by Mark | Apr 3, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Legal, Politics, Social Media
Last night I blogged about the apparently fake Twitter account @DKonstantinakos which was venturing into libel territory in the way it presented Conservative candidate for Ottawa Centre, Damian Konstantinakos (whose real Twitter handle is @votedamiancpc). In...
by Mark | Apr 3, 2011 | Connecting, Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
For most of the last week, I’ve been looking at the volume of election related traffic on Twitter, blogs and forums. In the process it’s become clear that Twitter’s primary role in #elxn41 is to serve as an amplifier, pushing out messages and...
by Mark | Apr 3, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media
I’ll be following the online stream for the Liberal town hall to report any stats and share any analysis. You can follow in the liveblog window, below. Liberal town hall
by Mark | Apr 2, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Legal, Politics, Social Media
I promised myself I wasn’t going to blog again so soon after finishing an epic series on the role of digital during the first week of the election campaign. Then, just before packing it in for the night, I discovered some trouble brewing in the digital version...
by Mark | Apr 2, 2011 | Connecting, Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
Part 5 of this analysis looked at the parties. Ahhh… the final post in my week 1 in review recap. Like the previous one about parties, I expect this analysis of the leaders will be of particular interest to the campaign teams (I wonder who from the campaign...
by Mark | Apr 2, 2011 | Digital Public Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Tools
Part 3 of this analysis looked at Blogs. While a somewhat dated way to engage with others online, discussion forums are still somewhat popular in certain communities. Productive discussion forums thrive through the informed contributions on niche subjects –...
