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Earlier today we gave you news on how to follow the Labour Party Leadership results as it was announced at the Labour Conference in Manchester. The announcement was to be made late this afternoon and many people wanted to follow what was happening on live blogs, or on Twitter or Facebook. … [Read more...]
Today the long-awaited announcement of who has won the post as Labour Leader will take place after the Leadership Race comes to its conclusion at the party conference in Manchester. The frontrunners are brothers Ed and David Miliband although the other 3 candidates Diane Abbott, Ed Balls and Andy … [Read more...]
As the Liberal Democrat conference is taking place in Liverpool this weekend there is some news of an online survey which shows deep unrest among Liberal Democrat supporters and the poll results are likely to be a real blow to Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg. … [Read more...]
A teen from the U.K has been banned from entering American soil for life after sending U.S president Barack Obama an abusive E-mail. Bedfordshire resident Luke Angel was angered after a recent 9/11 documentary leading to the sending of the message in which he called Mr. Obama a pr*ck.According … [Read more...]
A controversial autobiography by Tony Blair has become the target of an internet campaign on Facebook. The book entitled, “A Journey” is just out and currently Blair is setting out to publicize it at various events and book signings around the U.K. However this is provoking a reaction that will … [Read more...]
There’s an interesting development today for people interested in both politics and social networking with the co-founder of social networking site Bebo, Michael Birch, announcing a new social network for politics. … [Read more...]
Here at Online Social Media we’ve noted the growing impact of social networking and social media sites on politics for some time, with some recent examples being at the U.K. General Election back in May, the recent Australian General Election only last month, and a survey into the use of social … [Read more...]
More and more politicians appear to be using social media and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter nowadays, even President Barack Obama has a Twitter account. The latest politician to have embraced social networking is Ontario Premier, Dalton McGuinty. … [Read more...]
We’ve seen it happen many times before, people write things they maybe should have thought twice about on a social networking site, and it gets them into trouble, such as the recent case of a teacher having to quit after she made remarks about her job on Facebook. The latest example involves young … [Read more...]
We're all aware of the impact that social media has had in the workplace and now it seems that Federal employees have been issued with new guidance about the use of social media while at work, from the Office of Special Counsel. A document has been issued recently by the OSC telling employees how … [Read more...]
There has been a great deal of controversy across the U.S. about the planned Islamic cultural center and mosque that could be built close to the site of Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Opinion has been very split over the issue with President Barack … [Read more...]
Back at the U.K. General Election in May we spoke of how the use of social media has really spread among politicians and how political parties have really cottoned on to just how much influence social media now has. Now it seems the same effects are being noticed over in Australia where the voting … [Read more...]
Social media presence is being felt and used more and more in public life and politicians in particular seem to be really catching on to just how useful it can be. However, just because certain politicians, such as John McCain, have a huge following on social media sites, that doesn’t necessarily … [Read more...]
It seems that Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska, has made somewhat of a name for herself for her misuse of the English language. Back in July she came under fire for the use of the word “refudiate” and defended the use of the made-up word vigorously on Twitter, actually comparing … [Read more...]
I’ve heard of celebrities insulting each other on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook before, but never politicians. However that was the case with Conservative MP James Cleverly, who recently took to Twitter to attack Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes. … [Read more...]
A candidate for the Family First Senate in Australia has posted an apology on her website for a homophobic tweet. Wendy Francis, standing for the Senate in Queensland originally tweeted a message referring to children of same-sex couples facing emotional abuse. … [Read more...]
WikiLeaks, an international organisation that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents has now come up against the U.S. Department of Defense. In recent news to hit the headlines, they have issued WikiLeaks with an ultimatum “return all the secret documents … [Read more...]
Vaughn Walker will be one of the most popular Federal judge’s in the U.S. amongst the gay community, as he overturned Prop 8, this was what stopped same sex marriages. As you would imagine a number of celebrities have come out in force on Twitter to tweet their reactions. … [Read more...]
Last week, thousands of classified military documents were released onto Wikileaks by a soldier called Bradley Manning. This soldier then got into heaps of trouble and is currently awaiting trial for his crimes. Now it seems that he may have had help obtaining the software which he used to gain … [Read more...]
You’ve probably all heard about WikiLeaks, the website that publishes leaked information and its recent publication of military documents under the title of the Afghan War Diary. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the issue among the military, politicians and of course the public, … [Read more...]
Wikileaks is a place on the internet where people can share information without giving out their name. If somebody comes across some information which should be released to the public, but they are too afraid to do so using their real name, they can have it posted to Wikileaks. For example if I was … [Read more...]
While this year’s UK general election was taking place we ran many stories about how social media and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter were becoming more and more important in communicating with voters. We also noted how many more people were becoming more interested in … [Read more...]
Facebook’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, has recently met up with Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, to help build David Cameron’s Big Society by using Facebook. While Facebook is one of the biggest online media sites to visit, this may be a good way of users getting involved in the world … [Read more...]
A fascinating insight into the mapping of the political landscape from social networking for the General Election 2010, was posted yesterday by Alterian, a leader in customer engagement technology and solutions. Alterian’s social monitoring tool SM2 measured over 500,000 conversations across … [Read more...]
It’s only 2 more days away, the General Election 2010 takes place this Thursday May 6 and with social media more to the fore than ever before in politics there is a venture taking place to mark the millions of people voting at the polls. … [Read more...]
