Blogs
From E-Consultation Guide
A weblog or blog is an on-line journal that can be read on a web site. The author can easily add new diary entries, which appear at the top of the page.
In consultations, blogs can be used in three different ways:
- To publicise a consultation or explain an issue (Telling the public)
- This is the common one-to-many usage of a blog
- Civic Leadership Weblog Project - Councillors' Blogs
- Mary Reid, the Mayor of Kingston-upon-Thames. This is one of a number of councillor blogs set up under the UK Local E-democracy programme, now run by ICELE
- To collect stories from the public (Identifying issues)
- The Wheel's Active Citizenship Consultation collected personal stories about, and views on, active citizenship.
- Instead of one author, many people submitted entries to a collective blog.
- To discuss issues (Deliberation)
- by allowing others to comment on blog entries.
- Mick Fealty writes news items on the Slugger O'Toole blog and invites people to leave comments on each.
To start a blog, you can:
- Sign up to a blogging site, like Blogspot or Live Journal, or
- Install blogging software on your own web site, e.g.
- WordPress (ask us for a password then try blogging here)
- Blogspot
