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	<title>Comments on: Eating the Elephant</title>
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		<title>By: Overcoming the challenges to open government - the wiki way : Tim&#8217;s Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/05/11/obstacles-to-open-government/comment-page-1/#comment-143</link>
		<dc:creator>Overcoming the challenges to open government - the wiki way : Tim&#8217;s Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 19:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] in true Wiki style it can be built up and developed. Paul Evans has already pointed out one ommission which now has it&#8217;s own page: the lack of clarity about what the law says about engagement. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] in true Wiki style it can be built up and developed. Paul Evans has already pointed out one ommission which now has it&#8217;s own page: the lack of clarity about what the law says about engagement. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Red Blogger</title>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/05/11/obstacles-to-open-government/comment-page-1/#comment-142</link>
		<dc:creator>Red Blogger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve added some links to some DCLG documents that would appear to give every encouragement possible to council&#039;s encouraging their elected representatives to engage in social networking sites and blogs.  The documents are &quot;Communities in control: real people, real power&quot; A DCLG white paper from July 09; &quot;Representing the future – The report of the Councillors Commission&quot; published in December 2007 which formed much of the basis for the white paper; and DCLG&#039;s consultation on changes to the publicity code (the consultation closed in March this year)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve added some links to some DCLG documents that would appear to give every encouragement possible to council&#8217;s encouraging their elected representatives to engage in social networking sites and blogs.  The documents are &#8220;Communities in control: real people, real power&#8221; A DCLG white paper from July 09; &#8220;Representing the future – The report of the Councillors Commission&#8221; published in December 2007 which formed much of the basis for the white paper; and DCLG&#8217;s consultation on changes to the publicity code (the consultation closed in March this year)</p>
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		<title>By: timgdavies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some key observations - and I&#039;m happy for the neat 50 to be shown to be many more...

I&#039;ve put a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/wiki/socialstrategy:legal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quick additional page on the Wiki around legal obstacles to capture some of the bits around the publicity code&lt;/a&gt; and will take a look at the guidance you&#039;ve referenced to see if we can work this up more.

I certainly don&#039;t want the list I&#039;ve put together to imply though that everyone should be a social-media-master - indeed as not everyone will be a master of public speaking or knocking on doors to talk to people - and there may be a very strong case for officers to &#039;digitally enable&#039; councillors without necessarily forcing councillors to spent more time at a computer. However, right now the hurdles to officer use of technologies means very few are able to even consider playing that digitally enabling role.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some key observations &#8211; and I&#8217;m happy for the neat 50 to be shown to be many more&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve put a <a href="http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/wiki/socialstrategy:legal" rel="nofollow">quick additional page on the Wiki around legal obstacles to capture some of the bits around the publicity code</a> and will take a look at the guidance you&#8217;ve referenced to see if we can work this up more.</p>
<p>I certainly don&#8217;t want the list I&#8217;ve put together to imply though that everyone should be a social-media-master &#8211; indeed as not everyone will be a master of public speaking or knocking on doors to talk to people &#8211; and there may be a very strong case for officers to &#8216;digitally enable&#8217; councillors without necessarily forcing councillors to spent more time at a computer. However, right now the hurdles to officer use of technologies means very few are able to even consider playing that digitally enabling role.</p>
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