Stuart Jones, a blogging accountant in Kendal, Cumbria, has an interesting post that shows that some UK PR people are monitoring blogs and responding to them.

Francis Taylor, a media relations officer at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (the new name for the merged Inland Reveune and Custom and Excise) to ask him that he refer to the new organisation by its proper name.

However, Stuart's response shows that he was not too impressed at what he saw as an attempt at message control.

Still it's good that HMRC is monitoring blogs and realises their importance. What would be really good is if they started thier own.

I think their is a real opportunity to show that the often despised "character blog" can work. Remember Hector the Tax Inspector from the adverts? He could come back with a blog with handy hints and tips on how to complete your tax return and also sorts of other helpful advice to help show that HMRC isn't really a faceless monolith that doesn't care about its customers.

Before I started my own business I was the in-house PR for accountants Grant Thornton and it would be great to combine that experience with my blogging expertise. How about it HMRC, fancy a meeting to at least talk about it?