{"id":1967,"date":"2014-03-03T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2014-03-03T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:40:33","slug":"p-s-about-the-bid-business-improvement-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":"P.S. about the BID (Business Improvement District)…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when I thought it was OK to close this blog, up pops a mention in Streetlife: here<\/a><\/p>\n

I have replied as follows:<\/p>\n

“Here is the link to the 3D Competition’s\u00a0“Carry on modelling!” page: here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Some towns and city shopping centres have set up 3D virtual tours, meaning that you can see the frontages of the shops via Google Earth. It’s also possible to show what you would like to have, as a separate model.\u00a0However it is far simpler to use Google Street View to set up basic tours. The existing views will be\u00a0out of date so you’d need to create 360-degree “photo spheres”: here<\/a><\/p>\n

The ultimate step would be to offer a virtual tour of products and services, but that need not resemble the interior of any premises; it could just be a virtual bazaar \/\u00a0a visual catalogue.\u00a0Anything of that nature needs to be kept up to date daily or hourly and to accept\u00a0orders and queries during opening times (or around the clock!).<\/p>\n

The social media have developed so much since 2012 that I reckon any big project\/investment would fail to keep up. So it’s probably better to spot small, quick (“pop-up”)\u00a0opportunities to publicise the town centre online\u00a0and\u00a0attract shoppers to particular events.<\/p>\n

Ideas welcome<\/span>, especially ones that\u00a0apply the creative talents of North Herts. College (as the 3D Competition did, along\u00a0with\u00a0digital businesses)\u00a0and our new\u00a0Da Vinci School of Creative Enterprise!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when I thought it was OK to close this blog, up pops a mention in Streetlife: here I have replied as follows: “Here is the link to the 3D Competition’s\u00a0“Carry on modelling!” page: here Some towns and city shopping … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}