Archive for 'lynnefeatherstone'
Puffbox site wins election award
Puffbox is proud - and a little bit relieved - to announce that our work with LibDem MP Lynne Featherstone has been named 'best use of digital by a candidate at the general election'. read on »
Minister (not) warned for (not) tweeting at 1am
For the last week or two, I've been trying to draw together some thoughts on Ministers and blogging / tweeting, particularly as regards former Opposition figures now finding themselves in government, and a coalition government at that. Truth be told, I still don't have a great conclusion to share, only that it's a bit complicated. [...] read on »
Lynne Featherstone making a splash
When we launched the new Lynne Featherstone website back in September, our plan was always to add some new functionality once the campaign finally began (properly). One such feature went live tonight: 'splash pages', managed purely within WordPress. I've developed a new custom page template, which - as you can see - expects to be [...] read on »
Our new site for LibDems' Chris Huhne
With the election now well and truly underway, it's high time I blogged about the latest website Puffbox has built for a high-profile Liberal Democrat - this time it's home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, as he looks to defend a wafer-thin majority in Eastleigh. We were approached by Huhne's team late last year: they'd seen [...] read on »
SEO as a political campaigning tool
I've mentioned this before, but it still brings a smile to my face. One consequence of the rebuild of Lynne Featherstone MP's website, which we launched last September, has been a marked improvement in Google performance. And it's arguably my greatest personal triumph that if you search Google for 'haringey council' - the top suggested [...] read on »
LibDem tech chief backs free postcodes
Delighted to see LibDem MP (and client) Lynne Featherstone write the following: As Chair of the Liberal Democrat Technology Board - and an MP who believes that the internet should be used to strengthen democracy - I want to declare my support for the Free our Data campaign. We need postcodes to be owned by [...] read on »
Lynne Featherstone redesign pays off
My friend / colleague / client Mark Pack gave a presentation at last week's Social Media 09 conference on 'Liberal Democrats and social media': in fact, it was a case study on the work we did to relaunch Lynne Featherstone's website. Although they don't make much sense in isolation (nor should they), here they are [...] read on »
Presenting the new website for Lynne Featherstone MP
We're proud to unveil our latest creation: a new website/blog for Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone (or try this link if the DNS hasn't rolled over for you yet). It's taken a good few months, and has thrown up challenges on a scale I haven't had to tackle before. But equally, it presented several opportunities [...] read on »
Creative Commons: 3 MPs on blogging
A shock conclusion emerges from the Hansard Society's latest research into MPs' use of new-fangled technology: they are normal people. Well, 'kind of normal-ish', Labour's Tom Harris clarifies. We're here at Microsoft's relatively new London offices to hear from three MPs, one from each of the main parties, on what they put in, and what [...] read on »
LibDems' Featherstone on tech & politics
I mentioned the other day that MP Lynne Featherstone, a long-established blogger and the Commons's first Twitterer had been announced as chair of the Liberal Democrats' new Technology Board. In an article to be published by the New Statesman, she talks a bit more about her (considerable) experience with technology in politics. It's a balanced, [...] read on »