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RSS voters labourThe Weekly Round-Up: 10.03.06
Round-Up However, his 'Dumb old me, I can't even work my iPod' approach might win over some floating voters in the technophobe camp. As such, he may well have missed the 'yoof' vote, as they were probably all out doing whatever... [10 Mar 2006]
Will's Web Watch: What's the story dawning e-Tory?
Comment It's advice the Labour Party may care to consider next time around after emailing voters at the last General Election who claimed they had never signed up to receive such emails. At the last General... [24 Feb 2006]
"False dawn" for tech in 2005 general election
News The Labour Party's eCampaigns unit used emails and text messages to mobilise core voters across the country but the party said it did not find e-campaigning to have been particularly influential. The... [20 Dec 2005]
Election '05: Would e-voting have changed the outcome?
Comment This may have been due in part to it being a very safe Labour seat but with so many apathetic voters already online there is real scope to increase the turnout nationwide. A quarter of... [09 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.05.05
Round-Up The War in Iraq clearly weighed heavily on voters' minds, nowhere more so than in Silicon Towers' own East London constituency, where Labour managed to lose a majority of 10,000 to anti-war protester... [06 May 2005]
Election '05: High-tech v doorstep canvassing
Comment But it is clear the work that really makes a difference on the ground in those four intense weeks of campaigning is done by an army of a couple of hundred activists and volunteers who deliver leaflets and canvass voters... [05 May 2005]
Election '05: The best of silicon.com's coverage
News High-tech campaigning targets key voters Lib Dems turn to iPods to reach voters Labour tops campaign website study Labour reveals tech plans in election manifesto With... [04 May 2005]
Election '05: High-tech campaigning targets key voters
Comment Conservative party co-chairman, Dr Liam Fox, has previously said that Voter Vault will "out-gun" Labour and the Liberal Democrats on the ground in the Tories' 168 target seats, and claims testing showed it to be 82 per... [27 Apr 2005]
Election '05: MPs' tech promises fall on deaf ears
News Derek Wyatt, who has been Labour MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey and the chair of the All Party Internet Group, is another politician who has campaigned on tech issues, such as spam and the updating of the Computer... [25 Apr 2005]
Leader: The web's election?
Leader The main political parties are connecting with voters through the web but just as with getting government services online this year, getting online is only the first step. Today we heard how people living in... [25 Apr 2005]
Labour constituencies most switched on in the UK
News According to Point Topic, areas that are the most broadband-friendly are those with voters that tend to be young and affluent, as well as regions in which BT is doing battle with the cablecos for market share. [25 Apr 2005]
Blair hires controversial US election cyberactivist
News Law firm Eversheds warned of the legal dangers of cybersquatting and said the political parties also risk alienating voters if they mislead them using these kinds of tactics. The Labour Party has hired... [15 Apr 2005]
Leader: When is spam not spam?
Leader The Labour Party were absolutely adamant they weren't spamming voters last week. But as Steve Linford from Spamhaus said of Labour's pleas: "If it's unsolicited and it is sent out in... [14 Mar 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.03.05
Round-Up You might think that's pretty obvious but it appears Tony Blair and his people would have done well to heed this advice before hitting 'send' on a recent marketing email.silicon.com has heard from a number of unhappy... [11 Mar 2005]
Blair's buddy Campbell commits potty-mouthed email blunder
News Clearly keen to disenfranchise more voters, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told the same newspaper the technophobia which lead to the blunder probably owes much to Campbell's Burnley roots and his support for the town's... [09 Feb 2005]
