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Not PR or Wolfstar, but Stuart Bruce on politics

By + on May 6, 2010 in Politics, Self Promotion

If you’re just interested in business, PR or social media then don’t read this post on my politics blog.

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Labour iPhone app boosts voter contact

By + on April 28, 2010 in Business, Politics, Self Promotion, social media, Social Networks

It looks like all reporting of new media innovation in the election campaign by the MSM is now being seen through the same yellow prism of all their other reporting i.e. look for things that make the Liberal Democrats look good/bad and get it in the paper. In the last week we’ve seen breathless reporting [...]

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Business and politics don’t mix – who you trying to kid?

By + on April 27, 2010 in Business, Politics, public relations

Tonight I went along to my very first Bootlaw event – and it was brilliant. Danvers Baillieu and Barry Vitou ran a great session on ‘Social Media Attacks’. If you’ve never been to a Bootlaw session I’d highly recommend you do. In business some people think it’s a big taboo to talk too much about [...]

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Leaders’ Debate live Qik video streaming

By + on April 22, 2010 in Politics, Video

This evening I’m at at Leaders’ Debate party with Eddie Izzard and Hilary Benn. As usual I’ll be tweeting furiously during the debate and afterwards I plan to do some immediate live video streaming interviews. You can watch them here on my Qik Live Channel: I’ll be using a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 for the [...]

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Social media and YouTube to get you voting

By + on April 20, 2010 in Government, Politics, social media, Social Networks, Video

Iain Dale and Total Politics magazine have released a cracking YouTube video of Bucks Fizz’s Eurovison winner ‘Making Your Mind Up’ to encourage people to vote. It features a host of famous political figures and celebrities including Alastair Campbell, Ann Widdicombe, Nigel Farage, Chris Mullin, Phil Willis, Peter Tatchell, Lynne Featherstone, all-party band MP4 and [...]

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Vote Match from The Telegraph matches your views to party policies

By + on April 15, 2010 in Government, Media, Politics

The Telegraph has a great tool that enables you answer a quick quiz to assess your views on a wide range of different policies and then tells you how closely your views match those of the different political parties. It even enables you to embed it on your own website, which is what I’ve done [...]

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Professional social media v. personal social media – lessons from Stuart MacLennan

By + on April 9, 2010 in Business, Politics, Reputation Management, social media, Social Networks

Stuart MacLennan is the first candidate in the UK general election 2010 to be forced to resign / be sacked as a parliamentary candidate because of their behaviour on social media / social networks. The most interesting aspect of this to me isn’t the political one, but the professional business one. As more and more [...]

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You’ve got to vote

By + on April 6, 2010 in Government, Politics

Today our Prime Minister Gordon Brown will visit the Queen and ask to dissolve Parliament thus firing the starting gun for a General Election on Thursday May 6. LISTEN UP, YES THAT’S YOU I’M TALKING TO. I’m not sorry for shouting, this is important. In Britain people have died to ensure that you have a [...]

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Nicholas Winterton makes a hash of defending first class rail travel for MPs

By + on February 18, 2010 in Politics

If there’s ever a case of ‘it’s time to stop talking’ it was Sir Nicholas Winterton on BBC Radio 5. Sir Nicholas was being questioned about MPs being prevented from travelling first class and and came out with the outrageous claim that ‘someone in standard class has a totally different outlook on life.’ Instead of [...]

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Social networks manager for Obama could be you

By + on February 13, 2010 in Politics, social media, Social Networks

Organizing for America (the successor organisation to Obama for America) and the Democratic National Committee are recruiting a new social networks manager.The new recruit will be responsible for maintaining the Democratic Party and Organizing for America accounts on all social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts, etc.) The Wall Street Journal reports that [...]

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