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Mark Pack

Who has been impersonating Norman Lamb MP online?

By Mark Pack | Mon 13th August 2007 - 9:55 am

Last week, someone set up on Facebook both a fake profile of Norman Lamb MP and a related fake group:

Norman Lamb Facebook profile screenshot

Fake Norman Lamb Facebook group screenshot

Whoever did it, clearly went to some effort, including setting …

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Steve Webb MP

Who are the most popular Liberal Democrat MPs on Facebook?

By Steve Webb MP | Sat 11th August 2007 - 10:55 am

Following on from my review of the uses MPs are making of Facebook, here’s the top ten listing of Liberal Democrat MPs, based on how many friends they have:

  1. Ming Campbell
  2. Steve Webb
  3. Jo Swinson
  4. Lembit Opik
  5. Stephen Williams
  6. Lynne Featherstone
  7. Julia Goldsworthy
  8. Willie Rennie
  9. Sarah Teather
  10. Chris Huhne

(Rankings are based on number of friends in their official profiles on Facebook, as at 30 July 2007)

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Mark Pack

The perils of Facebook

By Mark Pack | Fri 10th August 2007 - 2:55 pm

Top marks to Dizzy for spotting this Facebook story about the Tory MPs backing an imaginary candidate for an imaginary seat. No snide jokes about imaginary policies please.

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Alex Foster

Two new Facebook groups

By Alex Foster | Thu 9th August 2007 - 6:37 pm

Continuing this week’s Facebook theme here on Lib Dem Voice, some news about two new useful groups on the Facebook website for Lib Dems.

Firstly, Mary Reid got a good idea scant minutes ago for setting up a group for Lib Dem councillors and people interested in local government. You’ll find that group here.

Secondly, local members in Brighton – Lib Dem Voice readers’ favourite conference town – are gearing up for welcoming hundreds of the party’s most influential members to federal conference next month. They’ve set up a Welcome Wagon Facebook for conference goers …

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Steve Webb MP

Liberal Democrat MPs lead the way on Facebook

By Steve Webb MP | Thu 9th August 2007 - 3:24 pm

With Facebook apparently reaching into every corner of British life, I thought it was time to see how far MPs were catching on.

So I’ve worked with a couple of colleagues to look up over 600 MPs from the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties (excluding the Speaker and Deputy Speakers) to see how many have Facebook profiles.

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Mark Pack

Lib Dems leading the way on Facebook

By Mark Pack | Tue 17th July 2007 - 5:01 pm

In a quiet moment in Ealing (no sniggering at the back), I thought it would be interesting to see how much the various parties are using social networking site to support their efforts in the two parliamentary by-elections – and whether my sneaking suspicion that the Liberal Democrats are making the best use of it are true. It’s possible that the other parties have secret groups we don’t know about, but based on what we cansee, here are the stats* – represented for your viewing pleasure in traditional bar chart form, with exciting added 3-D perspective:

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Mark Pack

The perils of Facebook

By Mark Pack | Mon 9th July 2007 - 5:48 pm

(a) You’re a Conservative

(b) You steal things

(c) You boast about it on Facebook

Hmm… can you see trouble ahead? James Graham has the story.

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Mark Pack

Who is the hippest MP?

By Mark Pack | Mon 16th April 2007 - 8:55 am

The Daily Mirror has been looking at the online presence of various MPs: “It’s a fine line between being able to relate to the younger generation … and coming over like a ‘square’ father letting what’s left of his hair down. Here we log on and see how hip our MPs’ sites are”.

And the results?

1 out of 10: Ann Widdecombe
2 out of 10: David Cameron, Boris Johnson
4 out of 10: Gordon Brown
3 out of 10: Hazel Blears, John Redwood
5 out of 10: Tony Blair, Tessa Jowell
6 out of 10: Lembit Opik

and the top scorer is …

7 out of 10: …

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Scottish LD candidate comes a cropper thanks to social network websites

By the founding editor | Fri 30th March 2007 - 9:30 am

Be careful what your friends post.

Incidentally, if you use MySpace / Facebook et al there is a school of thought which suggests that under the principle of better safe than sorry, you should consider putting an imprint on your profile page.

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Facebook group wants Navnit for Mayor of London

By the founding editor | Wed 21st March 2007 - 9:00 am

A group of twenty-five Liberal Democrats on the social networking website Facebook have created a group called “Navnit for mayor!” to, well – you know the rest.

The group includes a number of former and current PPCs, and also a handfull of former and current campaigning staff.

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Mark Pack

Lib Dem MPs flock to Facebook

By Mark Pack | Sun 11th February 2007 - 8:00 am

There’s been a flurry of Liberal Democrat MPs starting to use the social networking site Facebook in the last few weeks – including party leader Ming Campbell (the first UK party leader to do so, just as he was the first on Google Video and YouTube), Jo Swinson, Steve Webb, Stephen Williams and Lynne Featherstone.

Facebook used to only be open to students – and so there is a strong Lib Dem Youth and Student presence on it – but has recently been opened up to anyone.

If you are a Facebook user yourself or you …

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