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Social media’s impact on politics, part one: the groups that face extinction

Welcome to a two-part series about the real impact social media (or social networking) is having on politics in Britain. In part one I look at the groups which face extinction, whilst in part two I will look at why pundits searching for the impact of social media on politics in 2010 are looking in [...]

Oddities about the Trafigura website: lessons for PR

13 October 2009 ,
I’ve been taking a wander round the Trafigura website after all the excitement yesterday and today. The state of the Trafigura website is the least of the company’s problems at the moment, but it still provides a useful example of the problems all sorts of firms can run in to with their own web presence. [...]

The most republished Parliamentary question ever? Trafigura and the Ivory Coast

13 October 2009 , ,
As The Spectator reports, the Guardian has had an injunction served on it preventing it reporting a written question table in Parliament. This being the internet age, not only is #trafigura a trending topic on Twitter but more substantively the question in answer has been (at the time of writing) republished verbatim  just under 300 times elsewhere [...]