Paul Fisher, a member of the Northwestern Lehigh (Lehigh County) school board, has launched a blog entitled Pride and Promise. His opening post is a clear, calm summary of the status of his district’s ongoing contract negotiations. He also publishes the full text of a just-released fact finder’s report, saving his constituents from having to root around for it at the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board website.
It’s good news whenever an elected official decides to communicate regularly with the public. It’s great news when he or she provides such solid information, not personal PR or spin. Paul contributes regularly to this blog, so I can promise that his blog will be a terrific service to his community. Not incidentally, it’s also attractive and user-friendly. Paul has a background in graphics design, and that shows.
Bravo, Paul!
1:23 pm on December 4th, 2009 1
Fred,
Thanks for all your support and encouragement. As you know, enhancing the level of communication and interaction with stakeholders needs to be a continued focus in public education, especially with many challenges on the horizon.
Thankfully, the internet and a plethora of open source technology (WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.) has afforded us a very fast, efficient, and inexpensive way to accomplish this need.