybe folk who want to see their photos in lights as it were will be able to submit them at some point to the new website?
I think it should be called Nairnawaitsbruce and then you could have naIRNawaitsBRUce ;-)
Lovely site
@ 5D MK 3
If you actually look at the new website you'll see that several weel kent Nairn photographers are attributed
All images are copyright of the photographers, including: David Brownless, David Shillabeer, Cutter photography,Kenny Macleod, Kirstin Grant.
There will be plenty of new photographs added to the site as it develops... and anyone wanting to contribute is more than welcome to do so.
I made the decision to limit the number of folks who were initially asked to contribute , mainly as we didn't need a massive amount to begin with. Other people have also kindly offered the use of their images, and I will take them up on those offers as soon as possible.
Having a library of photographs to dip into is really useful as it will help prevent the site looking exactly the same over weeks , months and years.
There is a gallery to be added and some high res images too, for use as desktop backgrounds....
and I quite expected a degree of negativity, so some of the comments come as no surprise... such things are as inevitable as the well known fact that 'les ours vont dans les bois pour une merde'.....
The Academy pupils and staff worked hard on the concept..and I think it looks good... No , that's wrong. It does look good
It looks clean, crisp and professional.
It's been a positive experience and I feel privileged to be a part of it and thank everyone that has helped , and made offers of help, for their support :)
Can anybody tell me why wasnt this advertised locally in the local newspaper or on Facebook or The Gurn From NURN for any of the public to attend or for any local buisness that might be interested. If i had known i would of attended and supported it and maybe offer my help to promote this as its a great idea to promote Nairn in all aspects. Nairn is struggling like all towns and citys we should all be helping each other to promote sutch a great town that could do so more to benefit itself.
Great week to go live with this just as Nairn loses the status of the cleanliness of the water on our beaches
@ E.Coli let's just look on the bright side for a minute or two :-)
Turning off comments on this thread folks, not much in the way of debate coming in now. Thanks for all contributions so far
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