As the Social Media ’09 conference before Christmas, I talked about the revamping of Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone’s website which I was involved in last year. Comparing Lynne’s very first website from 1999 (hand written flat file HTML) with her current site (database driven WordPress site), it’s not just the look but also the technologies which have changed hugely in that decade.
You can now watch an edited version of my talk over on the Social Media ’09 site, with a fuller transcript on the site below the clip and my slides are here.
(Memo to self after watching clip: unless you are touring a hospital ward, you don’t make much eye contact with people by looking down towards the floor.)
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[...] The launch of the report included handing out a set of prizes, as Mark Thompson has reported. Particular congratulations to Lynne Featherstone (Lib Dem MP for Hornsey & Wood Green and now a Home Office minister) who scooped the prize for Best Use Of Digital Campaigning By A Candidate. In various ways I've been helping Lynne with her websites since I hand-crafted the HTML for her very first back in 1999. I talked a little about the latest revamp at the Social Media 09 conference last year – see more details here. [...]