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tommyBusiness blog consultant Josh Hallett lets us know about the Death of a Blog.
If you are a public agency and you launch a blog which immediately achieves success with a high number of daily readers that leave scores of comments to discuss the posts and for the first time truly opens a public discussion on a topic what do you do next?
Shut down the blog of course!
In a nutshell, one particular public figure (read the transcript) within the agency couldn’t handle hearing the negative comments directed at him. Like many elected and other public officials, those that desire the position can often not handle a basic part of the job - criticism. Wuss.
Tags: Florida, online, politics, transportation
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November 15th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
MetroBlogOrlando was a great blog, and I hope other governments agencies will see that blogs can be a valuable tool for listening to their citizens.
November 15th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
I dare Rhonda Storms to get a blog… think she’s brave enough? She probably wouldnt enable comments either.
November 16th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
As an aside, it is interesting to remind that Tampa City’s website once had a comments section. One day that disappeared for no apparent reason. The “blog” concept wasn’t entirely mainstream then, but there were a lot of critical posts to be found.
November 16th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
I didn’t realize the Tampa City website once encouraged comments… I can only imagine all the critical passages…