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Number 10 Takes PMQ’s To Youtube

Posted by Gez Smith on May 19 2008 | Conversations, Debate, Democracy and government, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

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

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Buzz, sales and votes.

Posted by ChrisQ on May 14 2008 | Opinion research, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

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

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Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch site launches

Posted by Ben on May 09 2008 | Democracy and government, Projects and client work

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?

CPA UK Branch screenshot

 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

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Here come the tube-steppers

Posted by ChrisQ on May 01 2008 | Democracy and government, Opinion research, Projects and client work

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

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