France

So, earlier today I was looking though the 'Pete Helmore Archives' and found some of my pictures from France 6-8 years ago( I have now forget when I went away but it is in that range)! So seen as I have not blogged for ages, for few reasons, I have been busy with stuff and also I couldn’t be bothered to type this ha.

So here are some of the pictures. Oh just before I shut up, I was on one of these 'home or away' house programs with video of us canoeing down the main river in the small French village with a tiny population, and only 2.7% of them speak English. People who know me will know that I have a big hate of people who go away abroad, but the places they go everyone is English!! WHAT IS THE POINT?




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Is Anyone There? Well EMMMM YES!!!

Hello!!

So I have had lots of emails from .... Myself!! No only joking. I have had lots of emails from people asking where have I been, I think I said this in the last blog post so I should just copy and paste it.. Well anyway the reason I have not blogged is.... wait for it.... wait even longer.... well I just haven't :):):)

To tell everyone the truth I really have not had time to blog, there has been lots of things going on and there has been lots of times I have thought to myself 'I should blog this' but just didn't do that.

So what’s going on to make me so busy? You may ask!

Well as everyone knows I am involved in the local radio station and present 2 shows on the station (1 of which is a 'mainstream' show) but some people would say well doing 5 hours of talking rubbish and playing rubbish songs what have been over played by every radio station in the UK is not hard... Well then you’re correct, and that’s all they do on radio 1.

At the moment writing this blog and just thinking about what I just wrote there. Why would I want to work at a radio station what does something I described as crap... well I don’t know maybe as it is one of the biggest radio stations in the UK. If anyone from the BBC is reading this well the last 2 paragraphs I was made to write;)

Anyway as I was trying to move on to say at the local radio station I don’t just do shows (And let me add my shows are very good you should listen to them, the links will be at the bottom of the page) I do lots of other stuff there... All of which cannot be named as I’m sure all the hours I put in would be against a law as of my age or something.

There is a statement i hear nearly every week from all different people "Without you, this place would fall apart" Well good!

But no on the serious note I am working on lots of exciting projects at the radio station, I have recently joined up with Matt Clifford who presents the Drive Time show and Jodie, or as Matt calls her 'The one what doesn't speak.... Long story and I'm not going into it!. so we are planning lots of things some of which include outside broadcast which should be fun. Well I will say I am having fun when I have made everything work and link back to the station, at the end of the day if everything does not work it will be my fault. Although if something doesn’t work I will blame it on someone else...

Moving on from the radio station let me tell you about... guess.... another radio station. Yes I am being serious!

So I have been working with 5 'Youth' radio stations in the UK 1 of these is in Cornwall and another in Scotland. Well because I setup one of the latest online radio stations which to this day is doing very well I won’t give them a plug as people will get annoyed with my endless plugging, but if you want to visit it just ask me for the link. So the company which has taken on the role of making these 5 Youth radio stations work and make money has appointed me into 'Technical Project Leader' the title I give myself is THE BOSS!!!

I have also been working on a new online social media client, for a company in the US. The social media client will be like twitter but for a smaller, safer community.

We are working on something which will work along the US and the UK schools, think of it as something when you were 10 you had a school project where you had a pen pal, with someone in another country well the truth is it was probably your teacher.

So this social media site will be a private hosted site which means the only people able to access it is the people with the correct login details. It will be for age range 9-16. The site will have features like pictures and instant chat. IT will enable students to do the thing of talking to someone else in another country but do it the modern way. The world is moving on and I think people need to realize that.

Oh also we (Well my mum) is awaiting a bran new car which is currently being built. So for the next 5 weeks I have a private driver!! Makes me feel like I am someone who I am not!

So moving on as this has been a long blog post, thanks for reading....

Oh before I go, just as reading this though to check it over one of the worst songs ever just came on my play list... Don't Look back in anger by The Wurzels.... Well it could be worse it could be classical music (Private joke)

Pete

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Where Have I Been?? Ask No More!

So I have been getting lots of emails and @mentions asking where I have been. Well if you follow me on twitter @PeteHelmore (Like my plug there) you will see I am still around. To tell you the truth I have really not had time to blog at the moment.

The reason for this is because I am currently working on lots of little and big projects in the UK and the US. I can’t go into too much detail as I will get told off by the people running it. But basically I’m working on lots of ‘Youth Web Projects which brings media and web together.

So moving on from that as I don’t want to go into too much detail.

I can tell you about my little projects though, so as you all know I run the website www.needtechhelp.co.uk . This website has gone from strength to strength. I’m really proud of the website and everyone who helps me run it (I will give them a plug later).

The website started as a little bit of fun back a year or two ago. It was setup to offer people like you and me Tech Help for Free. I never realized it would take off to the extent it did.

 In the first week it was running it had 5 Emails (Bad I know) Well two months after the website had been running it was getting 200-300 views a month and around 70 emails a week.

Now the website is getting about 2000 unique views a month and around 300 emails a week.

At Christmas last year we hit our target number of getting 1578 emails in one week, we reckon this is due to people getting all these new presents and then getting stuck on how to use them (Happens to the best of us).

So I’m trying to focus a lot of my time working on the site and planning ahead for the future. Some people would have noticed recently I did a re-brand. I spent 3 days working on the new look and now happy with it, a big thank you goes out to all of so many people who have commented on the new look about how much they like it. I’m really happy about this.

Now time for the plug:

I would like to say thank you to the website sponsors who without them we would not be where we are at the moment.

The show sponsors are:

1, Sharmar Publications are paying for the running cost of the equipment for TechHelp24/7, check there website at http://bit.ly/7t82Iv.

2, Custon Covers are paying for the website hosting cost, check there website at http://bit.ly/8RvqmA

3, Frank James Bailey has helped TechHelp24/7 by doing the jingles for us, check his website at http://bit.ly/6Hgkza

4, Air Media helped us produce some jingles and recordings check there website at http://bit.ly/60cKA2

Now time to thank all the people working with me on Tech Help 24/7

1, Ben has been with us from the start going back to the days when I use to broadcast on internet radio stations, Ben use to help produce the shows. Ben now is co-owner of TechHelp 24/7.

2, Jake has been with us for the last 6months his role is just helping to answer all the email we get.

3, Lauren has been with us for about 3 months and like Jake she is just helping to answer the emails.

4, Tobie joined the same time as Lauren. He is going to be taking on a bigger role soon but shhhh this is still in the planning.

5, Brendon is the newest member of the team and has only been with us for 3 weeks. At the moment he has been helping to manage the email accounts but will soon be helping me and Ben manage the website.

6, Emma has been with us for the last 4-5 months, and is working on a new Social Media website, more info soon....

7, Sam joined about 2 months ago and is helping Emma with the new Social Media website.

8, Reece came along about 4 months ago and is working with Emma and Sam on the Social Media website. Reece will be helping to integrate Facebook and Twitter into the new website.

Last but not least, Jamie joined about 8 weeks ago and at the moment he is currently working on improving how we answer emails.

Now all that is out of the way. Everyone should be happy.

So just to finish this long blog off, I am still here, catch up with what I’m doing by following me on Twitter @PeteHelmore.

I’m also on air Fridays 6-8pm Sundays 12-3pm www.somervalleyfm.co.uk or 97.5fm.

Like I said earlier in the blog, I’m working on the website lots and we are improving email answering systems to increase our overall pro look. At the moment we aim to answer all email between 24-48 hours.

If you have any feedback please send it to admin@needtechhelp.co.uk

I look forward to your response.

Once again a huge thank you for taking time out of your life to read this blog...

 

Pete Helmore

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