[cvn-developers] Ideas for getting media-friendly stories

[Seb Bacon]

Can anyone think of any?

1) It would be good to compile a list of links to constituencies with
"interesting" candidates. I made a start here:
http://code.google.com/p/constituencyvolunteernetwork/wiki/InterestingConstituencyAnswers

2) Interesting statistics? What could we come up with. I did a silly
blog post as a taster.
http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2010/04/lies-damn-lies-gender-balance/

3) Tom S suggested a competition to for interesting ways to get
candidates to answer. This guy got a written letter with the standard
boilerplate!
http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/ormskirk/dear-mr-owens/

Any more ideas?

Seb

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[Francis Irving]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Seb Bacon wrote:
> Can anyone think of any?
>
> 1) It would be good to compile a list of links to constituencies with
> "interesting" candidates. I made a start here:
> http://code.google.com/p/constituencyvolunteernetwork/wiki/InterestingConstituencyAnswers

Great!

> 2) Interesting statistics? What could we come up with. I did a silly
> blog post as a taster.
> http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2010/04/lies-damn-lies-gender-balance/

Kaihsu wants a dump of the data for analysis, which I'll try and do today...

> 3) Tom S suggested a competition to for interesting ways to get
> candidates to answer. This guy got a written letter with the standard
> boilerplate!
> http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/ormskirk/dear-mr-owens/

I did a blog post and a tweet with that idea...

http://www.mysociety.org/2010/04/30/it%E2%80%99s-job-interview-time-for-your-next-mp/

Do post interesting links like that one in comments there!

Francis