Digital communications Archive

  • Ed-Miliband

    TEXTS FROM A WOULD-BE LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY

    LABOUR leadership contender Ed Miliband sent me a text message on Saturday. “Hi it’s Ed Miliband,” it read. “Hope you don’t mind me contacting you about the leadership election. Can I count on your support? Reply Y or N. To opt-out text stop to 86888.”...

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    THE DEATH OF IVY BEAN, THE OLDEST TWEETER IN TOWN

    THE oldest person on Twitter, Ivy Bean, died this week at the age of 104. The great-grandmother from Bradford had first hit the headlines when she got ‘bored’ with one social network – Facebook – and switched to Twitter. She ‘tweeted’ about her love of...

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    YouTube insight into corporate advertising

    EVER wondered how the giant corporate Public Relations and advertising agencies win business? Now you can get a valuable comedy insight, courtesy of YouTube (or ‘MyTube’ as perhaps it should now become known). Congratulations to Jon Mason, aka Jollywise, for his hysterical take on the...

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  • edBalls

    It’s not the internet – its Balls!

    A FASCINATING insight into the workings of Government is provided by the right-wing Spectator magazine in its blog ‘Coffee House’. It tells how Cabinet Minister Ed Balls, a close confidante of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, rang up the magazine’s political editor, Fraser Nelson, to complain...

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    Blogging – a force for good

    THE fallout over the Damian McBride smear campaign continues apace – not least amongst the Labour Party’s online community. They are anxious not to panic and throw the baby (new media) out with the dirty bathwater (McBride’s smears) by suddenly rejecting the web-based campaigning epitomised...

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    New businesses want more web marketing – Sound Communication survey

    FLEDGLING businesses in Greater Manchester want more help to market themselves on the internet as the recession bites, according to a Sound Communication survey. They want better technical support, more training and stronger creative input to help market their businesses more effectively on the web....

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  • vid1

    Getting Out The Vote – US style

    Getting Out The Vote for Barack Obama with a spoof video

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    Running-mate Joe Biden’s impressive YouTube debut for Barack Obama

    Joe Biden's video debut f.as Vice Presidential running mate to Barack Obama was impressive in both its form and its content.

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  • Did Obama snub ‘our brave boys’ because there was no photo opportunity?

    Did Obama snub ‘our brave boys’ because there was no photo opportunity?

    Did Barack Obama snub wounded troops in hospital because he he couldn't take the press with him for a photo opportunity?

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  • IT’S OFFICIAL: The age of ‘citizen journalists’ has arrived…

    IT’S OFFICIAL: The age of ‘citizen journalists’ has arrived…

    THE age of the citizen journalist has arrived – and that’s official. YouTube has this week created a special ‘reporter channel’ where anyone can upload film about news and events in their local community, organisation or business. The channel is designed to encourage ‘citizen journalists’...

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