The latest edition of the excitingly sporadic Delib newsletter is now available to read online: Delib newsletter, June ‘08.
If you’re not signed up to receive the newsletter yet, you’re missing out: it’s free, less hassle and better-looking than an RSS feed, and even comes with a couple of newsletter-exclusive extras. To sign up to the mailing list now, enter your e-mail address in the box… read more
We’ve just put together an interesting little package for North East Connects, aimed at informing elected members about what e-Demcracy can do for them, and encouraging them to take up some or all of the benefits it can offer.
When we got the brief, it soon became apparent that the key objective in this project was presenting information in a clear, usable and engaging manner. So, we decided to dispense with… read more
Some of you will have been following this on other blogs anyway, and there are good conversations on them to join in with about all of this if you want, but would be foolish to ignore the news that the government, after a little delay, has finally pulled the plug on the International Centre of Excellence for Local e-Democracy.
A shame in a way, as there is clearly a role for… read more
One of our contacts at the European Parliament has set up a Facebook group entitled ‘I’m going to vote in the Euro elections in 2009′ and is looking for interesting and exciting things to do with it to take its membership beyond the current (very respectable) 260-odd and counting.
He’s keen to stress that this is a personal endeavour, not an official European Parliament initiative, but… read more
According to this story, Gordon Brown is going to be launching an online version of Prime Minister’s Question Time In June. It’s an attempt to ‘reconnect with younger voters’ according to the BBC (isn’t everything online described as that now?) and will be a regular event.
It’s going to be run through Youtube, so absolute top marks for going where the people actually are and not reinventing the wheel… read more
I’ve finally managed to dig out this v.interesting blog post on a recent piece of research from New York University’s Stern Business School that correlates online “chatter” to higher physical album sales.
What the researchers did was to monitor the levels of online buzz - in particular blogs posts and MySpace friends - created by 108 different album releases in the first two months of 2007, and then cross-referenced this… read more
Yes, it’s a lengthy title but if I’d abbreviated it you wouldn’t know that we’d done a site for a Parliamentary organisation, would you?
The mission of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ‘is to promote the advancement of parliamentary democracy by enhancing knowledge and understanding of democratic governance’. Our client, the UK Branch of the Association… read more
Today we launched our final Opinion Tracker analysis for the Mayoral elections. The results are pretty interesting, with what looks like a final surge of buzz and positive sentiment for Boris.
Check out our latest election opinion research results here
Plus you should also check out a piece I’ve written for the Prospect Magazine blog about the “Tube-stepping” trend we’ve identified through our Opinion Tracking. If… read more
On Friday we published our latest Opinion Tracker analysis of what people are saying around the internet about the Mayoral elections. To read the full report, check out our internet opinion analysis here.
Quick snippets of insight include:
It’s been talked about for a while now, but last week saw the launch of ICELE’s new ‘Blog in a Box‘ platform/toolkit.
A follow on from the ‘Read my Day’ project, Blog in a Box is meant to make it really easy for councillors and other local authority figures to put together a blog, get guidance on how to make it work, and have their blog listed… read more