Wrap Up: Election 2006 and Social Media

This week, I wrapped up my series on the Canadian political parties' use of Social Media over at One Degree.  Links to the articles:

• Social Media and the Conservative Party
• Social Media and the Bloc Quebecois
• Social Media and the NDP
• Social Media and the Green Party
• Social Media and the Liberal Party

Some great sites I discovered while undergoing this research:

• Confeederation - aggregates RSS feeds from party blogs; great tool from Rob Cottingham and Alexandra Samuel at Social Signal
• Election 2006 Mashup - sponsored by Kweschun, a Web 2.0 site that attempts to harness collective wisdom to predict the future, sort of like Surowiecki meets Nostradamus from ChrisNolan.ca and Jen at Kekova
• Canadian Political Index - from the good folks over at BlogsCanada

You can check out my full list of political bookmarks at delicious.

I want to give a special shout-out to Paul Summerville, NDP candidate in St. Paul's.  Now Paul is not my candidate, nor am I necessarily voting NDP, but of all the candidate sites out there (and I looked at quite a few), Paul is the one who is using social media to the hilt.  He is blogging and podcasting original content for the web.  Also, he gets the impact that technology has on society.  He has a great podcast entitled The Five Democratizations, a discussion about the technological changes that are reshaping the global economy and implication for the Canadian economy.  Great stuff!!