The Political Weblog Project is a collaborative effort designed to encourage MPs, Councillors and other elected officials to communicate more effectively online via the intelligent use of weblogs. Elected officials who wish to take part in this scheme must follow these simple rules that exist primarily for your own benefit:Rule #1 - You must own (or be ready to purchase) your own domain name.
Rule #2 - You must use the technology to engage in two-way commmunication
Rule #3 - You must fund/source the weblog with your own money or resources.
Those who pledge to follow these rules will be provided with all the necessary assets and expertise at an extremely competitive rate.
What is a weblog? | Why two-way communication? | Why do I need my own domain?
More politicians need to be using weblogs properly. Maybe you can help.
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If you click on any of the 'Blogs' categories below, you will find that these entries have been individually backdated to correspond with the launch date of the blog that entry references (in order to provide a categorised and sequential history of these blogs).
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Blogs: All (31) Blogs: Campaign (2) Blogs: Councillors (Labour) (1) Blogs: House of Lords (1) Blogs: MPs (Conservative) (1) Blogs: MPs (Labour) (5) Blogs: MPs (Liberal Democrat) (2) Blogs: Proxies (20) Designers and Providers (4) Education and Seminars (2) Fighting Ignorance (6) General (1) News (2)Main | Tom Watson » February 20, 2003 Richard AllanLiberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam (1997-2005) Launched: February 20th, 2003 Format: Movable Type, then WordPress Comments: Yes There are two things I genuinely like about this man: 1. When his initial blogging escaped my attention and I started banging on about Tom Watson being the first blogging MP evah, he was too humble to contradict me. 2. He built his weblog with his own two hands. And he did it first, folks. Richard Allan was the first British MP with a fully functional weblog Richard has contributed greatly to the developing weblog community, and has attended almost every public debate or meeting on the subject. In 2005 Richard stood down as the MP for Sheffield Hallam. He continues to blog. Posted by timireland on February 20, 2003 5:30 PM in the category Blogs: MPs (Liberal Democrat) CommentsPost a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |