Phuket to the world: Web forum zeros in

PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette has entered the booming online forum sweepstakes by signing a partnership agreement with ThaiVisa.Com, Thailand's largest English-language Web board. The agreement results in the birth of the Phuket Gazette/ThaiVisa Forum, a collection of thousands of pages of reader knowledge and observations on just about every aspect of life in Phuket.

The Gazette endows the venture with rich, dynamic news content, major Web visitor statistics from its online newspaper, and a powerful Google ranking, while ThaiVisa provides the technology and a massive membership base to ensure continued growth in readership participation.

"We've been told for years that we should have a forum, that our hard-copy letters to the editor and Issues & Answers columns, while interactive, are simply too slow to satisfy the market's lust for "see-it, get-it now", said John Magee, publisher of the Gazette. "But we've not had the resources to set up our own Web board, so working together with ThaiVisa and The Nation on this seemed like a natural," he added.

The ThaiVisa.Com Expat Forum, of which the Phuket Forum is a part, has, as of this morning, 75,804 registered members. Launched in 2002, the forum now enjoys about 25,000 unique visitors a day, and serves up more than four million pages per month. The pages carry close to 3 million individual posts contributed by readers with an interest in Thailand.

"We are happy to be working with the Gazette in the Phuket Forum. It's a newspaper with a long history of credibility and substance, and the Gazette Online has an extremely strong presence in the major search engines, particularly Google. Working together with the Gazette on a trial basis over the past month has already resulted in a major increase in visits to our Phuket Forum, a trend which we expect to continue," says Barry Main, marketing director of ThaiVisa.Com.

"We've brought a Phuket news icon into our pages, and the opportunities for expansion of the partnership into other areas – classified advertising, for example – are looking pretty good," he added.

-- Phuket Gazette 2009-05-05

http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.asp?id=7312

Congrats!

any plans for a merger with stickman in the pipeline george?

Let's hope their proofreaders are more competent in English than The Nat*on's!!!

Congrats!

After years of setting the standard for representing Expats in Thailand, this is yet another well-deserved affirmation.

Kudos!

Edited May 5, 200917 yr by baht&sold

Please don't merge with Pattaya One

Congratulations both TV and the Gazette.

But I've noticed the sponsorship badge and the 'Forums' like off of the gazette for over a week now. Why just announce it now?

Congrats again.

PG & TV definitely deserve each other.

Not sure why this is such great news. To see the full edition of PG on-line you have to pay over 1,000 baht per year subscription. The result is that there is not much fresh news available to the casual visitor to the site.

Not sure why this is such great news. To see the full edition of PG on-line you have to pay over 1,000 baht per year subscription. The result is that there is not much fresh news available to the casual visitor to the site.

Apparently not even news about the mysterious deaths on Phi Phi Island. (see related thread....)

TVisa is a wonderful contribution to all expatriates. Thank you

Great News, for Phuket and For us...

Good luck

Isn't it a shame that Phuket Gazette never address the real issue's on the Island and they never print anything they think will damage the island. When we all know the Tuk Tuk problems the jet ski rip off merchants and the Awfull pricing for farangs that are driving people away. They never seem to answear these questions they simply ignore them.

Good luck to , It will be great to Se what result will come in future.

Maybe zoom in on the long tails and tuk tuk mafia and the whole transport problems in Phuket,

where the mob totally decide where a meter taxi can drive and what bus connections to run

and if private yachts can anchor of the coast and bring their families on-board, zoom in on garbage problems

and the polluted water from the hotels who let it out in bays very night of the west coast of Phuket.