Labour Conference Coverage
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Details of the online coverage of the Labour Party conference are online. Old hands that they are, the 2.0 is all over the conference – it is only when I went back to check that I realised they kicked of a big 2.0 drive in November 2007. No BSD there then and fair play for getting so much traction without shelling out enormous money. Councillors and TDs dont need to spend money to blog or twitter – telling them they do is just wasting everyone’s time and money.
First of all, any bloggers who are interested in going should email the press office looking for accreditation. If you cant make it, the liveblog will have all the usual knobs and whistles using twitter messages with the hashtag #lp09., you can follow them on twitter @labour. The flickr is also stil there.
Ustream makes a return appearance anyone with an iphone can take advantage of the stream too using Ustream’s iphone app. IF you are planning to get accredited do let us know.
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It’s a splash screen, squid (very Obama-esque!), just click “No Thanks” and you’ll get through to the full content.
Yeah, in fairness, Labour were quite savvy with their online coverage last year. And they didn’t make a song and dance about it either, unlike other parties.
Ciara and I from Yellow Roman Candles will be blogging from Mullingar that weekend. Anyone else coming to the Midlands?
Also, I see that Labour intend to set up a Scribble Live blog with the hashtag #LP09. Could Simon or Cian contact Labour and ask them to let the live blog be moderated independently, as was done with the Green Party conference live blog? It would make all the difference to contributors. Thanks.
Hi Eoin the Sribble live is Simon’s baby, he’ll set it up during the week, not Labour. Its a great initiative and great that its independently done where anyone can contribute, why mess with that
Hi, redmum. Yeah, I know it’s Simon’s baby but Labour are setting up their own one, just as the Green Party did originally. But in that instance, Simon contacted the Greens and they agreed to link to the live blog moderated by him. That way, no live bloggers were diverted to a separate blog by the party’s official site. It makes a lot more sense to have everyone contributing to one independently moderated live blog – including those who got the link from the official party website. Hopefully Labour will agree to link to the independent one – not the one set up by themselves…
Eoin, Labour are not setting up their own one and given their experience of engaging with bloggers and social media generally I’d they would never dare do it! Read what Red Mum said again! They were announcing the scribble/liveblog.ie one and hashtag and said more details will be announced closer to the date – Simon is setting it up on Thursday.
Gotcha now. As Labour made no mention of it being independently moderated, I thought they were setting up their own one – like the Greens originally planned. Didn’t know they’d be in contact with Simon. My bad, redmum.