by Mark | Apr 20, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
Do you want to follow all of the Liberal Party candidate Twitter accounts (181 at the time of writing this post)? I’ve made a list available. All you have to do is click here to stay up to date on all Liberal candidate tweets. For those of you who are savvy, you...
by Mark | Apr 20, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
Do you want to follow all of the Conservative Party candidate Twitter accounts (135 at the time of writing this post)? I’ve made a list available. All you have to do is click here to stay up to date on all Conservative candidate tweets. For those of you who are...
by Mark | Apr 17, 2011 | Events and Conferences, Media, Politics, Print, Radio, Social Media, Television, Tools
I’m honoured to be both a speaker and panelist this Tuesday evening as part of an event hosted by the Canadian Journalism Foundation. The event is titled Social Media Meets Traditional Election Coverage and features journalists Chris Boutet, Kenyon Wallace and...
by Mark | Apr 14, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
Unless otherwise stated, this post looks at Election and debate Twitter traffic for the full day of April 13 (yesterday), only. It does not consider traffic from April 12 or today, though the analyzed traffic does include tweets related to ongoing election issues,...
by Mark | Apr 10, 2011 | Connecting, Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Promotion, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
It’s raining in Ottawa right now. Which makes it a crummy day to be on the campaign trail and a good day to be inside doing election analysis. I’ve been examining trends in the online discussion over the first two weeks of the election. It’s...
by Mark | Apr 10, 2011 | Connecting, Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Public Relations and Communications, Social Media, Tools
Social media are multi-dimensional. They’re really not as simple as a channels over which anyone can pump content; though, they are often used that way. I often talk about two major considerations which must be closely tied to goals (e.g. donations, feedback,...
