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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RFDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Regional Formation and Development Studies</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2351-6542</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-9370</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">08_STUMBRAITE</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/rfds.v47i3.2766</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Article</subject>
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      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Newsletter Invitations for Organisations to be Involved in Managing Local Affairs in Klaipėda City Municipality</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Stumbraitė-Vilkišienė</surname>
            <given-names>Edita</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:edita.stumbraite-vilkisiene@ku.lt">edita.stumbraite-vilkisiene@ku.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_RFDS_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_RFDS_aff_000">Klaipėda University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>47</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>109</fpage>
      <lpage>123</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>04</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Modern technologies open up new communication opportunities not only in private life, but also in the public sector. As the government</p>
        <p>closest to the population, local government must seek acceptable and effective means of external communication, both with</p>
        <p>individual members of society and with various organisations that contribute to solving relevant local issues in municipalities. For</p>
        <p>a long time, local printed newspapers have been used by municipalities as a reliable channel for distributing important information.</p>
        <p>Today, news is easily accessible electronically, so local newspapers are being replaced by newsletters subscribed to on municipal</p>
        <p>websites. The article analyses the data in the newsletter distributed by the Klaipėda city municipality administration as a means of</p>
        <p>disseminating information and communicating with interested organisations for 2023 and 2024. The aim is to assess what participation</p>
        <p>opportunities are offered to organisations by the Klaipėda city municipality administration. After conducting an empirical</p>
        <p>qualitative study based on the results obtained, using the content analysis method, it was assessed how often organisations operating</p>
        <p>in the area of Klaipėda city municipality in 2023 and 2024 were invited to engage in various activities related to public affairs, and</p>
        <p>in what areas, and in what ways the participation of organisations was expected in managing local affairs.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>opportunities for organisational participation</kwd>
        <kwd>management of local affairs</kwd>
        <kwd>ways for organisational participation</kwd>
        <kwd>newsletter</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
      <kwd-group kwd-group-type="JEL CODES">
        <label>JEL CODES</label>
        <kwd>D71</kwd>
        <kwd>D78</kwd>
        <kwd>H11</kwd>
        <kwd>K15</kwd>
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