1. Battersea
Election
Candidates
and the Internet
Dave Cross
dave@dave.org.uk
@davorg

2. Welcome to
Battersea

3. Martin Linton MP
Labour

4. Majority 163

5. After four
recounts

6. Seven
candidates
this time

7. Martin Linton (Lab)
Jane Ellison (Con)
Layla Moran (LD)
Guy Evans (Green)
Christopher MacDonald (UKIP)
Hugh Salmon (Ind)
Tom Fox (Ind)

8. Plenty of
activity

9. How to keep up?

10. Aggregate
web feeds
from all
candidates

13. Only
four candidates
publish feeds

14. Emailed other
candidates

15. One reply

16. 1/ Too busy
2/ Too hard
3/ Unimportant

17. “I don't really
know what
I'm doing”

18. “Computers
scare me
a bit”

19. How well do
politicians
understand
the technology?

21. Feeds not
exactly busy
anyway

22. With the
exception of
one candidate

23. 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

24. Some vague
conclusions

25. This isn't the
internet election
we were promised

26. Candidates
still unsure
about the
internet

27. Unclear about
the benefits

28. Parties
need to invest
more resources
into digital
campaigning

29. It's the future

30. Just not this
time

31. More Information
•
● http://ge2010.battersea-mp.org.uk
● http://blog.dave.org.uk/2009/04/overcomplicatin
g-matters.html
● http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/04/general-
election-in-battersea.html
● http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/04/modern-
campaigning.html