Mark Hanson, Labour's new media strategist and former associate editor of LabourHome.org, wangled me an invitation to a formal review of how digital media innovations had changed UKElection2010. The social media mavens closest to ElectionUK2010...
UKElection2010: Lessons Learned from Watching First Social Media Battle of Britain For us this wasn't the Internet election, it was the word of mouth election, where, finally, the people were involved.
In fact, the party's most popular video was Labservative General Election Manifesto, which was on a spoof channel. I started my coverage of UKElection2010 by quoting part of Winston Churchill's famous speech, "We shall fight them on the beaches.
The Guardian.co.uk is providing live coverage of the latest exit polls and election results from across the UK with Andrew Sparrow. General Election2010: five possible result scenarios for the Conservatives (telegraph.co.uk)
According to Benjamin Cohen of Channel 4 in the UK, "Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats win the Facebook election. So, if tomorrow's UKElection2010 results in a hung parliament, we may see the learning curve compressed in Britain's second...
UKElection2010: The Dog That Didn't Bark UKElection2010: What Does Dan Berman Think? UKElection2010: For Want of a Nail, the Shoe was Lost This has been the TV debate election. In that sense this hasn't been the Internet election; it's been...
So, as we get ready to discover the outcome of UKElection2010, it's worth thinking about solving the "why" puzzle by leveraging qualitative data as well as the question of "how many" people liked a party's Facebook page, followed its Twitter...
And I predicted that UKElection2010 "will be fought on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs. According to the general election2010: poll of polls in guardian.co.uk, Conservatives lead with 35.75 percent, Labour is second with 28.00 percent, and...
That's a fair question, considering the measurable impact that the televised debates among the leaders of the Labor Party, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats have had on the polls leading up to the May 6 election.
For example, ChuckE, Woking, Surrey, asked, "78% of the voting population didn't vote for the government in the 2005 election, yet the government won a majority of seats and a "mandate" to govern. Ten of the most popular questions from across five...
Later today, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will participate in the YouTube Facebook Digital Debate, adding a new social media dimension the UKelection in 2010. General Election2010: first 'digital debate' on Facebook and YouTube...
Has the UK General Election Just Experienced its First Real 'Twitter Moment'? UKElection2010: What's So Bad About a Hung Parliament? Catapulted into the lead in the opinion polls, he then faced an intensive round of negative, personal, and often...
In other words, it's trench warfare in social media as well as mainstream media in the UKelection2010, where each party battles in no man's land for a few yards of ground. The top term in this week's UKelection2010 seems to be "hung Parliament.
After decades of talking about it, finally the 2010 British general election is featuring televised debates between the party leaders. Liberal Democrats Use Serious and Funny Videos in UK General Election
Gellard recently used Facebook to garner grassroots support to persuade the party to adopt a film that was popular among its members as a recent partyelection broadcast. Liberal Democrats Use Serious and Funny Videos in UK General Election
Yesterday, the guardian.co.uk general election2010: poll of polls showed the Conservatives with 34 percent (down more than 5 points from the previous Sunday), Labour with over 28 percent (down less than 3 points from the previous Sunday), and the...
So, yes, offline media will have an impact on the outcome of the UK general election as well as online media. Yesterday, the leaders of the three largest British parties borrowed an American political tradition by taking part in the UK's first live...
One of the more popular videos in the UK general election on webcameronuk's channel is entitled "An invitation to join the government of Britain. General election2010: David Cameron issues call to arms (telegraph.co.uk)
Labour manifesto exclusive: inside Alexander and Miliband's "word of mouth" election (newstatesman.com) In the past two days, the UK Labour Party has uploaded several videos to its YouTube channel that are a departure from what we've seen to date.
UKElection2010: Sitting on the Fence for a Fortnight UK General Election "Least Well-Kept Secret of Recent Years" So, over here in the U.K.we're in the thick of our election campaign. Our set-up is different to the U.S.with a much shorter...