A paper about our 2012 survey of Community Councils’ online performances has just been published. Links to all of our publications are on this blog’s Publications, contacts and research blogs page.
It was pleasing to receive another response to our report, mostly because of its format. The responder’s email address clearly indicated his/her position (a CC member) and name, and the actual community council. Better still, the header and footer reaffirmed this information, and included the CC’s contact address, web address and a phone number. This CC is in a relatively large town – the header and footer stated which part of the town this CC represented. Continue reading
The results of our 2014 survey of Community Councils’ internet use have gathered some interest, especially after Peter wrote about the massive churn in online presences.
(Click the graphic to see a full-sized PDF.)
The rings’ outer diameters represent the numbers in each status in 2014. Inner diameters represent the amount of ‘churn’, i.e. the sum of the numbers that left or entered this status since 2012.
So the RFC project – surveying community council online presences is all over apart from the shouting publicising it and writing a paper or two for a peer-reviewed journal. Celebrations thereof to be arranged. Continue reading
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