tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post1552063069917271798..comments2024-01-31T00:56:33.779+00:00Comments on A Little About a Lot: Not So Well-Connectedniallgavinukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370683626939155999noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post-14122039728656578512012-11-19T19:30:50.798+00:002012-11-19T19:30:50.798+00:00Can't argue with any of that Wendy. Wil try to...Can't argue with any of that Wendy. Wil try to join the 'Guardian' debate on Friday, noting your tweeted comments about conflicting start time info!niallgavinukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04370683626939155999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post-28776420495950142662012-11-19T19:08:27.965+00:002012-11-19T19:08:27.965+00:00The curious thing is that, one thing that people s...The curious thing is that, one thing that people seem to be interested in at local level is the police. My own take is:<br />1. I wasn't clear what was being replaced or why and I'm guessing that most of the population is the same. I think that one of the options should have been "Continue with Police Authority". That way, people may have felt there was a genuine choice and someone would have had to argue the case for the new system.<br />2. There was very little media coverage. This limited coverage was drowned out by the American presidentials.<br />3. I think the big problem with feeding things to people's usual channels is that whoever is responsible for supplying info does not know what they are. Maybe when the forms go out, there needs to be an opportunity to supply info about how we want communications to come to us. Right now it's postal mail or nothing. <br />4. We can vote for all sorts of things by mobile phone. But not elections - for those most people were expected to make an expedition ti an unfamiliar place on a dark November night and fiddle with bits of paper. <br />WendyTagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035060959021988397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post-4046312815043327972012-11-19T09:09:51.423+00:002012-11-19T09:09:51.423+00:00You raise some interesting points Wendy. It seems ...You raise some interesting points Wendy. It seems to be down to the 'interest' factor, doesn't it? And from interest comes the desire to know more and to use one's usual channels to satisfy that need. And ALL those channels need to be 'fed' from source - just like we try to do in L&D - and what was clearly not done in this case.niallgavinukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04370683626939155999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post-42467711351329221842012-11-19T00:15:14.371+00:002012-11-19T00:15:14.371+00:00I think I first became aware from a piece in the n...I think I first became aware from a piece in the newspaper illustrated by a photo of John Prescott posing on a Police Motorbike. Fairly weird but memorable. After that, it went very quiet for a long time. I wonder if we would have heard more about these elections in the media if it had been London too.WendyTagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035060959021988397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post-19140612910015642612012-11-18T23:51:03.090+00:002012-11-18T23:51:03.090+00:00Like you, I was dismayed to learn that so few peop...Like you, I was dismayed to learn that so few people voted. I was even more perturbed to hear so many people say (on Facebook and Twitter) that they didn't vote because they didn't know about the candidates and this was because they were not sent candidate leaflets. Hang on ... if we are on Facebook or Twitter, we're connected. But not, it seems, to the right places.<br /><br />Is part of the problem that PCC "connections" had to be invented from scratch so those connections were never made? For example the main candidates built their Twitter following up to a few hundred each over the course of the election. The Sussex Police account has about 21,000 followers. However they couldn't use that existing audience to circulate useful links or even let people know that there was a vote. In contrast, an organisation would be able to use all channels to publicise and encourage take up of a new L&D initiative.<br />WendyTagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035060959021988397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post-70559264053182293592012-11-18T22:15:26.182+00:002012-11-18T22:15:26.182+00:00Thanks Kate; I agree, I think the whole thing caug...Thanks Kate; I agree, I think the whole thing caught a lot of people out, simply by not having been communicated with and engaged. Lesson there for us all.niallgavinukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04370683626939155999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627367356050316576.post-47965943470396904392012-11-18T22:10:18.867+00:002012-11-18T22:10:18.867+00:00I regard myself as being well connected online but...I regard myself as being well connected online but I heard nothing either online or via post about the upcoming elections. Not a dickie bird. I saw other people mention it online but assumed it was a bit like the Bristol Mayor election - something that was happening elsewhere. <br /><br />I read a comment on Twitter this evening that said more people vote for X Factor than voted in these elections. My response was (no matter how much one likes or dislikes X Factor personally) that is the difference between an engaged audience and one that isn't engaged. Or in my case, is completely oblivious! The whole thing raises interesting questions that seem to be a long way from being answered by the government. Kate Grahamhttp://www.kategraham23.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com