I am posting this message for two reasons:-
1. For one small group on the latest Anke Holst course at the unlibrary to have an example of the sort of thing one can do. I am sending this message as an email from my ordinary desktop account to Posterous. The message text then goes on my posterous blog davidbarry.posterous.com where anyone can look at it, and find it using google. It also gets posted automatically to my twitter account. I could, if I wanted have sent it to a wordpress blog, if I had one, and to my facebook page. So I send one message and people can read it in a number of ways. In fact whatever way they want to read it. Note how I have tagged it for Twitter.
2. And in fulfillment of an election promise. I have just been re elected to the Islington Schools Forum. The Schools Forum makes decisions about school finance in Islington. It also makes recomendations to the government. Its a really important body but not many school governors really know what it does. In my election "campaign" literature I promised if re elected to start using social media so that people would be able to find out more easily about the doings of the Forum with it's big impact on their children's education. Today I am going to a meeting where we are going to discuss the way in which the education grant to Islington is calculated, and to see if there is a way we could get a better deal for our children. More on that later!