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.
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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)« Austin Mitchell | Main | Shaun Woodward » October 28, 2003 Lord Clive SoleyLabour MP for Hammersmith (1992-1997) then Ealing Acton and Shepherd's Bush (1997-2005) Launched: October 28, 2003 Format: Typepad (customised template) Comments: Yes MP. In. Domain. Name. Ngggggh!: "Let's face it; you won't always be a Councillor or an MP." Indeed. And after he had been blogging as an MP for almost two years, this is what happened to Clive: Lord Soley: Clive Stafford Soley, Esquire, having been created Baron Soley, of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, for life - was, in his robes, introduced between the Lord Dubs and the Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, and made the solemn Affirmation. He blogs about it here.
For a good laugh, you may want to read his reaction and Richard Allan's to an inaccuracy in the Guardian. In my opinion, Clive really needs his own domain name (and also move on from this collective Ealing & Shepherds Bush site), but he's now reached a position where the reputation of his current (blog) URL earns him good search results for the information he wants seen by those with an interest in people like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond... and he risks sacrificing that performance (at least for a short while) if he moves. Posted by timireland on October 28, 2003 10:37 AM in the category Blogs: House of Lords 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.) |