e-Campaigning - Australia
Articles and resources about trends and issues in e-campaigning in Australia.
- Gov 2.0 report card
- Former head of the Government 2.0 Taskforce, Dr Nicholas Gruen, hands in his report card, by Mahesh Sharma. Computerworld, 19 August, 2010. "The former head of the Government 2.0 Taskforce, Dr Nicholas Gruen, has handed in his report card on the major parties' use of Gov 2.0 principles..."
- Gov 2.0 is thriving during Australia's federal election
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Monday, August 16, 2010. "Commentators have said that major political parties have "failed to harness the full potential of social media in the 2010 Election" or broken the "cardinal rule of social media" due to only engaging in one way (outbound) communication..."
- Threat drives Libs' election ad campaign down the googler
- by Asher Moses. The Age, August 11, 2010. "The Liberal Party appears to have pulled Google advertisements after threats the party breached electoral laws which could lead to a challenge of results in marginal seats..."
- Libs' Google-ad blitz sparks complaints
- by Saffron Howden. The Age, August 10, 2010. "Voters attempting to learn about their local candidates via Google today were more likely to stumble across surreptitious Liberal Party advertising. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) this afternoon confirmed it had received a number of complaints about federal election advertising on the search engine..."
- Gillard's Q&A spot tops Twitter list
- by Paul Tatnell. The Age, August 10, 2010. "It is a result Julia Gillard will hope repeats itself on election day. Following her appearance on ABC's Q&A last night, Ms Gillard was the No.1 trending topic on Twitter around the world for more than an hour..."
- Just a faint Twitter to be heard
- by Sally Jackson, Geoff Elliott. The Australian, August 5, 2010. "It was touted as the "Twitter election", a shorthand way of expressing the key role social media was expected to play in the campaign. But 2 1/2 weeks in it has become clear the new media is far from usurping the mainstream outlets for the political parties..."
- Federal Election 2010: Labor's social networking strategy
- The ALP is using a combination of internal and external social networking platforms throughout its campaign, by Chloe Herrick. Computerworld, 26 July, 2010. "A week into the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) election campaign, the party’s personal social networking platform, Labor Connect, has 1080 members, however the majority of members are yet to interact with each other..."
- Social media and the federal election
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Monday, July 26, 2010. "While the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the major political parties are "Parties miss the mark in Twittersphere", the current Federal election is likely to see social media used in more diverse and effective ways than ever before in Australia..."
- Parties miss the mark in Twittersphere
- by Julian Lee. The Age, July 23, 2010. "Labor is losing the battle in social media even though it is dominating the conversation online, say social media strategists who have delivered a scathing report on the main political parties' efforts in what was billed a "digital election"..."
- Lundy to debate Hockey in Google forum
- Politicians to face off in Google-organised Federal Election forum, by Trevor Clarke. Computerworld, 21 July, 2010. "Google is organising a Federal Election debate between Labor's Kate Lundy and the Opposition's Joe Hockey for 28 July. The online giant will play host as the two politicians are given a chance to outline their views and will be joined by the Australian Electoral Commission’s NSW state manager, Doug Orr..."
- The Twitter election. Or is it?
- By Darryl Adams, Delimiter.com.au. ZDNet Australia, July 20, 2010. "Now that the phoney war has ended and the real federal election is in full swing, mainstream media and blogs are debating if this will be the "Twitter election" or some other flavour of social media revolution. I argue that it will be, but not the way the pundits are postulating..."
- Blogs, vlogs and tweets the order of the day as campaign hits the net
- by Peter Munro and Carol Nader. The Age, July 18, 2010. "The rise of social media as a communication tool will make this election something different. Soon after announcing her first election campaign as Prime Minister, Julia Gillard found time to tweet. Her now trademark pledge 'to move Australia forward', went out specially to her Twitter followers, whose numbers grew beyond 23,000 yesterday..."
- Online analysis to be a major part of election strategy
- by Simon Canning. The Australian, July 19, 2010. "Election 2010 will be a clash of political perspectives at the ballot box, but an equally heated war will be played out on the web. Political reporting and analysis are taking on a life beyond traditional media..."
- Torture Abbott as web election campaign gets dirty
- by Asher Moses. The Age, July 15, 2010. "The online election campaign has begun early, with web attack ads spreading on Facebook and YouTube and a new viral game that allows players to torture Tony Abbott. With a federal election expected to be called any day now, Labor has shown that it's not above getting down and dirty..."
- Pollies all atwitter as rapid-fire ads take cheap shots
- by Josh Gordon. The Age, June 20, 2010. "... The proliferation of 'rapid-response' political advertisements has been a feature of this election year. They are often released virally on the internet but questions remain about their effectiveness..."
This category last updated: 1 August 2007