Welcome to a two-part series about the real impact social media (or social networking) is having on politics in Britain. In part one I look at the groups which face extinction, whilst in part two I will look at why pundits searching for the impact of social media on politics in 2010 are looking in

There is a problem with SNS (social networking sites) that is the ability to use the various social media sites and reach a wide audience and engage with them: “Currently, Social Media is disparate and fragmented, making the conversation difficult to track, find, and use”. What brands are developing is the ‘Social Media Press Release' which collapses together the information of a...

Viviane Reding, member of the European Commission for Information Society and Media, has given a speech on Social Networking. It will be the first public statement of the Commissioner on this subject.

This is the speech made by Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media about "Social Networking in Europe: success and challenges", at the Safer Internet Forum in Luxembourg, on 26th September 2008.

Home secretary to host meeting with social media representatives and police to discuss how networking sites were used to plan riots

Predicting which companies and software are going to prosper and which are going to fizzle and disappear is a notoriously unreliable business, but it certainly looks at the moment as if Facebook, Myspace and Bebo are pretty well entrenched as the major social networking sites not only in the UK but also in many other

Community groups across England's capital have given their backing to a new social networking site aimed at encouraging debate around how to make the city better place. ‘Together for London’ is an open forum for Londoners to share their ideas of how to make London a better place, starting with behaviour on public transport.

The last article I wrote conjoured up a utopian vision of Liberal Democrat e-campaigning. However, it might not be a realistic aim for individuals or groups who lack social media expertise, or time, to develop a fully fledged social media presence. How, then, should Liberal Democrats prioritise the different elements of social media? The first

Social Media Affairs has just released a report looking at the political social media landscape in the UK (with, ahem, myself being one of the four people contributing introductory remarks about politics and social media). Any report like this has to deal with all sorts of issues of definition and categorisation but there are some striking

Gov2.0 advocate Steph Gray is trying to find out how many work computer users in the UK have access to social media blocked for personal or professional use. It’s a widespread issue, thanks to the concern of many employers at the Facebook work-crack media hype of the last two years. Some employers block social networking because