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Recent Additions to our website during 2007

Listed here are some relatively new features of our website which you may not be aware of. We are always developing new features which we hope will be useful and we welcome any feedback.

eRecruitment
The council's new electronic recruitment system allows you to search and apply for jobs completely online. You can save your application form details and continue it later at your convenience.

Search Improvements - with Google!
The installation of our very own Google box means that we can bring you the kind of powerful searches you are used to on the world wide web. Almost every page of our website has the Search Box displayed prominently, or you can choose to search on a specific catalogue of information. Choose from: A-Z; Web Pages; or Council Committee Agendas, Minutes and Reports.

New Media Gallery - with videos!
Our new Media Gallery is an in-house development which brings you not only photographs, but sound and video too. Try our streaming video presentations from the links on relevant web pages, or from the gallery itself.

New websites - The Guide and Community Planning
The Guide website is the first part of the visiteastayrshire portal. All the Arts and Theatre and Museums events are listed here, with pictures, information and streaming video.
The new Community Planning website is hosted by the Council on behalf of the community Planning Partnership. The site is available for anyone to browse but has private areas for members, who can also contribute and collaborate in the strategic planning process.

Amplify 07
In its second year, Amplify; the East Ayrshire festival for young people will see a whole range of events and shows taking place in various venues celebrating: art, theatre music, heritage & dance. There is also a secure online vote taking place for 'Unsigned - battle of the bands'.

Mutual Exchange Forum
The Mutual Exchange Forum is available only to online Customer Account holders who are Council tenants. You can leave messages for other tenants who may wish to exchange houses and discuss the exchange with other tenants and council staff.

Google Maps
Following on from the success of our web-GIS mapping features, we are now rolling out Google maps across the site. The first example is in the Find My Nearest section of the site, which allows you to find information of all Council facilities across the area. the Google maps should provide a faster and feature-rich service and represents a best-value solution for the Council.

Browsealoud
This year we introduced the Browsealoud service onto our website. If you have any views on this we will be happy to hear from you.

Energy Advice in the home
Feel you need some energy advice? Our new pages, including video presentations should help.

Future Museum
Future Museum is a partnership between East Ayrshire Council, Dumfries and Galloway Council, North Ayrshire Council, South Ayrshire Council and the independent museums of the south-west of Scotland. The project has been funded by the Regional Development Challenge Fund which is funded by the Scottish Executive and administered by the Scottish Museums Council on its behalf.

RSS Feeds
East Ayrshire Council's RSS feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news from your local Council. Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news and features delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site? Well now you can, thanks to RSS.

View your Recycling / Bin Uplift Calendar

Enter your street and town or property name where you live to find out not only what day your bin gets collected but also what colour of bin you should present at the kerbside.

James Mair Newmilns Photographic Collection
On 17th October 2007, the counicl hosted an official launch of this important and historically significant image collection. The originals have been deposited with Ayrshire Archives for safe keeping, but all the images from the collection are available online in our gallery.

Webcam Improvements
Our Moving webcams are almost unique in the UK. They continue to prove popular with visitors to the website and potential tourists to the area. The new model cams provide even better video streams and we have installed moving-image Wedding Cams which will be available on the website soon.

In Your Area
This feature will accompany the Find My Nearest pages and provides a collation of several silos of data. It wll allow you to find out the information relevant to Your Area via an address search on your home address on our Property Gazetteer. In technical terms, it enables a 'spatial' search for information and facilities. It will be built on as we proceed to categorise more data with spatial references.

Coming Soon - Connect2 - improved eBookings
You will already be familiar with our online electronic booking system, for example allowing you to book a Registrars appointment online. The next release of this system is almost ready, introducing improved Events and Leisure bookings.

Coming Soon - CCG and Local Office Service Improved
Our Customer Contact Gateway will soon have the benefit of Business Accounts, allowing local businesses to perform Non-Domestic Rates enquiries.
In addition we are enhancing our Customer Relationship Management system's contact recording features to help us co-ordinate more efficiently across Council services.  This will reduce information duplication and the number of contacts required to resolve an issue.