This week's Planning magazine (issue 1373, 16th June 2000, p12) includes an
article about how 'modern IT services are offering new ways for council
decision-makers to involve local people' by Debbie Bonser, strategic
information officer of Lancashire County Council. She writes:
'Information and communication technology (ICT) is at the centre of the
Government's modernisation of local government agenda, as it offers new
opportunities for local authorities to cFrom [log in to unmask] Thu Jun 22 18:02:54 2000
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ref. Neil Campling's comments.
I cannot agree more. There are as many as 25 SMR Forum messages on this
machine each week so each becomes more meaningless and of less interest.
Has archaeology just been demoted to an SMR record discussion? I am not an
archaeologist but unfortunately I share the machine with two, or perhaps it
is they who are unfortunate. Archaeologists are much more interesting in
the flesh, thankfully. Mizzy Marshall, Conservation, Dudley MBC.
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From: Neil Campling <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 21 June 2000 09:43
Subject: Out of Office Replies
>Dear All,
>
>If there was less chatter and more substantive meaningful content, there
would be fewer messages to go through when one gets back to the office, with
less need either to suspend connection to the mailbase or provide an out of
office reply. For example, Bob Sydes question the other day had several
self-evident answers such as use HLF money to provide separate space, which
is why I didn't respond. If you want to chat, go to the pub, or use a chat
line or the telphone.
>
>Neither is e-mail an all-consuming imperative. Who needs to know that
anyone of us is out-of-office ? Is one's work, indeed any of our work, so
life-and-death that our absence from the office for a few days actually
makes a difference ? The written letter from Joe Public is my first
priority, followed by several other telephone and internal priorities, with
e-mail a last priority. Use mailbase fora for intellectual discussion or
solving problems. Use your software to filter out junk mail. Otherwise,
I'm just not interested in knowing whether or not you or your proxy are at
the other end of the line, spoiling for a chat. Get real and get a life.
>
>Cheers, Neil
>
>
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