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The Government’s farcical slowness over updating election imprint rules
Six years on from receiving a recommendation from the Electoral Commission that existing legal powers should be used to clarify how the rules regarding election imprints apply to internet campaigning, the Government has still failed to act. This is despite the Government acknowledging in its official response to the recommendation the “importance” of getting this [...]
Portsmouth Council rejoices at discovery staff only spending 11 seconds a day on Facebook
There has been widespread praise for Portsmouth Council after it was discovered that on average its staff only spend 11 seconds a day using Facebook. Despite the huge growth in the number of people using Facebook and the growing number of hours spent on the site by its users, Portsmouth Council staff are barely using [...]
Ten top internet tips for councillors
Cross-posted from Dave Press, where I did a guest slot last week: It is pretty rare these days to find a councillor who doesn’t use the internet, at least occasionally. However, in part because the average age of councillors means that the vast majority are not ‘internet natives’, that often does not amount to much [...]
More people use Facebook in the UK than it takes to elect a government
A bit of whimsical statistical trivia for the bank holiday weekend:
Number of votes won by the winning party at the 2005 general election: 9.6 million (BBC)
Number of Facebook users in the UK: 11.2 million (TechCrunch)
(Before anyone starts threatening me with a slide-rule: yes, this does compare apples and oranges a bit since Facebook’s minimum age [...]
Is "What Would Google Do?" the right question?
The title of Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do? book is a deliberate echo of the American phrase, “What would Jesus do?” Whilst for Christians asking what Jesus would do in particular situations makes sense, does Google have a similar role of authority over everyone’s business lives for Jeff Jarvis’s question to make sense? At [...]
MPs on Facebook: leading the way or forgetting to change the defaults?
Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire:
A new studyof MPs on Facebook shows widespread use of the social network by Parliamentarians, but also a range of curious choices about how to use the medium which may in part reflect a failure to change default settings.
The study, carried out by Woodnewton Associates and based on evidence gathered in May [...]
Fortune's fastest growing companies: internet largely absent
The latest Fortune 500 listings of the fastest growing, most profitable, biggest and so on American companies is out. What’s striking is that whilst business books telling us all about how the future is in the online world, the online world gets only a brief look in in these lists. Take the 20 fastest growing [...]
