It’s been a fascinating week in Canadian politics. Many of the events highlight how the Internet, specifically social media, is making it increasingly possible for the public to organize and reach–possibly influence–our elected decision makers. As I...
Klout.com is a bit of a controversial service among social media analysts. It uses some fancy math to evaluate the level of influence a social media participant has based on the level of output, engagement and mentions by others. An overall Klout score is assigned,...
Conservative MP Patrick Brown has been getting some media attention lately for being “the first Canadian MP to have launched a free iPhone app” and one of the first Canadian politicians to embrace QR codes (see article in iPolitics). Actually, neither...
This post was part of my coverage of the Liberal Party’s Biennial convention for iPolitics.ca. And, with thanks to Arrested Development for the post title. There’s a great deal of focus on “digital” at the Liberal Convention. There are...
This post was part of my coverage of the Liberal Party’s Biennial convention for iPolitics.ca. Don Tapscott is an Internet celebrity. Digital folk know him and admire him. They’ve read his books (Wikinomics, Growing Up Digital, Grown Up Digital and others)...
This post was part of my coverage of the Liberal Party’s Biennial convention for iPolitics.ca. The Liberal convention achieved something yesterday that I wasn’t expecting to see. It generated just shy of 9,000 tweets for the day. If you have followed my...
