October 19, 2006 · 1 Comment
Unfortunately, Ummera Smoked Salmon, Chicken, Eel and Rashers won’t be at the market this Saturday; we are staffless!
However, I hope that this will be just a bref absence from the market; Ralph is in the UK, Alastair is visiting Farmleigh House in Dublin where several of his creations from Letterfrack are on display, and I have visitors, so…..
All being well either Ralph or Alastair will be manning the stall on the 28th as I am off to the Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre in Turin, Italy. If you enjoy your food and haven’t been to Salone del Gusto then you haven’t been anywhere! It is an asolute MUST! Tempt yourself – look at their web sites. You won’t be able to resist!
We are already taking orders for Christmas so do visit Ummera’s web site and get your orders in early. We can arrange for orders to be collected at the market on Saturdays.
Categories: BandonFarmersMarket · Ummera
Not too much wind, no rain and some sunshine.
Should be a good day.
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We accidentally had comments open on one of the permanent pages and received quite a critical comment from an anonymous person who did not like the idea of a blog rather than a “professionally” designed web-site. Unfortunately, when we turned off comments on that page, their comment and the reply were no longer visible. I’ll quote the important part of it here from the “ex-Microsoft professional” along with the reply:
My ex-boss would not be impressed with BLOG!!
……. and Blogging is for my 7 year son.
The reply I gave is as follows. Comments on this are of course welcome.
As an ex-Microsoft professional you’ve probably heard of Robert Scoble and his book “Naked Conversations” which I am reading right now. Two quotes from it caught my eye today:
Bill Gates, Chairman, referring to blogging in Microsoft: “You are letting people have a sense of the people here. You’re building a connection. People feel more part of this. Maybe they’ll tell us how we can better improve our products”
Steve Ballmer, CEO: “I think it is a great way for us to communicate to our customers and for customers, more importantly, to communicate with us”.
The reason standard static web sites are being replaced more and more by blogs is that it allows conversations to occur beyond physical boundaries and enables non-technical people to easily publish without the need for “professional” middle men.
The hope is that this blog will reflect the authentic voices of the market across the entire week rather than just Saturdays. It allows those who would love to come to find out what has happened and what will be happening wherever they are. Whilst that is possible with a traditional site, it requires far more effort from all involved.
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The next market is on tomorrow in the usual place. 10am to 2pm as always, rain or shine.
Categories: Admin · BandonFarmersMarket
