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I :heart: Blackburn Labour’s website
By Steve Hanlon | March 27, 2009
Well, perhaps that’s an exaggeration, but it’s a fine site. It does all the things that a modern local political party should be doing – engaging through as many social networks as possible, using youtube, flickr and twitter (and facebook?) and they use joomla! for their content management (good choice).
If you think that I like the site because I’m a leftie techie – then you’d be right, but it’s also because they’re doing so many things _really_ well.
It’s not a Jack Straw MP site, but there are lots of contributions from him; it’s not a personal site (like this one) which suffers from the whims and changing interests of the author and it’s not a cheap aggregation of what’s going on locally. Instead it’s a straightforward campaigning local website which gives the residents of Blackburn a good idea of what Labour is doing and what it thinks about local issues.
There’s nothing like it in West Lancs, or I think, the rest of the county which is a great shame.
The past few years have seen an explosion of platforms for blogging and social interaction at virtually no cost to the publisher – it can be done locally where there is the will. Blackburn are doing a great job in exploiting all the platforms that they can lay their hands on, which I applaud.
Keep up the good work!
now… how do I add it to my blogroll…
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