An extremely interesting trend is taking hold in my part of the world -- "friending for office" and then "naturally" using Facebook to fundamentally engage constituents in new ways.
(The ones that directly "friend" the most voters are winning too ... not b.s. Facebook Pages, but actual personal profile friending with voters/constituents. And this is not about MP-wannabes :-) messaging "look at me, I am witty" on Twitter to the media and political class. Facebook is where everyday constituents are being engaged.) So while in Minneapolis, this "30 something" wave of new local elected officials is taking hold, what about local authorities in the UK? Anything happening? Who is on your list of Facebook Native elected officials in the UK? (Or other countries for that matter.) On that note, I've been chatting with folks about the potential of getting some of these wired elected officials *together* in-person in late October when I will be in the UK. Let me know if this idea interests you or if your company/org/gov might like to help sponsor such an event. Cheers, Steven Clift E-Democracy.org P.S. This visit is possible because of the Consultation Institute's big annual conference on Oct. 22 in London. Join me there: http://bit.ly/tCl-powerpeopleconf P.S. Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ᐧ ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/60yhqn0SOa7ykzgqmX2TpA For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
