Introducing first, in the "we need search neutrality because Google is destroying Britain" corner: Graham Jones, Labour MP for Hyndburn. UK SEO Spend Increases 16% in 2010 Many search engines, including the most popular, have local versions that...
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 UK Election 2010. From the UK, speakers included Stella Creasy...
But the Labour word-of-mouth campaign just wouldn't roll over and let it happen. Labour has invested in the right technology, such as our virtual phone bank tool that generated 60,000 calls (a big number in a U.K.context), the kind of CRM system...
This may help explain why none of the 11 organizations that released polls in advance of UK Election 2010 nailed the actual results: Conservatives 36.9 percent, Labour 29.7 percent, and Liberal Democrats 23.6 percent.
The exit poll has Conservatives winning 305 seats, Labour winning 255, Lib Dems winning 61, and others winning 29. Sparrow adds, "Under these figures, Labour and the Lib Dems would outnumber the Tories - just.
The challenge for the campaigns has been to involve members and supporters in a deeper and more interactive way, to generate weight behind the Labour message, and to involve them in an important event.
It has found that 42 percent support Nick Clegg of the LibDems to become prime minister, putting him ahead of 31 percent who support David Cameron of the Conservatives and 27 percent who support Gordon Brown of Labour.
Mark Hanson's Labour's View Columns UK Election 2010: For Want of a Nail, the Shoe was Lost UK Election 2010: The Dog That Didn't Bark UK Election 2010: What Does Dan Berman Think? Editor's note: This column is part of a series dedicated to looking...
The share of vote, with Conservatives getting 35 percent, Liberal Democrats 28 percent, and Labour 28 percent; A seat forecast, predicting that Conservatives will win 325 seats in Parliament, Labour 212, LibDems 86, and other parties 27;
UK Labour's Twitter followers barely moved from 15,371 to 15,997. According to the general election 2010: poll of polls in guardian.co.uk, Conservatives lead with 35.75 percent, Labour is second with 28.00 percent, and Liberal Democrats are third...
Baseball nerd who predicted Obama's win foresees Labour meltdown (guardian.co.uk) If the election were held yesterday (and it won't be held until May 6), then Conservatives would have won 33.5 percent of the vote, Liberal Democrats would have won...
But Labour's early YouTube videos featured Tony Blair, a unnamed man on "The Road Ahead," animated manifesto films, and Eddie Izzard. With less than a week to go, some commentators on the UK Election 2010 are asking, "This was meant to be the...
Mark Hanson's Labour's View Columns Has the UK General Election Just Experienced its First Real 'Twitter Moment'? UK Election 2010: What's So Bad About a Hung Parliament? Editor's note: This column is part of a series dedicated to looking at the...
UK Labour's Twitter followers barely moved from 14,693 to 15,371. Labour and Liberal Democrats are tied with 28.0 percent, roughly were they were a week earlier. The most popular Labour video with 87,290 views is Eddie Izzard - Brilliant Britain.
At the same time, the Conservatives have dropped from 38.00 percent to 32.50 percent, and Labour has dropped from 31.17 percent to 26.88 percent. Has UK Election 2010 just experienced its first real "Twitter moment"?
Labour's View: Interactive Videos Launches New Era in Politics The phrase "I agree with Nick" was uttered several times by Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown during the debate, presumably in a pre-planned attempt to appeal to Lib Dems to switch to...
UK Labour Party Unveils "The Road Ahead" and Animated Manifesto Films We've produced a set of interactive videos, hosted on YouTube and supported by a microsite, which allow viewers to explore Labour's plans for government for themselves; combining...
Yesterday, the guardian.co.uk general election 2010: 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...
Alastair Stewart of ITN hosted Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party, Conservative Party leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as they discussed domestic affairs before a Manchester TV studio audience.
However, courtesy of social media, the Tory and Labour poster launches this year have spawned a host of humorous edited pastiches, which have often generated far more media coverage and more online views than the original, official poster.
