Our Chairman, Eric Pickles, has long been praised for his strong web presence, with www.ericpickles.com keeping the people of Brentwood & Ongar up-to-date with everything he’s up to in his role as their MP. Since he became Chairman of the Party, he’s been dabbling in social media with his War Room Briefings, a series of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’
18 Jun
Twitter delivers the other side of the story in Iran
We’ve heard a lot of talk about social media having various “breakout” moments over the past few months – but the way it has been used to cover the protests that have followed Iran’s disputed election result is surely the first time we’ve seen it not just complement mainstream news coverage, but supplant it completely. [...]
27 May
A new politics, inspired by the internet revolution
David Cameron’s speech at the Open Unversity yesterday certainly turned a few heads in the online community. It contained pledges to publish Parliamentary information in a properly accessible format and end the ban on footage from the Commons being uploaded to YouTube. All good news – and this will offer encouragement to groups like MySociety [...]
