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	<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk</link>
	<description>Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics</description>
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		<title>Civil service social media use during election &#8216;purdah&#8217;</title>
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Later this week, a document will be published outlining what civil servants can and can&#8217;t do with social media during the election &#8216;purdah&#8217; period.
I&#8217;ve been given an outline of what guidance it includes and I&#8217;m here to tell you now that &#8211; when you see it, I think you will agree with me &#8211; that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/03/08/civil-service-social-media-use-during-election-purdah/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>Election expenses &amp; &#8217;swiftboating&#8217; &#8211; still relevant?</title>
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Apologies for the light posting here &#8211; I&#8217;ve been a bit busy with other things lately. This post will be some way off being a detailed bit of innovative research as well &#8211; more an observation to fill the gap.
Every candidate at the next general election will be subjected to a set of rules to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/03/01/election-expenses-swiftboating-still-relevant/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>Valituskuoro &#8211; the &#8216;complaints choir&#8217;</title>
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One of the best comments I&#8217;ve found under one of my blog posts a while ago (it was about whinging in comments boxes) said&#8230;
&#8220;Philosophers have sought to understand the world. The point is to complain about it.&#8221;
Here, Peter Levine has a nice post up about the &#8216;complaints choir&#8216; in Chicago.
Related Posts:Will Victor be the eventual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/24/valituskuoro-the-complaints-choir/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Empowerment&#8217;</title>
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For me, this post by Kevin Harris sums up what happened over the past decade, where new Labour&#8217;s lightly held good intentions met their managerialst bent and the two cancelled each other out:
&#8220;Round about 2003, the field of social inclusion and new technology became counter-productively transformed when government started putting up huge chunks of funding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/23/empowerment/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>JFDI: tactics, transparency and interactivity</title>
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Dave Briggs has a good post up about how organisations introduce technology. He contrasts the &#8216;JFDI&#8217; approach (which stands for Just Do It) and a more boring sustainable approach.
I&#8217;ve met Dave and he has very sensible views on Football. Our mutual friend Brian Clough could have contributed to this whole discussion. As he put it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/22/jfdi-tactics-transparency-and-interactivity/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>Centralisation: A turning point?</title>
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For those of us who would like local politics to be more highly valued, two slightly conflicting observations were made by prominent political bloggers last weekend.
The first was by the ever-perceptive Potlatch writing about James Purnell, and digging into the question of &#8216;professionalisation&#8217; of politics:
&#8220;Purnell &#8211; like Ruth Kelly and Ed Balls &#8211; ticks both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/22/centralisation-a-turning-point/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>Buzzing the broadsheets</title>
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This blog, titled as it is as Local Democracy but spending a fair portion of it&#8217;s commentary on social media technology, rests on the premise that local democracy will be profoundly affected by tech-driven changes in the way that the media works, and the way that people can associate with each other.
It will change the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/15/buzzing-the-broadsheets/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>Elsewhere</title>
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I&#8217;ve just had this article published by The Telegraph. Sometimes, it&#8217;s only when you read yourself elsewhere that you see that you buried your more important point under less significant ones.
&#8220;Since the 2005 election, we have raced past the tipping point. Facebook has 23 million British users. About half of the eligible voters are social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/11/elsewhere-2/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>Three signposts off</title>
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I&#8217;ve started drafting three articles in the last 24 hours for this blog only to find a better one on the same subject written by someone else.
Firstly, it&#8217;s a regular theme here that data visualisations are a huge opportunity for us all because they allow us to break the monopoly that civil servants, sloppy journalists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/10/three-signposts-off/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<title>Local budget consultations</title>
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I was out-and-about the other day and came across this advert:
My local authority want me to have my say in how they spend and collect their money. When I got home, I visited the www.barnet.gov.uk/budget site accordingly.
It was quite good. It  went some way towards explaining how the council is funded and what it spends its money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2010/02/08/local-budget-consultations/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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