gurujim

One of the strengths of a blog can be the immediacy of the communication - but this would seem problematic when the blog belongs to a Department - for surely then when it comes to responding to comments you are stuck with either regurgitating already public Department policy, or having to convene the appropriate team meetings in order to determine the appropriate response (unless those TV script writers have gotten it all wrong....!!) Most "good" blogs are interesting to the reader because they ARE personal - the author has something NEW, or EXCITING to tell us...and they are open and vulnerable. I guess I'm suggesting that if you want the Department blog to be "good", then you'll need to take more risks than traditional governmental communications generally do. But I applaud the attempt to "walk the walk". Like everyone else though, I wonder if I wouldn't be better heard if I booked a good old face-to-face with my local MP when it comes to critical issues like the filter.