Battersea Election Candidates on the Internet

Battersea Election Candidates and the Internet Dave Cross dave@dave.org.uk @davorg

Welcome to Battersea

Martin Linton MP Labour

Majority 163

After four recounts

Seven candidates this time

Martin Linton (Lab) Jane Ellison (Con) Layla Moran (LD) Guy Evans (Green) Christopher MacDonald (UKIP) Hugh Salmon (Ind) Tom Fox (Ind)

Plenty of activity

How to keep up?

Aggregate web feeds from all candidates

Only four candidates publish feeds

Emailed other candidates

One reply

1/ Too busy 2/ Too hard 3/ Unimportant

“I don't really know what I'm doing”

“Computers scare me a bit”

How well do politicians understand the technology?

Feeds not exactly busy anyway

With the exception of one candidate

Twitter Usage By Day 25 20 15 martinlinton Tweets laylamoran salmon4batterc battersea4brit 10 5 0 4/7/2010 4/9/2010 4/11/2010 4/13/2010 4/15/2010 4/17/2010 4/19/2010 4/21/2010 4/23/2010 4/25/2010 4/27/2010 4/6/2010 4/8/2010 4/10/2010 4/12/2010 4/14/2010 4/16/2010 4/18/2010 4/20/2010 4/22/2010 4/24/2010 4/26/2010 4/28/2010 Date

Some vague conclusions

This isn't the internet election we were promised

Candidates still unsure about the internet

Unclear about the benefits

Parties need to invest more resources into digital campaigning

It's the future

Just not this time

More Information • ● http://ge2010.battersea-mp.org.uk ● http://blog.dave.org.uk/2009/04/overcomplicatin g-matters.html ● http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/04/general- election-in-battersea.html ● http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/04/modern- campaigning.html

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