Social Media and Politics – Barb Higgins For Mayor

On July 28, 2010 Barb Higgins, an iconic journalist for CTV, announced she will run for Mayor of Calgary.

A video posted on YouTube may indicate that Barb intends to use social media as a platform to inform Calgarians about her political views: http://bit.ly/cjPEiK.

Barb just started up a Twitter account as well: http://bit.ly/c3HHDb. So far she has 5 tweets… not spectacular but it looks like she is starting to use the platforms that could start to broadcast her campaign. Too bad she did not create her accounts before accouncing her mayor candidacy, it takes a lot of effort to get momentum on social media platforms like Twitter. She could be very successful online and in the election if she is able to quickly enable her volunteers (she is currently seeking campaign volunteers).

Her social media stats as of July 31st are:

Anduro Marketing was watching the mayoral race’s social media stats, but they haven’t been updated since June 15th – but it’s still worth a look: http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

Social media can be one of the best ways to engage with people, and share information, like where a candidate stands on an issue – a platform candidates should put a lot of focus on.

Will the candidate with the most Facebook likes win the campaign? To be continued…

Shannon Bowen-Kelsick (sbk)
Twitter: @sbkelsick
contact me: sbk@sbkelsick.com

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  2. Doug Lacombe
    August 3, 2010 at 9:39 am

    Anduro page was mistakenly overwritten so it appeared out of date for a bit, now has fresh stats: http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html FYI.

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  3. admin
    August 3, 2010 at 10:21 am

    Thanks Doug! Anduro does now have fresh stats, cheers.

    sbk

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