Digital Makeover: Olivia Chow
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Digital Makeover: Olivia Chow

Today’s digital makeover showcases an MP who is well positioned to get to the next level. A few steps are still necessary.

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No touching
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No touching

It’s all in the delivery, and Thomas Mulcair’s begs the question “has anyone in this caucus even seen a banana stand?”

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Digital Makeover: Alex Atamanenko
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Digital Makeover: Alex Atamanenko

NDP MP Alex Atamanenko has a very small digital ecosystem. Today’s digital makeover identifies ways to make it more effective and meaningful.

How Social Media is Changing Politics and Reporting at CJFJtalk (2 of 2)
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How Social Media is Changing Politics and Reporting at CJFJtalk (2 of 2)

Some of the many key points raised by MPs Megan Leslie (NDP) and Marc Garneau (Liberal) and Mayor Jim Watson on the CJFJtalk political panel on social media.

Digital Makeover: Rathika Sitsabaiesan
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Digital Makeover: Rathika Sitsabaiesan

This week’s digital makeover features an MP who is among the most digitally savvy yet still has an “achilles heel.”

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Digital Makeover: Françoise Boivin
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Digital Makeover: Françoise Boivin

According to her digitial makeover, Françoise Boivin is doing many of the right things as an MP in the age of the participatory web.

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Digital Makeover: Laurin Liu
By February 11, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Digital Makeover: Laurin Liu

Ms. Liu might still be learning the political ropes, which could make being comfortable in her role as an MP affect her digital activities.

Tweeting MPs and #IdleNoMore
By January 13, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Tweeting MPs and #IdleNoMore

If Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett were her own political party, she would have led all other parties combined in tweets mentioning Idle No More.

2012 in digital public affairs and communication: a rear-view
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2012 in digital public affairs and communication: a rear-view

A summary list of 2012 highlights in digital public affairs and communication.

Analysis of Jack Layton’s online memorial
By August 23, 2012 0 Comments Read More →

Analysis of Jack Layton’s online memorial

Jack Layton tributes were held across the country yesterday, the first anniversary of his death. The tributes and commentary also poured out online. I used Marketwire/Sysomos MAP to do some analysis of the activity. Here is a summary of what I observed. Jack Layton was mentioned or referenced online 10,159 times, yesterday. Twitter was the most [...]

Investigation into the DDoS attack on #ndpldr vote ends
By August 15, 2012 0 Comments Read More →

Investigation into the DDoS attack on #ndpldr vote ends

There were a number of big stories in Canadian politics at the end of March. In the technology files, there was significant buzz about the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the online voting system used by the NDP to elect their new leader. I wrote Welcome to Cloud(y) Politics and Can cloud politics [...]

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Presentation is all in the delivery
By March 25, 2012 0 Comments Read More →

Presentation is all in the delivery

The NDP Leadership convention and the digital campaigning of the last seven candidates has provided me with even more data and ideas. That’s the gift of our electoral system of late. It’s provided ample and diverse examples of cloud politics in practice at a variety of levels: municipal, provincial, federal, provincial party convention, federal party [...]