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Today’s Lib Dem Flashmobs – a planned, spontaneous, orderly uprising. All...
LDV reported on Saturday that the independent Lib Dem Facebook fan group LibDem2010.com – now numbering well over 163,000 members – had hit upon the idea of organising ‘Flashmobs’ up and down the...
View ArticleOpinion: Social media enhances our campaigns
In one sense I’m disappointed the election is over. Returning from my own self imposed wilderness at the dismalness of the political scene to the local fold in New Forest East has been a revelation to...
View ArticleWhither the professional journalist when we all write for free?
The Guardian reports on the 19-strong “Facebook Users’ Union” which wants Facebook’s users to have more control over where the company’s money goes. …people are effectively working for free to create...
View ArticleDo Tweets win seats? – Micro-blogging and politics
Politicos use Twitter to communicate with voters, activists and the media. It’s sociable and fashionable. It’s useful but it has its limits. And if this was Twitter I’d stop there, for the paragraph...
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Doubling your traffic from Facebook: how best to integrate Twitter, Facebook...
Many Liberal Democrat councillors and campaigners have both a Twitter account and a Facebook profile alongside their blog or website. Linking the three together efficiently can greatly increase the...
View ArticleOpinion: social media priorities
The last article I wrote conjoured up a utopian vision of Liberal Democrat e-campaigning. However, it might not be a realistic aim for individuals or groups who lack social media expertise, or time, to...
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“In a civil union” now a relationship status option on Facebook
Facebook has updated its list of options for displaying a user’s relationship status. You can now choose “In a civil union” or “In a domestic partnership” from a list which previously consisted of...
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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...
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Lessons from Barack Obama, round two
Here we go again. As Barack Obama hits the online campaign trail for his 2012 re-election campaign, expect a trickle, then a steady flow and finally a flood of posts about how Obama’s online...
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Campaigners! Get the new Facebook app #YES2AV #LibDems
Lib Dem Voice have launched a new Facebook app to make it easy for you to let your friends on Facebook and Twitter know what campaigning you’ve been doing. This is a great way of building up a buzz...
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Use the new Facebook app while campaigning this weekend #YES2AV #LibDems
When you’re out campaigning this weekend for the elections and Fairer Votes referendum, make sure you let your friends on Facebook and Twitter know what you’ve been up to. Hundreds of people are...
View ArticleOpinion: Don’t reform the House of Lords; scrap it
After the humiliating defeat of the AV referendum, a system to which no party aspired to before the General Election, and the disastrous rout of elected Lib Dems in Scotland and England, serious...
View ArticleOpinion: The struggle for democracy persists in Europe, not just the Middle East
In December last year, Alyaksandr Lukashenka was re-elected president of Belarus, with 79.7% of the vote in elections deemed to fall massively short of OSCE standards. Under his leadership, the...
View ArticleOpinion: Traditional media is not all we should be looking at
It’s not often I agree with a Conservative MP, it’s even less often that I hear them say something that actually strikes me as truly insightful. During the parliamentary debate on the BSkyB bid there...
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Campaign Corner: How can I best use Facebook?
The Campaign Corner series looks to give three tips about commonly asked campaign issues. Do get in touch if you have any questions you would like to suggest. Today’s Campaign Corner question: How can...
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Opinion: Calling All Bloggers – Don’t make me a tax avoidance accomplice
According to Vince Cable “No one keeps their cash in tax havens for the quality of investment advice; these are sunny places for shady people.” True to form, Vince hit the nail squarely on its head...
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Scottish Liberal Democrats launch new Facebook page
Ahead of Scottish Conference in Dundee this weekend, Scottish Liberal Democrats have launched a new Facebook page for news, views, infographics and pictures about the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Their...
View ArticleMPs under attack again – for claiming mileage for doing their jobs
Having Nigel Farage on Question Time again was more than enough to make my blood boil last night. Sadly, even my Facebook timeline had little to soothe. I saw an 18 month old story being recycled again...
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Danny Alexander doing Facebook Q and A on Scottish Independence Referendum...
Danny Alexander will be answering questions on Facebook tonight for half an hour from 6 pm. If you have a question, you can submit it via the “You Decide” Facebook page which is run by the...
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Opinion: Put revenge pornographers on the Sex Offenders Register
Facebook has just been served with its first revenge porn lawsuit. I can’t comment on the particulars of the case in question but it does appear that revenge porn is an issue the law has yet to catch...
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