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On her blog Adler-Auge Alexandra Ripken gives a short wrap-up to my talk on the recent CDU social media campaigns in Hessen 2009, for the German general election 2009 and the campaign in Nordrhein-Westfalen 2010, which I gave at a recent alumi meeting of the Fundraising Akademie. It’s nice to hear that the talk went [...]

A few days ago Malte Krohn [@malte_politicus] from the blog Homo Politicus interviewed me on the state of the CDU online campaign in Nordrhein-Westfalen which I advise on their use of online tools. This is the result:

If you are interested in the campaign, I also wrote about it here, here and here.

This sunday I participated in the workshop Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn Form It? at CHI 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. During the workshop I presented my position paper Twitter in Politics: Lessons Learned during the German Superwahljahr 2009 in an ignite talk.
The workshop was organized by Julia H. Grace [@jewelia], Dejin Zhao [@djzaho] [...]

Next Sunday I will participate in one of the workshops leading up to this year’s CHI 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop is called Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It. It is organized by Julia H. Grace [@jewelia], Dejin Zhao [@djzhao] and danah boyd [@zephoria]. The position papers for the workshop are [...]

Die CDU Onlinekampagne für die Landtagswahl 2010 in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Ein Zwischenstand
Eine Präsentation gehalten während des Politcamp 2010 in Berlin am 21. März 2010.
Während des Politcamp 2010 in Berlin präsentierte ich am 21. März den aktuellen Zwischenstand der CDU Onlinekampagne zur Landtagswahl in Nordrhein-Westfalen am 9. Mai 2010. Dies ist eine ausformulierte und leicht erweiterte Version [...]

Am Rande des Politcamp 2010 gaben Oliver Zeisberger [@oliverbarracuda] und ich Vera Kämper [@vera_k] von Der Westen ein Interview zum aktuellen Stand der Onlinekampagnen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Oliver Zeisberger betreut mit seiner Agentur den Onlinewahlkampf der NRW SPD während ich das Onlineunterstützerteam der CDU Nordrhein-Westfalen NRW für Rüttgers berate.
Unsere Präsenz beim Politcamp 2010 scheint übrigens auch vom [...]

This feels a bit like old news. But who says information has a sell-by-date?

In November Christoph Bieber, Martin Eifert, Thomas Groß and Jörn Lamla published the book “Soziale Netze in der digitalen Welt” to which I contributed a chapter on the political uses of Twitter. And the first reviews are in:
Jochen Zenthöfer for politik-digital.de: Wer [...]

Drinking from the Firehose: Why Obama Should Stay the Hell Off Twitter
Colin Delany [@epolitics] gives an interesting perspective on the question whether leading politicians should use Twitter:
But I’d also argue that Twitter is fundamentally a bad match for a Chief Executive, for exactly the same reasons that so many other people are drawn to it. [...]

It’s been a while since I’m back from the Personal Democracy Forum Europe. For a post-mortem of the conference I suggest these posts by other participants.
Micah L. Sifry: Hackers and Hacks: A Post-Mortem on PdF Europe in Barcelona
Markus Beckedahl: Erster Tag PdF-Europe
[Update]
Anna Ebbesen: PDF Europe – Day one round up
Astrid Haug: PdF Europe – Day [...]

Klaus-Peter Schöppner: „Partei der Mitte“: Der Chancentod der CDU
An interesting analysis of the state of things for the CDU before the German election campaign 2009.
Henry Farrell: Political scientists in public debate
This is a nice conversation starter about the roles political scientists should play in the public discourse about politics.
Joshua-Michele Ross: The Rise Of The Social [...]