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Adrian Sanders MP calls for new focus on Community Politics
If 2006 was the year of the renaissance of 007, 2007 could be the renaissance of the Lib Dems. Despite taking a seat from Labour in a great Parliamentary by-election victory, launching the most radical...
View ArticleScottish LD candidate comes a cropper thanks to social network websites
Be careful what your friends post. Incidentally, if you use MySpace / Facebook et al there is a school of thought which suggests that under the principle of better safe than sorry, you should consider...
View ArticleElected Lib Dem Bloggers: The List
There’s still time to vote in the 2007 Lib Dem Blog of the Year contest, to nominate blogs for our expert panel. Find out more here. But who, you may struggle to recall, is a publicly-elected Lib Dem...
View ArticleBrian Paddick has a new website
Oooh, that’s nice, and it looks to come with the full set of social networking – not just Facebook, but also Myspace, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and (new today) Eventful.
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Are UK politicians right to concentrate on Facebook?
Take a look round Facebook, and you’ll find multiple examples of all the main political parties, and their MPs, making use of it to promote their wares and network with supporters. However, look at...
View ArticleA case of media bias? The Sun, MySpace and Facebook
Is The Sun (owner: Rupert Murdoch) indulging in a campaign of partisan reporting designed to damage Facebook, one of the main rivals to MySpace (owner: Rupert Murdoch)? That’s a question that has been...
View ArticleWhat next for social networking?
Predicting which companies and software are going to prosper and which are going to fizzle and disappear is a notoriously unreliable business, but it certainly looks at the moment as if Facebook,...
View ArticleBook review: What should you be getting up to on the internet?
Should politicians blog? Does it matter if a local party has a website that allows comments or not? Is it a good idea for a councillor to stick a film of themselves up on YouTube? Is the local party...
View ArticleUS Presidential election: Facebook is the winner
Total number of Facebook supporters for Obama and McCain: 2,602,269 Total number of MySpace supporters for Obama and McCain: 1,024,128 (Figures from TechPresident.com, as of 31 October, via Weekly...
View ArticleTories have “very little to show” for £1m online spend
The Conservative Party has spent £500,000 on a campaign to launch supporters’ groups on four social networking websites: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and iVillage. However, research by the Financial Times...
View ArticleWhy do MPs use Facebook?
Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire: When it comes to social media, Facebook is pretty much it as far as MPs go. For example, of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet members, 100% have a public email...
View ArticleFacebook pages: big changes on the way
Inside Facebook has the story about changes due in the next few weeks: With the Pages redesign, business Pages will now look much more like Facebook profile pages. According to information provided to...
View Article“Taxpayers don’t want Web 2.0!”
So runs the rather foolish quote from the Taxpayers’ Alliance in a story from the Daily Express expressing outrage at a job ad for a Director of Digital Engagement. The Government should have better...
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