On the Stump

I’ve been working with Jon Bright who edits the OurKingdom blog for a couple of months on a policy project that we are calling “The Stump” or “On The Stump“.

It is a rotating policy debate that moves around each week like the Britblog Roundup.

It works like this:

1. On Sunday “host for the week” Blogger A publishes an article about any issue or aspect of policy that they are interested in.
2. During the week anybody who wants to responds on their own blog and links back to the original post.
3. On the next Saturday Blogger B publishes a summary and analysis of the responses, including linking back to all those who responded.
4. On Sunday (i.e., the next day) Blogger B becomes the “host for the next week” and the cycle starts again.

This process prevents anyone having to do too much work continually - the way this is organised will mean that team members will have to put in quite a bit of thought and time roughly once every two months.

You can find the blog at stump.org.uk, and the feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/stump. Watch these addresses for developments.

(This was first posted at the weekend to make sure that it reaches weekday readers - my apologies if you have read it twice.)

I’ve been working with Jon Bright who edits the OurKingdom blog for a couple of months on a policy project that we are calling “The Stump” or “On The Stump“.

It is a rotating policy debate that moves around each week like the Britblog Roundup.

It works like this:

1. On Sunday “host for the week” Blogger A publishes an article about any issue or aspect of policy that they are interested in.
2. During the week anybody who wants to responds on their own blog and links back to the original post.
3. On the next Saturday Blogger B publishes a summary and analysis of the responses, including linking back to all those who responded.
4. On Sunday (i.e., the next day) Blogger B becomes the “host for the next week” and the cycle starts again.

This process prevents anyone having to do too much work continually - the way this is organised will mean that team members will have to put in quite a bit of thought and time roughly once every two months.

You can find the blog at stump.org.uk, and the feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/stump. Watch these addresses for developments.

Come and join the Policy Picnic.

The Stump is a new initiative in helping bloggers debate and (perhaps even develop) policy. To be kept informed, please email onthestump at gmail dot com.