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In other news… speed cameras and does online campaigning work?
Jonathan Calder reports how Cornish councillor Jeremy Rowe is finding Twitter useful as a way to communicate with residents in his area who are hard to reach through traditional politics. Cllr Rowe’s local experience compliments the message that Google search data gives about people wanting to find politicians on Twitter. (If you are a councillor [...]
Five stories you shouldn't miss: what firms don't understand about customers, keeping tabs on key data and more
Cross-posted from the MHP Communications blog, my monthly round-up of five stories to read: Welcome to the latest monthly collection of five weblinks that you shouldn’t miss, put together by the Digital Leadership Group. Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions this month. The Perception Gap: Customers don’t want what businesses think they want http://bit.ly/eU50VO Mitch Lieberman [...]
Google says to politicians: get on Twitter
When the public is searching for information about prominent politicians online, one of the most common things looked for is their Twitter account – so says the data from search engine giant Google. Chances are you’ve noticed that as you start typing a search term into Google’s search box, it tries to guess what you [...]
Online politics: get your content by following the ‘little and often’ rule
I’ve talked before about how slow and steady progress is usually the way to successful online politics (as in The secret to getting 1,000 ward residents to follow you on Twitter), but slow and steady progress often runs into a problem: where do you get the content from? Whether it’s building up an email list, [...]
UberSocial keyboard shortcuts
An update for my previous UberTwitter shortcuts list now that UberTwitter has become UberSocial: U – post a tweet (update) R – reply to tweet / person you are viewing K – reply to all D – send direct message to author of tweet you are viewing (unlike R, this doesn’t work when viewing a person) [...]
What not to tweet, part 94
From the Reading Post: The Lib Dem councillor at the centre of the “racist” Twitter storm has been suspended from his party. Cllr Warren Swaine quoted an Ali G catchphrase “Is it because I is black” in a tweet about mixed race Labour MP Chuka Umunna when he was appearing on Question Time… Henk van [...]
Financial Times on Twitter
Having often enough looked around for Twitter lists for the Financial Times and not found ones that quite suit my needs, I’ve created two for my own use – but happy for others to use these FT lists too if you find them useful: Financial Times automated news feeds on Twitter Financial Times journalists on [...]
Simon Wright makes it 31 LibDem MPs on Twitter
Good to see that Simon Wright, Liberal Democrat MP for Norwich South, is now on Twitter as @SimonWrightMP. You can follow all 31 of the Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter via the list I curate at http://twitter.com/#!/markpack/libdem-mps
