I delivered a session on audio branding at PodCamp Boston 2. The presentation opened with a short quiz in which I played what I called audio logos and asked the audience to shout out who the audio cues “belonged” to. Among the collection were Duracell, Avon and Apple. The purpose was to audibly-illustrate how audio [...]
I was diagnosed with a hernia (two, actually) on Wednesday and scheduled for a surgical consult to take place at the very end of September. The left side hernia is one that, up until the diagnosis, hadn’t bothered me much. Perhaps it was the awareness, or perhaps the poking during the examination that led to [...]
The danger of telling people what you’re reading is they can keep tabs on the rate at which you read. It adds an element of pressure to the reading which should otherwise be a leisure activity, even if the book relates to the work you do. I started reading Matthew Hindman‘s “The Myth of Digital [...]
Michael von Herff and I met in a coffee shop to talk about social media and public affairs in the new Canadian federal political scene. My apologies in advance for the brief period in which a vacuum cleaner dominated the ambient noise. Relevant information and links Number of candidates with Twitter accounts during the election [...]
It’s been a little over a week since the election which means I’m finally striking a better balance of family, work and research — at least, better than the period of March 26 though May 2. I have a few interested post-election research projects and reports in the works. I’m not able to share the [...]
It’s easy to accumulate powerful digital tools which help us in our work and play. This past weekend I found myself realizing that as much as I use certain tools in my digital toolbox, there’s a small collection that form my Swiss Army Knife – the tools on which I depend to help me with [...]
The role and impact of social media during the federal election is still being considered, and definitely talked about in the media. For people like me, there are a lot of questions to answer. Later today, I’ll be starting a research project into a variety of aspects of what was what it all meant and [...]
It appears to be the day of the guest blog post. This one comes from Stephanie Brooks, a fourth-year journalism student at Carleton University, who was part of the election day digital monitoring and analysis team I assembled. As a student journalist, political enthusiast and wannabe social media guru, I was elated to be a [...]
I was bass player in a band called The 20th Century Boys from 2006-2008. I didn’t name them, by the way. Every show we played was a benefit concert because the whole point of the band was to have fun and break some rules –like playing music that was too complex for the skills of [...]
Today’s blog post comes from my good friend and mentor, Michael von Herff. By the way, Michael and I recorded a podcast with election predictions last week (click here to be taken to that post). I’m hoping he and I are able to connect to do a follow-up podcast this week. I know that Monday [...]
In case you missed it, election results for the maritime provinces, Ontario and Quebec were published on Twitter last night during what Section 329 of the Canada Elections Act identifies as a blackout period. That means results from closed polls in one part of the country cannot be transmitted to parts of the country in [...]
The following is the last breakdown of election day Twitter traffic as of 1amET. Identified as Canadian: 53,734 (24,811 unique accounts) Identified as International: 5,868 (3,886 unique accounts) No location information: 30,548 (16,378 unique accounts) Total election day tweets: 90,150 (45,075 unique accounts) Analysis performed using Sysomos Heartbeat.
I was part of something amazing today. Bigger than the election. Bigger than the digital analysis that found its way on to my blog and Twitter stream today. I was part of a team that tracked thousands of tweets, parsed through the noise and shared statistics noone else was gathering and sharing. It’s an effort [...]
The following graph identifies the four most active #elxn41 tweeting provinces for election day as of 11:30pmET.
The following is a breakdown of election related Twitter traffic for the day as of 11pmET. Identified as Canadian: 40,357 (20,600 unique accounts) Identified as International: 4,735 (3,351 accounts) No location information: 23,398 (13,369 accounts) Total election tweets so far today: 68,490 (37,320 unique accounts)
Tonight’s “social media election” is proving to be quite the contrary, as the results that flow in lie in stark contrast to general sentiment on popular digital channels. Voters are flocking to Twitter to voice their opinions – but predominantly negative ones. It’s proving very much to be a vital election, in contrast to the [...]
The following is a breakdown of election related Twitter traffic for the day as of 10pmET. Identified as Canadian: 35,397 (18,634 unique accounts) Identified as International: 4,290 (3,129 unique accounts) No location information: 20,719 (12,089 unique accounts) Total election tweets so far today: 60,406 (33,852 unique accounts) Early indications are the #tweettheresults movement was not [...]
Les électeurs francophones sont actifs sur le Twitter — beaucoup qui fortement recommandant le Bloc; d’autres disent qu’il n’a pas l’air d’un bon avenir pour le parti. En tout cas, les gens sur Twitter s’amusent. Les parlent de la croissance du NPD et la mentalité ”n’importe qui mais Harper.” Les blagues sont communs sur la conversation de [...]
The following is a breakdown of election related Twitter traffic for the day as of 9pmET. Identified as Canadian: 32,948 (17,680 unique accounts) Identified as International: 4,115 (3,041 unique accounts) No location information: 19,095 (11,289 unique accounts) Total election tweets so far today: 56,158 (32,010 unique accounts) The following is breakdown of unique twitter accounts [...]
The following is a breakdown of election related Twitter traffic as of 7pm. Identified as Canadian: 32,214 (17,335 unique accounts) Identified as International: 4,050 (2,998 unique accounts) No location information: 18,674 (11,080 unique accounts) Total election tweets so far today: 54,938 (31,413 unique accounts) The following is breakdown of unique twitter accounts associated with election [...]
It’s hard to say if 7:00pmET marked the beginning of the media blackout or the wild rumpus of tweets. In the past hour we’ve seen everything from outrage that Newfoundland’s VOCM stopped its online stream (many accused Elections Canada of shutting them down when they were proactively acting in compliance with the Canada Elections Act [...]
The blackout has been effect since 7:00pmET (11 minutes ago as I write this). That means anyone who shares election polling results online is in direct violation of Section 329 of the Canada Elections Act; the so-called Media Blackout provision. So, let’s take stock of Twitter traffic as of 7pm. I’ll share some statistical analysis [...]
Most candidates stopped tweeting yesterday, after giving well wishes to their volunteers. If they have tweeted today, it was to mention bin Laden’s death or the media/advertising blackout. Most remind their supporters to go out and vote. CPC The most active Conservative candidate in Twitterverse on Election Day is Stephen Hill of BC’s Southern Interior, [...]
Election Twitter traffic as of 5:45pmET: Identified as Canadian: 22,553 (13,334 unique accounts) Identified as International: 3,102 (2,440 unique accounts) No location information: 13,455 (8,578 unique accounts) Total election tweets so far today: 39,121 (24,352 unique accounts) Analysis performed using Sysomos Heartbeat.
Election Twitter traffic as of 4:45pmET: Identified as Canadian: 19,586 (11,965 unique accounts) Identified as International: 2,647 (2,129 unique accounts) No location information: 11,710 (7,597 unique accounts) Total election tweets so far today: 33,943 (21,961 unique accounts) More tweets (50%) are fresh. That is, they contain content created specifically for that tweet. 40% of tweets [...]
Canada isn’t the only country buzzing about today’s federal election. As of 4:30pmET, we’ve been tracking activity around the world and have found the following distribution of traffic related to the election. Canada 87% United States 7% United Kingdom 2% France 1% Australia 1% Other 2% How do we explain this distribution? Some chatter about [...]
Seems as though any days of hatin’ on Layton are over. Based on Facebook page action, NDP leader Jack Layton has 65,520 “likes,” with an average of 200 comments per wall post in the past two days – 94 per cent of which are favourable. This lies in contrast with 54,394 “likes” for Harper, whose [...]
We discovered a “hole” in our monitoring criteria that was providing more false positives than we were comfortable with. So, here are the most numbers we have for election tweets as of 3:45pm. Identified as Canadian: 16,894 (10,725 unique accounts) Identified as International: 2,246 (1,790 unique accounts) No location information: 10,044 (6,693 unique accounts) Total [...]
Over the course of the day, I’m doing some analysis of the Facebook Fan Pages for each of the five major party leaders: Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe and Elizabeth May. Elizabeth May (10,871 fans) This table identifies activity by week, specifically the number of posts, likes and comments. Posts Likes Likes/post [...]
Over the course of the day, I’m doing some analysis of the Facebook Fan Pages for each of the five major party leaders: Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe and Elizabeth May. Gilles Duceppe (8,378 fans) This table identifies activity by week, specifically the number of posts, likes and comments. Posts Likes Likes/post [...]
A typical day of election Twitter traffic has been about 15,000 tweets. By 10:45amET today, I already tracked 15,701 Twitter updates associated with 11,512 unique Canadian Twitter profiles. As the BuzzGraph (below) shows, most of the updates are announcements by people that they’ve already voted, encouragement to get out and exercise their democratic right to [...]
With online traffic expected to break all records for online chatter about Canadian politics, I’ve pulled together a small team to help me stay on top of the themes, activities and issues of the day. Ellis Westwood Ellis (@elliswestwood) is a Senior Consultant with Ascentum, a Canadian public involvement firm. Over the last 5 years, [...]
Over the course of the day, I’m doing some analysis of the Facebook Fan Pages for each of the five major party leaders: Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe and Elizabeth May. Jack Layton (62,874 fans) This table identifies activity by week, specifically the number of posts, likes and comments. Posts Likes Likes/post [...]
Over the course of the day, I’m doing some analysis of the Facebook Fan Pages for each of the five major party leaders: Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe and Elizabeth May. Michael Ignatieff (69,094 fans) This table identifies activity by week, specifically the number of posts, likes and comments. Posts Likes Likes/post [...]
Over the course of the day, I’m going to go do share some analysis of the Facebook Fan Pages of each of the five major party leaders: Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe and Elizabeth May. Stephen Harper (53,801 fans) This table identifies activity by week, specifically the number of posts, likes and [...]
Two very significant things happened with Twitter traffic during week 5 (April 24-30) of the election campaign. First, there was a 19% increase in tweets. Using Sysomos MAP, I was able to track 127,365 tweets (18,195/day average) representing 90.1 million impressions. The second is retweets (the amplifier effect) hit an election high at 51%. But [...]
Earlier today I published audio interviews with Scott Bradley and Jen Hunter (the Liberal and Green Party candidates for Ottawa-Centre) about the role of digital media in their campaigns and their thoughts on the role digital will play in the next session of Parliament. I had hoped to also interview Paul Dewar (NDP) and Damian [...]
I interviewed Ottawa-Centre Green Party candidate Jen Hunter on the role of digital in her election campaign and how digital might factor in to the next session of Parliament. Click the play button to listen to the interview. Points of discussion: Learning from 2008 Content, creation and publication A team effort Digital lawn signs Sharing [...]
I interviewed Ottawa-Centre Liberal candidate Scott Bradley on the role of digital in his election campaign and how digital might factor in to the next session of Parliament. Click the play button to listen to the interview. Points of discussion: Integrated campaigns Tools and how they were used Impact of digital Humanizing politicians Digital in [...]
