Competition – This is your chance to drink like Guido!
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…..
February 28, 2011 at 14:54
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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)
- February 23, 2011 at 09:35
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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/
- February 22, 2011 at 21:52
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Are you quite sure you know what you have done…?
oh dear…………..
- February 22, 2011 at 20:39
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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…
- February 22, 2011 at 19:55
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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.”
- February 22, 2011 at
21:04
- February 22, 2011 at 19:28
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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).
- February
22, 2011 at 19:27
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Wonder if I am on the list of ” trouble makers and time wasters”
- February 22, 2011 at 19:04
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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!
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February 22, 2011 at 18:39
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Experts? That six named, with the exception of Dizzy, couldn’t blog their
way out of a paper bag!
- February 22, 2011 at 18:09
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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.
- February 22, 2011 at 16:34
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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
- February 22, 2011 at 16:05
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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?
- February 22, 2011 at
16:08
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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)
- February 23, 2011 at 09:23
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Strak & Eel Pie – proper lovely!
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February 22, 2011 at 16:03
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ooooooooohhhhh!
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