Following on from Friday's post on Labour's Twitter lead , research says that Gordon Brown has a lot of ground to make up with Britain's 30m online social network users as he looks to make his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this week. Of course, his social media reputation...
We should all welcome Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s return to YouTube this week. He was criticised by Cabinet colleagues (aka our ‘Communities’ Minister, Hazel Blears) and widely ridiculed by the media for his ‘MP expenses’ video late last month. But Brown knows only too well that we now live in a world...
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is hosting its fourth annual Engage conference at the Mermaid Conference and Event Centre in Blackfriars. Guy Phillipson, chief executive at the IAB, is introducing the programme and his opening remarks are as follows: The theme for this year’s conference is "Who's...
An historic election and a welcome historic victory for Barack Obama that was called online by some of the big political blogs and news sites before the US TV networks, which having been burned by exit polls in 2000 and 2004 took the cautious route. There's already been an avalanche written about...
There are so many ways to follow the US election tonight, but one proving really popular is Twitter. Twittervotereport.com gives constant updates from across the US while the polls are open including the current length of queues, which has been one eye opening features of this very exciting US election...
How do the two US presidential candidates fare on the various social networking websites that take up so much of our valuable time? Glad you asked, luckily the Scottish-based social media company, Yomego has compiled a list: MySpace On its Impact Channel, where young voters can watch the live debates...
The Barack Obama campaign is an unprecedented advertising and marketing machine that is now running four times as many ads as John McCain. It has also been the most diverse and smart marketing campaign we've ever seen in politics, or elsewhere for that matter, and no surprise that he has been named...
