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
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Ge2010
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?
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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
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    campaigning.html

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