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Return on Involvement

UK General Election: Leaders Debate Round 2 – after the debate #ge2010

22 April 2010

So even with the negative press that Nick Clegg was getting prior to the debate he’s again come out on top! The following images are from http://electwits.co.uk and show that Nick Clegg’s dominating at the moment: With a total of 31,682 posts (15k more than before the debate) the LibDem online chat pretty much mirrors [...]

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UK General Election: Leaders Debate Round 2 #ge2010

22 April 2010

So how will people feel after tonights Live debate on TV? It will certainly answer some questions like was the huge swing over to LibDem after seeing Nick Clegg win the first one merely a blip? But one thing’s for sure David Cameron and Gordon Brown will be ‘better prepared’ than the last one. This [...]

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UK General Election: Have you decided? #GE2010

21 April 2010

I read on Sky News yesterday that there is a slight difference of opinion on ‘which party’ is currently out in front? There were three poll results published: ComRes, YouGov and Populus who conducted telephone interviews over two days between the 18th & 20th of April ComRes – interviewed 1012 adults on April 18th & [...]

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General Election: What the people are feeling 15th April

15 April 2010

The BIG Debate So here we are, the evening of a first for British Politics: a live debate between Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives. So to mark the occasion I push the social media strategy review until tomorrow and bring forward how we the people are felt before the debate and then I’ll post [...]

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General Election: What the people are saying 14th April

15 April 2010

Firstly a BIG thank you… Due to the number of records I’m indexing everyday to monitor the online conversations leading ip to the UK General Election on May 6th (let’s just say there’s rather a lot!!!) 6Consulting (the UK arm of Radian6) have offered to sponsor the cost of this… What an amazing gesture and [...]

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General Election: What the people are saying 13th April

13 April 2010

The conservative party launched their manifesto, but it didn’t have the effect on th eonline conversation as I thought it would. It did, however, appear to have a positive effect on their online sentiment: yesterday they were 61.9% negative and today they’re at 51.9% positive… So here’s today’s overview: Percentage (%) of Online Posts Topical [...]

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Social Media in Property

29 March 2010

This week I’ll be blogging over on the MyPropertyMentor blog on how Social Media can be used by property developers to create greater visibility for their projects; whether selling a property or renting it out. There is so much that can be discussed that it would be impossible to list a complete ‘How To’ guide [...]

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One for your Toolbox: Paul Weston

27 March 2010

Paul Weston was made redundant in February 2010 and decided to use social media as a way of proactively raising his online profile to find work. And before you say anything… I’m not calling Paul Weston a ‘Tool’ but the way he has been utilising online tools in order to find a new job is [...]

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A perfect moment

23 March 2010

Yesterday evening I was told at the end of presenting a proposal that we’d won the project for a European product launch. There had been a few late nights ‘Sat by the Mac’ pulling ‘stuff’ together – oh, and that is me on the left – so it was great feeling to get the immediate [...]

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