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)« Eric Illsley (Proxy Blog) | Main | Glenda Jackson (Proxy Blog) » August 5, 2004 Jeff Ennis (Proxy Blog)Labour MP for Barnsley East and Mexborough Proxy blog by: 'Not Jeff Ennis' Launched: August 5, 2004 Format: Blogger.com (standard template) Comments: Yes The author of this proxy blog says it best here: Jeff has a website maintained by those very nice people over at ePolitix.com, which not only contains his biography, but also details of various Bills and EDMs he has voted on, along with press releases and speeches. It is apparent, both from speaking to his constituents and reading articles in the press that Jeff holds strong opinions on both politics and society which do not appear on the ePolitix website. Here is a link to Jeff's ePolitix.com 'site'. ePolitix.com does provide a valuable free website service for MPs (and they do seem to be exploring the blog option), but resulting websites are hosted at ePolitix.com (i.e. not under a domain the MP controls) and too many MPs stop with the basic package and never go any further. Posted by timireland on August 5, 2004 5:12 PM in the category Blogs: Proxies 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.) |