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This document summarizes campaign activity for candidates in the Battersea election and their use of the internet. It finds that while there are seven candidates, only four publish online feeds. One candidate is very active on Twitter but the other feeds are not very busy. It concludes that this election did not live up to promises of being an "internet election" as candidates are still unsure about online benefits and digital campaigning needs more party resources.

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Battersea Election Candidates and the Internet Dave Cross dave@dave.org.uk @davorg
Welcome to Battersea
Martin Linton MP Labour
Majority 163
After four recounts
Seven candidates this time
Martin Linton (Lab) Jane Ellison (Con) Layla Moran (LD) Guy Evans (Green) Christopher MacDonald (UKIP) Hugh Salmon (Ind) Tom Fox (Ind)
Plenty of activity
How to keep up?
Aggregate web feeds from all candidates
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Only four candidates publish feeds
Emailed other candidates
One reply
1/ Too busy 2/ Too hard 3/ Unimportant
I don't really know what I'm doing
Computers scare me a bit
How well do politicians understand the technology?
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Feeds not exactly busy anyway
With the exception of one candidate
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
Some vague conclusions
This isn't the internet election we were promised
Candidates still unsure about the internet
Unclear about the benefits
Parties need to invest more resources into digital campaigning
It's the future
Just not this time
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

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