by Mark | Sep 28, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
Certain online activities give off a rank smell. I’ll admit I was tipped off by an NDP supporter on these. The investigations are my own. I reported on my blog last week about what appeared to be a Liberal supporter who was acting in a way that reflected badly...
by Mark | Sep 28, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
Ontario’s digitally-connected political enthusiasts took to Twitter for last night’s televised debate between Dalton McGuinty, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath. It was a gathering that combined to generate a lot of traffic which I analyzed using Sysomos...
by Mark | Sep 27, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
The #momthevote movement earned a healthy amount of national media and political attention during the federal election. The movement was organized to get mothers discussing election issues and rallying for mom voters on May 2. It was one of those efforts made possible...
by Mark | Sep 26, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
I’ve been fairly critical of the Ontario NDP’s use of digital in their election campaign. Well, to be fair, they’ve done very little well as a party. So, I was just YouTube surfing, following a chain of videos leading from a recent episode of...
by Mark | Sep 26, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
There’s little doubt Twitter will continue its dominance of online chatter about the Ontario provincial election. I’m tracking an average of 3761 tweets/day, roughly one third of the average number of daily tweets tracked during the federal election....
by Mark | Sep 23, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
As you can probably tell from my posts over the last few weeks, there’s a lot to analyze on the use of digital content and social media by the political campaigns. I find trends in digital conversations, particularly those during election campaigns, fascinating....
