Just popped up on the Gallomanor blog – Cllr 2.0:
The Ministry of Justice Innovations Fund II approved a bid from Gallomanor and Norfolk County Council to help set this record straight. We’re filming a group of six Norfolk County Councillors as we train them on how to blog. The film along with a introductory booklet will be distributed to public sector organisations to help them convince their decision makers, their civic leaders that using the internet and blogging in particular are good communication tools. We’ll also be setting up a series of Q&A session with local bloggers for the first 25 local authorities wanting to run them.
Great stuff! And perfect for my Public Sector Social Media meet on the 26th Feb. I have emailed Shane at Gallomanor to see if he and maybe someone from Norfolk CC can come along and chat to us about the project, which has its own blog (of course!) at http://cllr2pointzero.wordpress.com/.
Andrew Brown is also involved in Cllr 2.0, whose blog I have been subscribed to for a while now.
Another good example of councillors blogging is at Chester City Council, with their Chesterblogs project. I had emailed their generic web team address about this, and whether they would like to be involved, but sadly never heard anything back.
Hi Dave, thanks for the link (and for reading!).
It’s been a very interesting project to be involved in – a bit poacher turned gamekeeper for me – and a real learning curve around some of the barriers that councillors face in terms of getting up to speed in these 2.0 times.
Andrew – it’s no problem at all. This is exactly the sort of project that should be shouted about from the rooftops, if only to get others in local gov excited about it!