The demise of ICELE

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.

What would you do to get Facebookers interested in the Euro elections?

Screenshot of Euro elections group on Facebook

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.

What would you do to get Facebookers interested in the Euro elections?

New North East Conects Storyboard Application

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.

Number 10 Takes PMQs To Youtube

Screenshot of Number 10 channel on YouTube

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.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch site launches

Screenshot of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association website

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?

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Buzz, sales and votes

Chris writes: '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'.

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Here come the tube-steppers

From the day 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'.

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How the world wide web has ushered in a new age of digital democracy

Check out the interview and podcast in the Times from Jay Adelson, chief executive of the news site Digg, in which he says that the internet has brought down barriers and given a voice to all.

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