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Entries Tagged as 'Social Media'

Ladies and Gentlemen… Your Opposition

May 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Media

Fine Gael have this week launched a new campaign titled NewEra, with accompanying website outlining their plans for jobs, broadband, energy and water policies. The website has videos from Enda Kenny, Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar talking about these plans (George Lee look at what you are missing!) And then there is this – Whack […]

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Michael Lowry’s Oxygen giveaway

May 18th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Media

Michael Lowry the Independent TD for Tipp North/South Offaly is running a competition to celebrate the ‘success’ of his new website and facebook page. This is no ordinary ‘come meet me in the Dáil for a cup of tea and meet a few Ministers’ competition. Ah no Michael has gone for the yoof vote. He […]

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Labour UK’s Animations

April 16th, 2010 · Comments Off on Labour UK’s Animations · Social Media

I’m getting my fill of elections and politics at the moment by watching as much as possible on the happenings across the water and less so up the road in Northern Ireland. As interesting as the politics is the communication methods being used, the lessons learnt from US Election 2008 and the moves forward that […]

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Form an orderly queue there

February 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media

Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly.  It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned […]

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A sting from a dying wasp – question is who is the wasp?

December 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Blogging, MSM, Social Media

John Burn’s writes in today’s Sunday Times about blogging in Ireland and asking where have all the blogs gone like there is some sort of crisis afoot, that it really matters in the state of things, or more like he wants us to think that newspapers were always right about the ‘amateurs’ and indeed are […]

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