See how here: I am a blogger.
Some blogs put up by UK local political leaders in the last couple of years have been quite tragic. They end up being mocked, held up as examples of how not to blog and have often been quietly consigned to history. The reason? No one read them. Now our council leader, Angus Campbell, has started blogging.
A bad sign is when they are carefully written or edited by someone else – as Angus Campbell’s first attempt obviously is. It should not be a dry business report – there’s enough of them in the White House. A blog should be personal, warm, informal – so it’s a minus point is if it is dull and humourless. It should be a combination of fun and serious content. Even exaggeration is OK. Let’s see what Mr Campbell’s best line is. Er, er, er. How about: ” It’s always been important to me as leader of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar to engage as much as I can with our communities.” Ho ho. I’m splitting my sides here. Hey, I said exaggeration was OK, not complete nonsense.
The cardinal sin though is not putting in orginal material. We know about the worthy stuff like the fight for the coastguard stations, the Cosla meeting, Southern Cross and the schools moratorium. We don’t care what meetings you’ve been to on the mainland if you aren’t going to tell us something interesting about them. Who did you meet on the plane?
For goodness sake, just tell us something we don’t already know. Please. It’s a very poor start. I would give it one out of 10 just for the good spelling. Gold star for you, Nigel. The actual content is really pretty dull. You must do better, Mr Campbell, or just forget the whole flipping thing.
I was tempted to leave a comment on Von Campbell’s ‘blog’ but you have to login to do so and blow me if I could find somewhere to login on the wretched page. Anyway what I would have said would have landed me in court so I guess that has saved me a lot of trouble (and money). I would go along with the should ‘just forget the whole flipping thing’. A more toe curling and insincere piece of garbage has surely only been written by Cherie Blair or Tony Blair come to that. Indeed, tell us who has been seen behind the portakabins with Seonag from Finance or how many hours Murdo has been at lunch without clocking off. We can find out from Hebrides News how much money has been wasted here and who has been on a junket there. Gee wizz, and I thought Nadine Dorries’s blog was dull!
Yep, Angus Campbell’s brand new blog must rank as one of the worst attempts ever seen in the entire history of the blogosphere. How about that profile pic?? Looks like the kid off the cover of the MAD comic
Would you let this man run your local council? I wouldn’t trust him with a Portakabin near a refuse tip.
Well, I’m all subscribed up and waiting with baited breath for the next exciting installment of total tedium.
Bring it on Nige. Such innovation in the sphere of social networking should be applauded. They don’t call you the Alastair Campbell of the Western Isles for nothing. Spin Doctor? More like Spin Professor.
Another fine example of the Comhairle leading the way.
What ever next for our Dear Leader? Dare I say Twitter?
Stephen Fry, you better up your game – there’s a new kid in town.
Was that our leader doing a reasonable turn at Glasto last night?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/glastonbury/2011/artists/planb/
ancatdubh has left a message on campbells bog,take the first letter of each word to reveal the true message.
ancatdubh’s message was removed – but not before I saw it – spot on! So much for welcoming all messages, eh?
The “Leader’s Bolg” doesn’t appear to get much interest these days, and certainly a distinct lack of comment.
Of course there might be more if you didn’t have to go through the sign up, login, get registered, fingerprinted and DNA tested before you may be permitted to comment. Missing a lot of feedback perhaps?
I also notice that the “Leader” doesn’t reply much unless he feels there is a chance of copy and pasting from council documents which will bore anyone into submission and put a stop to all that commentng lark.
On his topic “CoSLA and the Rural Schools Moratorium” he never replied to Andrew Walker’s last comment which pointed out that the very documents the “Leader” referred us all to, pointed out that without exception the children at the schools facing closure unanimously opposed the closures.
Why is that? This was argueably the most important aspect of the “consultation” process that the coucil were ignoring. Oh that’s it!