FaceBook, MPs, texting and voting...

Since the forum opened on the site, this blog has been sadly neglected. I never was one for diaries so it is quite an achievement to get this far!
To catch up..
Had photos done with our local MP, Alistair Birt, who is now a member (he paid privately and in full I should add and there is no indication it went through the office expenses!) and a true football fan. The video interview with him would have been perfect for the site had one of the team not decided to "moonie" in the background!
The story ran in a few publications which was great but one thing has become obvious - we need national coverage - BBC 5 Live, Talk Sport, National Papers and local TV are my next target to get the word out about the "social ownership" impact on football.

On to bigger things, myBUFC has been FaceBook-ed and there is now a group and application any FaceBook member can join and add to the page. Look up "mybufc" if you want to join and I'll see you there!

Match reports
Sometimes scores and detailed match reports are a little slow to get back to members and site visitirs SO... we are adding to the information one can get. I wrote a little application that allows someone to provide live reporting with the simplest use of a mobile phone.
Minute by minute text commentary, match stats and score will then be available whilst we all wait for the detailed reports to follow a day or so later.
Look out for the trial run this Saturday!

Player profiles
We are ploughing ahead with the team database which Chris and I hope to have available within a few days and will link to the match stats from above. It could also be the basis of scout reports in the future.

Voting
We need to encourage many of those who have subscribed to take part in this early stage so we are having some fun votes and will continue to feed team suggestions through to the management via the forums.

Right - just need another 4000 people now.