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New timeline for Facebook pages infographic

By + on March 27, 2012 in Business, Politics, Public Affairs, Social Networks

I’m currently writing a more detailed guide to how politicians and campaigners can use the new timeline for Facebook pages, but in the meantime here’s an interesting infographic from iFrame Apps:

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A reflection on 2011

By + on December 30, 2011 in Business, corporate communications, Politics, Public Affairs, public relations, Self Promotion, social media

This year has been one of the most tumultuous ever for me. It has had its highs and its lows. It has seen me make momentous decisions that have changed my life for the better. The year started with several discussions with companies that were interested in acquiring or investing in Wolfstar. For a variety [...]

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Edelman Capital Staffers Index 2011

By + on December 10, 2011 in corporate communications, Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

Edelman and StrategyOne, its global public affairs team, has just released the 2011 Capital Staffers Index which ‘analyses top trends in global public affairs and communications.’ It’s the third such annual report and is based on interviews with more than 500 senior staffers (legislative directors and above – not sure what job title this translates [...]

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Bell Pottinger Uzbekistan: a maelstrom in a teacup?

By + on December 6, 2011 in Business, Ethics, Government, Journalism, Politics, Public Affairs, Reputation Management, social media

It seems a month can’t go by without Bell Pottinger, the UK’s self-styled ‘leading’ lobbying company, embroiling itself in a scandal. Today’s Independent article has certainly sparked off a plethora of criticism and commentary, much of it ill-informed and ill-conceived. It’s important to try and separate fact from fiction and cut through the spin on [...]

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TUC using video to win public support for public sector strikes

By + on November 29, 2011 in Politics, Public Affairs, Video

From a professional communications perspective it’s interesting to see how the TUC (Trades Union Congress) is making good use of online video. Yesterday a poll about the Day of Action for the BBC showed that 61% of the public believe public sector workers are justified in going on strike over pension changes. It will be [...]

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Greg Hands MP and Michael Dugher MP on the etiquette of Twitter

By + on November 7, 2011 in Politics, Reputation Management, social media

In this morning’s round-up of the Hansard Society roundtable on social media campaigning I wrote about the ‘lack of understanding and expertise in new social media channels.’ I didn’t realise at the time that Tory MP Greg Hands was providing us with a text book example that very morning. Much of today’s political Twitter conversation [...]

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Social media campaigning in Westminster

By + on November 7, 2011 in Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

Building an effective social media campaign was the theme of a Hansard Society and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) roundtable I attended in Portcullis House at Westminster last week. It was a two part event with the first half consisting of campaign ‘insiders’ and the second of campaign ‘observers’. The first half was chaired [...]

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Live video stream of London Conference on Cyberspace #LondonCyber

By + on November 1, 2011 in Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

Very impressed that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is providing embed codes for the London Conference on Cyberspace #LondonCyber Live stream one Live stream two

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Who is winning the UK political social media battle?

By + on October 31, 2011 in Infographic, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

Meltwater and The Holmes Report have created an infographic of the UK’s political social media scene. The report focuses on the volume and sentiment of online buzz for David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, from May to September of this year, searching through more than 200 million sources to provide insight into the popularity [...]

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Social media in UK politics infographic

By + on October 28, 2011 in Infographic, Politics, social media

Yatterbox, the University of York spin-out start-up that archives UK and US social media output, has released this infographic of social media in UK politics.

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