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Blogging: a new way to lead

Posted on September 22, 2009 with No Comments

A 15 minute documentary about using the internet to engage with communities.

There are public meetings taking place every day in your area and your members and officers are not attending. The meetings are taking place on the internet and the community is organising itself online. New leaders are emerging and existing community leaders are not being heard.

This film follows three Norfolk County Councillors as they start blogging to take part in the online community in their area. We discover their hopes and aspirations and learn how the reality matches up.

Experienced Public Sector bloggers give us their insight into and advice on blogging. They include
* Tom Watson MP, Cabinet Office Minister
* Steve Webb MP
* Cllr Mary Reid
* Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom, North Wales Police
* Andrew North, CEO Cheltenham Borough Council

Credits:
The civicsurf project wish to thank Cllr Jenny Chamberlin, Cllr Tony Tomkinson and Cllr Peter Harwood for their patience and understanding during filming.

civicsurf is a project run by Gallomanor in partnership with Norfolk County Council and supported by the Innovations Fund Phase II from the Ministry of Justice.

For more information contact shane@civicsurf.org.uk or visit http://www.civicsurf.org.uk

civicsurf is published by Gallomanor Communications Ltd.
It is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK Licence.

Civicsurf- Blogging: a new way to lead from Paul Hadley on Vimeo.

Many thanks to Alan Colson (@chimerax) and the folk over at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council for introducing me to this. Thank god for the Creative Commons Licence- now we can all share the good work being done both in Solihull and Norfolk….. long may it continue.

Should you wish to get involved with some of the work that Solihull is doing or join in some of the Social Media Surgeries, please visit http://wmcsms.wordpress.com/