Older generations have an instinctive Unionism. It’s just part of the furniture, something grown up with and that is taken for granted. There is a comfortable complacency that this will always be so, that the world will change but that these changes will be superficial. For example, my generation grew up with comics full of …
Category Archive: Political innovation
Sep
15
Feb
26
The key to digital engagement is…
Here’s a great post on digital engagement from Helpful Technology. Taking Obama’s State of the Union address as a case study, this provides neat, succinct and comprehensive advice. Yes, there is a huge White House team available to deliver all of this stuff. But Helpful Technology notes that the key to success is not volume, …
Feb
22
Cameron on youtube…
David Cameron will be on youtube’s World View this Friday.
I’d be interested to see how he performs. Questions can be submitted here.
Here’s the Obama interview from last month.
Embedded video inside the post…
Dec
16
Keeping voters onside online…
The article below was published in today’s News Letter ‘Political Review 2010′. Check out the print version – it’s amid an eight-page supplement with contributions from Liam Clarke, Graham Gudgin, Alex Kane and Malachi O’Doherty. Online has superseded mainstream media as the place where politics happens. The liveliest, most insightful exchanges of views and information …
Nov
25
Open Unionism presentation from #picamp
Below is the presentation I gave at last weekend’s Political Innovation event. I thought it would be good to post it up here to give a flavour of how that discussion was led. [scribd id=43941003 key=key-1miuz6gxpzozqkj578z mode=list] The basic premise was this – how can you generate, develop and transmit ideas from grassroots Unionism? can …
Nov
19
Political Innovation event…
Open Unionism is going to be at the Political Innovation meet up tomorrow at NICVA. Ticket booking & event details are here. Here’s our idea pitch: Open Unionism was created to be a forum to get unionists talking and to promote their ideas. But how can the blog stop being a publisher (of comment) and …
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Twitter: @openunionism
- @buachailldana1 *Minority* language funding is writing your own amt on invoice, all across EU. Ulster Scots is merely joining gravy train.
- Protestant pupils don’t speak Ullans : http://t.co/xscZNDEo
- @Askinner2011 Cheers for the link, Henry kept uncharacteristically quiet on that one;)
- My co-editor on Open Unionism tells it like it is;) : "Yes to the UK" http://t.co/qNEul4fr via @studentjournals
- OK, numbers are relatively small but still- "More Irish enlisting in British army even as losses in Afghanistan grow": http://t.co/oz60Yd1Q
- That didn't last long: http://t.co/HCcb9afS: http://t.co/OyajwtSp
- The Open Unionism Daily is out! http://t.co/u3fmvYNB ▸ Top stories today via @sallynicoll @markdevenport @news_letter @pmynes @ni_crc
- Scottish iseparation: "Country would lose warship contracts" -: http://t.co/ll8wvEEe
- @siema_skip "you'd be British all you like". Oh, thank you. With regards your question-yes, mistakes were made. And?
- @siema_skip You deny my and others born in N.Ireland's right to Britishness? What gives you that right to dictate my national identity?