You are already too late for the early bird ‘special price’ of £195, so expect to pay in excess of that….
March 29th should herald a great day out for all. On that day in 2011, politicians and ‘other people with a public profile’ will be able to listen to the experts in the business explaining to them:
The difference between a blogger and a journalist (hang on – don’t comment yet, it gets better!)
Putting a story on a blog….
Spotting trouble makers and time wasters…
Fighting your corner in the comments…(for when you failed to spot the trouble makers and time wasters!)
‘Crisis management’ – fire fighting on the blogosphere. (for when you made an ass of yourself fighting your corner in the blogosphere!)
Using Google Analytics (for when you want to find out how many other stories your attempts to fire fight on the blogosphere generated…!)
Understanding Twitter (that one should be especially good!)
The experts who will be explaining this to the great and the good are:
Iain Dale, publisher of Total Politics
Harry Cole, blogs at Order-Order
Laurence Durnan, blogs at Political Scrapbook
Phil Hendren, blogs as Dizzy Thinks
Sunny Hundal, blogs at Liberal Conspiracy
Shane Greer, executive editor of Total Politics
All that golden knowledge for in excess of £195 (but they do get lunch!)
Just this once we will have a decent prize. A bottle of Chateau Margaux – Guido’s favourite tipple – for the best entry comprised of a ‘panel of experts’ and ‘subjects covered’ in the Anna Raccoon ‘How to Deal with Bloggers’ Seminar – a mere £100 inclusive of slippery jellied Eel Pie and Mash – exceptional wit will be rewarded…..
SBML is the landlord of the Raccoon Arms. He lives North of Watford and has an eclictic range of interests from Science and Technology to Politics including Woodwork and Genealogy. His political viewpoint has evolved from being a student demonstrator to more liberal views and has now seen the light in Libertarianism.
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“jellied Eel Pie” ??
As a one-time Deptfordian, I can only say WTF?
As any fule kno, eels are either jellied or stewed. Or do you have a secret family recipe?
If they need a seminar to tell the difference between a blogger and a journalist – we can be sure that the fules will not kno that you can only get the pie in the stewed version!
Regards,
Anna (one time Elephant and Castle!-ite)
Strak & Eel Pie – proper lovely!
Let’s hope they don’t try to claim this on expenses. It will go way over their heads because must of the politicos are so thick that they need help to find the on/off switch on a computer
Jellied? Stewed? Ewwwwh! Eel should be cold-smoked, sliced razor thin and served (a) with fresh scrambled egg or (b) on a bed of Endive and Samphire, drizzled with a little fresh lime juice.
Experts? That six named, with the exception of Dizzy, couldn’t blog their way out of a paper bag!
Harry Cole is/was Tory Boy. Both he and Dizzy will gain nothing by association with the rest, all Total Bollotics
I find Margaux’s 2nd, Segla, is just as good and only £20!
Wonder if I am on the list of ” trouble makers and time wasters”
I thought Chateau Margaux was what Jerry was allowed to quaff on ‘The Good Life’ all them years ago. Being Margaux it would be very high maintenance and consequently expensive. Several leagues better than Tom’s peapod burgundy (though the ever-loyal Barbara may disagree).
I try & limit the no. of posts per day but the limerick muse is quite active.
An MP decided to know.
What bloggers are like in full flow.
He screamed “I CAN’T STAND IT,”
“IT’S WILD WEST WITH BANDITS!”
“To Hundreds Of Chilterns I’ll go.”
*applause*
Politicians and other people with a public profile?
Taxpayers will be paying for this then. All of them will be claiming exes and as everyone knows, its public sector types who have time for jamborees.
Noses in troughs…
Are you quite sure you know what you have done…?
oh dear…………..
Along with Cllr Tim (who’s Labour and blogs from Barnsley) and a lovely team from Kirklees Council, I’ve been running a series of sessions – dubbed CllSocMed – for Councillors in the Broad Acres (plus a few strays from the Northern parts of Yellow Belly country).
Not, of course, that I know the first thing about this blogging malarkey. My selection is entirely down to charm, wit, personality and an unerring capacity for being in and/or making trouble.
I’m also a politician – unlike any of the self-appointing Laarndan folk at this seminar thingy – and know the ‘oh,shit I shouldn’t have said that’ moment and the rules (mostly introduced by Blair) that constrain us.
So, to cut a long story short, I volunteer….
…to sit at the back and heckle
PS I know I misspelled steak
PPS CllrSocMed http://cllrsocmed.wordpress.com/
How to be a celebrity leftie journo-blogger with a high-profile MSM blog
Panel of experts
Polly Toynbee
Andrew Marr (Mr & Mrs)
Andrew Rawnsley
Robert Peston
Nick Robinson
Subjects Covered
Where do ideas come from ? – how to write an OpEd article after lunch with a senior Labour politician without making it too obvious they have sold you a line
Fisking – how to recover your poise when you’ve been fisked to within an inch of your life by the spiky end of a bog-brush
Leaking – how to boost your scoop-count by becoming the wholly-owned subsidiary of a leading politician or Rupert Murdoch
Arselikhan – how to conduct an interview to the maximum benefit of the interviewee without the BBC getting its licence-fee revoked
Arse-covering – the pros and cons of a super-injunction to minimise public chatter concerning your illegitimate offspring – and how non-injuncted bloggers can safely ignore it
Next week: celebrity rightist journo blogging panel with Boris (invited); Fraser Nelson (invited)