Digital Politics
Advocacy in the digital age
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Pokes, Retweets, and Google Pagerank. The lexicon is getting jumbled as everyone’s ability to communicate becomes more…
Social Media
17 posts on Social Media from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
Columns
State of Twitter
Treasury Board President Tony Clement recently remarked that Twitter is important in the public policy process. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MP has discovered its…
Canadian Media
Lisa LaFlamme replaces Lloyd Robertson. New beginnings or an era that has now passed?
Prior to the Olympics I heard an interesting rumour from a source close to the business that CTV’s Lloyd Robertson would be pulling up anchor and moving on…
Digital Politics
UK Tory GOTV E-day effort online
We’re still watching the votes come in on this side of the pond and it’s turning into a late night/early morning for our cousins in the UK as votes are counted…
Digital Politics
Rob Willington presents at the Manning Centre conference
Rob Willington is the brains behind the campaign that got the GOP’s 41st Senate vote in the Massachusetts special Senate election. He gave a lunch time…
Digital Politics
Prime Minister will use social media to connect with Canadians
I just found out from my friends in the Prime Minister’s office (and at Google) that the Prime Minister will be using YouTube to livestream his reaction to the…
Canadian Sports
The pulse of a nation
measured by Facebook It was quite a game yesterday and one of those defining moments sure to be included on an updated version of the Canadian immigration…
Digital Politics
Mark Holland on Twitter
October 5, 2009: Liberal MP Mark Holland is among the majority of the MPs in the 308-seat House of Commons who have not signed on to Twitter. He sees it as an…
New Democratic Party of Canada
NDP convention — Saturday summary
Today, the NDP got down to business and discussed policy, policy and more policy. In fact, the difference with Liberal policy conventions and NDP policy…