Social networking is not exactly new to politics but as the web has evolved so have the strategies and tactics of political campaign teams and the online profiles of politicians. One thing that has struck me as very interesting throughout the U.S. presidential campaign this year was the overall design factor behind each candidate’s brand, graphic identity and website. A topic that I will be looking at in greater detail in a later post but for now I want to focus on the way in which Obama in particular has utilised the web and social media to promote his campaign. (more…)

Increasingly there have been reports such as this about social networking websites, in particular Facebook. So by setting up an account with Facebook are you significantly decreasing your chances of getting that next job or inadvertently black-listing yourself from a college course? Not exactly… (more…)

Continuing on from my last post and in an attempt to start putting some of my New Year resolutions into action, I have salvaged, updated or setup accounts for all of the below. Check them out and connect with me to say hello if you’re on them too! If I don’t know you, am not linked to you in some way or don’t know of you, I may not add you (“cheek!” says you). However, I will appreciate the thought and effort that you went to in saying hi!

• Niamh Redmond on Twitter
• Niamh Redmond on Flickr
• Niamh Redmond on LinkedIn
• Niamh Redmond on Facebook

I’m planning to keep all of these for professional/ industry related purposes (within reason!). In other words, you won’t find embarrasing photos of me getting drunk or on holiday (you wouldn’t find them anywhere though!). I’m using LinkedIn and Facebook for career and industry networking, I’m using Twitter for less formal networking (and as an outlet to add my two cents worth, to sometimes vent and to ‘twitter’) and Im using Flickr to display my photography.

I think that that makes me sufficiently connected!

I have no idea how I first heard/ read about/ came across Twitter but I am on it!

If you’re on it to and would like to follow me, I’m here:
http://twitter.com/nredmond

A late night escapade to Q-zar and bowling in the Blanchardstown Leisureplex (how much fun! – I haven’t done that since my teenage years) saw me leaving the moped in work overnight the other night and subsequently having to resort to public transport the following morning i.e. get the train into work. Anyway, page 13 of my free copy of METRO contained an article about how open-source technology is transforming the economy, politics and science… so nothing new there exactly but it did get me thinking about mass collaboration, social networking, blogging and self-publishing on the Internet in general ( a lot to think about on a relatively short train journey!). And, I also learned a new term in the process, ‘wikinomics’.

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