I’ve got a post on its way about Social Media, Web 2.0 and how it all might make a difference to the election; in the mean time, I thought I’d get some quick links up that you may find of interest. Have to say I think all the parties need to up their game in online campaigning for the Newbury constituency! If you’ve got any more links relevant to the election, feel free to drop them in the comments.
Note for Twitter, use the hashtags #GE2010 and #Newbury combined for election tweeting – the more who get involved, the better!
Newbury Today Forum – a robust discussion already well underway about the election there!
Morgan PR – has a series of excellent election articles, and offering the chance to ask questions of the candidates
Richard Benyon Supporters’ Group on Facebook
David Rendel Fan Page & Supporters Group on Facebook
All of these Facebook groups are more quiet than I would expect – room for improvement here…
Newbury Forum, also on Twitter
And finally a few national initiatives:
The Straight Choice – comparing election leaflets across the UK
Winkball Election 2010 – capturing video messages from all the candidates – no Newbury ones as yet…
The Digital Debate on Facebook and YouTube – great use of social media!
(I found these last ones on Rory Cellan-Jones’ excellent BBC blog)
That’s all for now, I may well edit this post if and when I find out about anything else!
UPDATE 14/04/2010:
Richard Benyon now has a fan page on Facebook.
Adrian Hollister, the Green party candidate, is also on Twitter.
I still think there’s a great deal more all the candidates could be doing, including engaging in more conversations online – not much time left now though I suppose! I’m also astonished that neither of the two main candidates appear to be announcing their campaign schedules – surely if you want people to vote for you, you should let them know where you’ll be so they can meet you and ask questions? Maybe I’m just missing the announcements? If anyone knows more, drop me a line.
