This week’s YouGov poll showed Ken Livingstone edging ahead of Boris Johnson with a lead of 51-49. Only six months ago Boris had a 8-point lead but now, months before London goes to the polls, Ken’s pledge to cut fares by 5% is clearly hitting the right spot with the voters. These new figures show [...]
Making better use of people’s time online
This is a must watch TED talk from Luis von Ahn – the man who invented CAPTCHAs. Although you may never have heard of a CAPTCHA, you’ve definitely used them. They are the annoying squiggly letters you have to fill in when signing up to a new service online (like creating a new social media [...]
Lansley road tests his new commissioning groups
Good news today for prospective Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) with the announcement that the Department of Health is bunging them the £100m in loose change it found stuffed down the back of the departmental sofa. Individual Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have been delegating elements of their budgets for the development CCGs for some time but [...]
Who are the top parliamentary tweeters
Appointing a top tweet able to compete with last weeks unfortunate Ed Miliband slip up would have been difficult, so instead I thought I’d try something different. We took a look at eight MP’s activity on twitter to see how effectively they are growing their audience. Using a free tool from Wildfire Social Media you [...]
Good PR: G-Form and McDonalds
Two articles caught our eye this week: The Metro covered a stunt from G-Form who claim to have invented the most protective tablet casing. They put an iPad in this casing and then dropped it 100,000 feet from space. It apparently landed in Nevada without a single mark or scratch on it. As someone pointed [...]
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