SJB Network Blog

Our recent work has been revolving mainly around our Haunted England Search Engine/Directory website, here are a list of some of the changes:

+ Tweaked Design

+ Added more sponsorship plans to allow deeplinking to help sites get better search engine result.

+ We’re also now allowing submissions to multiple categories for certain sponsored options.

+ Tag clouds have been added and more keywords will be placed as time goes on.

Other Work:

We’ve now set up a new website specifically aimed at support for all websites within the SJB Network including paranormal times, this is for technical and general support not for questions regarding hauntings or the paranormal, any submitted tickets regarding those topics will be directed to http://sjbowers.co.uk to choose a website within our network which may further assist them.

All forms on the various websites we run will eventually be set up to go into the support desk.

To use our support desk go to the following URL:

http://support.sjbowers.co.uk

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Nothing major really, but it seemed we had a few websites, and no where clear to list them all correctly so what we did is made some where.

http://sjbowers.co.uk

You’ll find RSS feeds from the network sites, links to all the websites and even websites implemented by us on behalf of other organisation if they choose to be listed.

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Well it seemed this blog was gather dust so bear with us a moment whilst we just blow it off……….

ohh errrr.

So what have we not been blogging about recently then, well not a great deal there’s been work going on behind the scenes but nothing to shout about so please bare with us through this mundane blog.

Well we’ve recently been commissioned by the UKBPA to assist with the building of their brand spanking, not even opened yet, never seen before website, I say commissioned but I suppose we’re kind of like sponsors in a way.

Please note though we are not members of the BPA and have not applied for membership.

Another website was recently launched, this one being the personal home of Mr Timothy Bowers, you can find his rants and raves at  http://auroral.co.uk and it’s not strictly paranormal, in fact it’s probably rarely paranormal

Although our radio station is ready to launch and raring to go, we’re going to hold off official launch till 2008, hopefully by that time we will have some other individuals or groups coming forward to run their own live weekly paranormal or spiritual show.

As mentioned in a previous blog our productions were also delayed until 2008, giving us time to concentrate on other area’s at the moment.

Two other websites are in the making and we’re in desperate need of some hard working literate volunteer, although for some reason it’s proving hard to find them, if anyone can hear us and feels capable of documenting history, research, etc, then please step forth into the light.

Well it’s nearly Christmas………………………………………………….

And thats about all to say today.

Tune in next time for another thrill instalment of boredom……………..

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I was going to create a personal website on Paranaormal Times, but then thought about it and realised that the majority of my posts may not be paranormal related, or if they are they may not be the most pleasant ones. I sat a pondered for a while and then thought sod it a new site it is.

Personally I see this as an 18+ site, strong language is used, and I wouldn’t bother looking either if your easily offended.

Here it is: http://auroral.co.uk/

And yeah I will share some of my gripes on there, it’s not all bad though, honest.

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Well we’re still streaming and it’s still going well, so we now need to consider going live and becoming official.

We’ve received some feed back from people around the world, not as much as hoped, but consider we really haven’t promoted it a great deal then it’s to be expected.

As mentioned in another blog we’re now syndicating the Haunted Voices Radio Network most of their shows are early morning for the Brits, however one of them does broadcast at 9pm (GMT), this show is hosted by Mark Turner of Ghost Finders Scotland.

Confirmed schedule so far.

• Mondays

Paranormal Podcast Day - 16:00 (4pm) GMT to midnight (00:00am) GMT

Paranormal podcast day will feature various podcasts created individuals and paranormal organisations from around the world, these will cover a vast amount of topics. All podcasts will be randomly played throughout the day, between the specified times.

•  Tuesdays

No  Current Schedule

• Wednesdays

**LIVE** Haunted Voices Radio - HVRN - 02:00 (2am)  GMT to 04:00 (4am) GMT - Hosted by Todd Bates

**LIVE** Banter - SJB Network - 19:00 (7pm) GMT to 21:00 (9pm) GMT - Hosted by Kane Pippin & Tim Bowers

**LIVE** The Paranormal Zone - HVRN -  21:00 (9pm) GMT to 22:00 (10pm) GMT - Hosted by Mark Turner & Lisa Lundey

• Thursdays

No  Current Schedule

• Fridays

**LIVE** PsyTalk - HVRN -  02:00 (2am) GMT to 04:00 (4am) GMT - Hosted by Star & Jessi Chaney

• Saturdays

**LIVE** Haunted Voices Radio - HVRN - 02:00 (2am)  GMT to 04:00 (4am) GMT - Hosted by Todd Bates

• Sundays 

No  Current Schedule

+ 1 Possible - Awaiting Final Confirmation.

So what happens on the days with no shows? 

Well this is kinda up to you guys and gals out there.  If you or your own group/club have got an idea for your own show and fancy a shot at presenting then get in touch for more details.

There are contact forms on the SJB radio website for you to get in touch should you wish.

www.sjbowers.com

Anything new?

Yeah sure, if you check out the SJB radio site you should now notice that you have a few ways to listen in, click the option of your choice.

Winamp - This will play from your computer and requires winamp to be installed.

Windows Media Player - Plays on-line from our website but requires the player to be installed on your computer.

Real Player -  Plays on-line from our website but requires the player to be installed on your computer.

Flash Player - Will play in your browser providing it supports flash which the majority do now.

Well  we may have a network manager, we’re speaking with him soon, should he accept (which he kinda already has), then he will deal with the schedule, details and chat through the SJB live shows.

We also have a phone system installed with both UK and American numbers, when you call these you’ll be presented with a list of options, including to call into live shows when the hosts permit.

www.sjbowers.com

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Ok well we’re officially open now and a press release was made on our networked websites, so your now able to sign up and start your very own community today.

You know I wrote an article regarding the launch about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and set the release date for the 30th August 2007. I’d totally forgot about it until I logged on to Ghosts-UK and realised we were now launched from the automated article release :roll:  :cool:

Oh dear lol.

Our next site will be the SJB Paranormal & Alternate web radio station syndicating shows from the Haunted Voices Radio Corporation over from the US, as well as our own of course.

If you interested in being involved, perhaps as a guest or even running your own show then please let us know.

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Nahh nothing paranormal really, just a bloody virus.

I was working away, minding my own business and then bam!!! yup I got a virus on my main computer, couldn’t use window update, system restore, couldn’t install a virus checker or use the existing one, couldn’t do sod all with my computer.

I tried booking the computer into a VD clinic, but they said humans only, the bloody racists.

Thanks to that we’ve now lost about 48hrs of work as I had to do total format of the system, re-install, lost a load of data, backed up what I could though. Lucky enough most of the stuff was already backed up on a raid network drive. I spent hours trying to sort the problem first before giving up and resorting to a total format.

Lucky enough it was also just my system and no other team members, otherwise we’d be even further behind.

Well anyways I’m back.

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Well, ermmmm what can I say, where should I start, I’d say the beginning normally but then this blog would be 5 and a half hours worth of chat.

OK well here goes, for the last 5 and a half hours I’ve been on the phone to Todd M. Bates, the President, Director and Radio Host for the HVRN Corporation for those of you wondering who the hell Todd Bates is, if you’ve never heard of him, well he’s the guy behind Haunted Voices Radio.

Yes we chatted for over 5 hours, mind you my friends always say I can talk the hind legs of a donkey, and I’m sure Todd’s now thinking “ouch my ears ache, ‘Mental note to self’ never call Tim again’

We talked about all sorts and not just the paranormal, which was very cool, I think both him and I a rather like minded, he seems a pretty cool guy.

So why did I contact him first?

Well if your following this blog you will be aware we’re looking for people to host shows on our radio, we looking for quality content and from what I heard of the Haunted Voices Radio, I likes it (yes I said likes and not liked ;-)) So I asked him if we could syndicate his shows, and ohh boy there are a few shows.

He agreed which is excellent, means we’re closer to launching the station that I first thought.

Who paid for the long phone bill?

Well the phone bill wasn’t long, it was only one call and anyway, no one, lol Todd uses some service to allow him to call the UK free of charge, which is pretty darn cool.

So what shows will be on the SJB Network?

Well rather than me right them out, I’m gonna be my usual lazy self and post the banners for their shows, lol.

Take a note of the last one, the presenter is Mark Turner, some of you may know him from Ghost Finders - Scotland Ghost Investigations - www.ghostfinders.co.uk Now I’ve not listened to Mark Turner but apparently it makes for an interesting show, so I’ll be sure to tune in when he’s on next.

For the UK listeners please note this times in the banners above are CST and not GMT or BST.

So this is interesting stuff, and I can’t wait to get some testing on the go, I’m really excited about this.

I was also pleasantly surprised that Todd has invited me to appear on one of his shows, next weekend, I believe this will be 4AM on Sunday morning, which should be 12th August 2007, hmmm he wants me to talk about Ouija boards, well this will be my first ever show on air, I’m gonna S**T a brick

Well we talked a lot more, but I’ll keep this short, and end the blog here.

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Rather than having to check here for updates, we’ve now installed a plugin that will allow us to write admin messages, these messages will appear on the dashboard of your sites admin area.

So when we get some new themes on here, or do some site updates, you’ll know as soon as you log into your admin area.

Don’t worry these messages will not be seen from the front end of your website.  :wink:

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There is not 100% way of blocking spammers, but there are measures you can take to deter them or complicate things for spam bots (automated ones) and we try our best to stop them ruining peoples fun.

If you notice a site that contains spam, illegal content, explicit content like porn, or anything that shouldn’t really be on a paranormal and spiritual website then just let one of us know, it will be removed.

Anyway the purpose of the blog is to say that if a site is deemed spam, we don’t delete it, we just mark it as spam so it’s not accessible to search engines or users, more like archived for future reference should legal action be taken, at first this still showed there updates on our home page, even if it wasn’t accessible it was annoying, well we’ve changed and updated the code thanks to a chap called Andrew.  :grin:  :cool:

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