A Coalition Christmas – broken promises says Labour
This is a neat little idea, it has probably been done before, but I like it. The Labour Party has put up a Coalition advent calendar on its website where each day reveals a broken promise. Read more on...
View ArticleLabour online campaign misfires with pictures of the coalition
Labour’s digital comms team is coming underfire today for an online campaign that has put smiling pictures of David Cameron and Nick Clegg on its website. You can see what the party was trying to do....
View Article2012 London Mayoral Election – social media overview [infographic]
The 2012 London mayoral election is less than a week away and social channels have played a large role in this campaign with both Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone’s teams making good use of it as have...
View ArticleMajor flaws in Conservative, Labour and Lib Dems digital campaigns
A report out today, timed to coincide with the local and London Mayoral elections, has found major flaws in the digital campaigns of the man parties. All three appear to have fallen back from the kind...
View ArticleTory MPs run into Twitter problems – two tales of social media failings
Conservative MPs often seem like the most unnatural of Tweeters and to prove a point yesterday two Tory MPs showed how not to do social media. Most amusingly, Alec Shelbrooke, a relative newbie to...
View ArticleDavid Cameron passes 100,000 followers with dig at bookmakers
UPDATE -David Cameron last night passed the 100,000 follower milestone. It was a quick canter to six figures for the Prime Minister who marked the occasion with his ninth Tweet and a little dig at some...
View ArticleBritish Party conference season breaks Twitter records with one million tweets
Party political conference season has dominated UK Twitter over the last few weeks. Followers have keenly Tweeted key quotes and messages while following the conference debates on television, while...
View ArticleTwitter gaffes show Tories still grappling with subtleties of digital...
The by-election to replace shamed Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne is heating up, and the Conservative Party yesterday came in for criticism after many of its MPs tweeted exactly the same phrase attacking...
View ArticleHow news of Margaret Thatcher’s death spread on social media [infographic]
As news of Margaret Thatcher’s death broke yesterday lunchtime it was ITV that won the race on Twitter after the Press Association sent out its historic news flash while the BBC had the most read...
View ArticleConservatives under pressure as they delete web archive
The Conservative Party have taken the very odd decision to to remove a decade of speeches and press releases from their official party website. Computer Weekly noticed that the content from between...
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