The annual party conferences are big dates in the diaries of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative politicians and activists from up and down the country, so this year Dominic and I from TweetyHall / FutureGov along with our friends from On Road Media and OPM, decided to book our train tickets, pack our pocket video recorders and join [...]
The final Local, Social, Digital fringe meeting took place at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Sunday 2nd October. Our panellists – Risha Saha (former Head of Digital Communications at 10 Downing Street, now at Hill & Knowlton), Kate Day (Social Media Editor at the Telegraph) and Cllr Andrew Povey (Surrey Council Council) – [...]
Anna Turley is the Editor of ProgLoc and a Labour Party activist. Anna was unable to speak at our Local, Social, Digital Labour Party fringe meeting yesterday due to a conflicting engagement, but she wanted us to share with you the speech that she would have made. Today’s Local, Social, Digital fringe will make an [...]
Local, Social, Digital hits Manchester on Sunday for the final of our three party conference fringe meetings, this time to join the majority Coalition Government partners, the Conservatives. At the Liberal Democrat and Labour Local, Social, Digital meetings our line up of top speakers drew in the crowds and resulted in a buzzing atmosphere, and [...]
You can sign up to the event here or by visiting our Facebook event page. The Local, Social, Digital tour of the party political conferences joins Labour in Liverpool tomorrow lunchtime, with another impressive line-up of speakers. Tom Watson MP, Mark Ferguson (Editor of LabourList), Cllr Catherine McDonald (Lead Member for Children’s Services, London Borough of Southwark) [...]
Last Sunday, we held our first ever meeting at a party political conference. Local, Social, Digital hit Birmingham for the Liberal Democrat conference, and despite running up against a meeting where Hugh Grant was speaking, the room was packed out and the energy was buzzing. We started off the meeting by showing everyone this short [...]
Here at TweetyHall we’re all about councillors making the most of the web to connect with the communities and citizens they represent. That’s why we’re pleased to hear Connected Councillors, a social media guide for local politicians is to be republished. Here Ingrid Koehler explains why it’s important and how you (yes, you!) can help…
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