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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CONTACT DETAILS
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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).
CATEGORIES
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)« Glenda Jackson (Proxy Blog) | Main | Paul Keetch (Proxy Blog) » August 16, 2004 Steve Pound (Proxy Blog)Labour MP for Ealing North Proxy blog by: 'livesinealing' Launched: August 16, 2004 Format: Blogger.com (standard template) Comments: Yes If Steve Pound pops up in the news, this blog reports it. It's a good example of casual proxy blogging, where you just sit and wait for Google News Alerts to bring you data and then enter that data into the weblog. The author states: It is my intention for this site to be a) a source of information, and b) a gentle prod in the direction of Steve Pound running his own weblog. Steve Pound himself has a website at http://www.stevepound.org.uk/ and recently the site has inched toward a blog approach by featuring regular updates, listed sequentially. However, there is no visible two-way communication. There's a special 'members only' section for Labour Party members and if you click on the link to 'Have Your Say', you will be redirected to the now-defunct Big 'Conversation'. Telegraph - Revealed: Labour's Big Conversation is a fix: Labour's new initiative to listen to voters, The Big Conversation, appears to be a big con: a Telegraph investigation has revealed that party officials have handpicked contributors - and have then edited out their negative comments. Posted by timireland on August 16, 2004 11:31 AM 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.) |