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A very good piece about the uses of mobile technologies for activism.

There are things in this that I've also been thinking about but hadn't picked up on using it for pointing to pickets. Although I've been thinking about it's use to identify popular meeting points as ways of identifying places for meetings or rally points; or favourite destinations to identify possible prizes for competitions to increase supporters' engagement in campaigns. Thoughts?

List of Australian politicians (real/fake) and political parties using Twitter. It's a wiki so you can add to the list.

If you're using Twitter then you'll want to visit this page to see which Australian politicians (real and fake) and political parties are using Twitter. Most say little or tweet so irregularly that they get lost in the traffic.

Political lobby group GetUp! has shared insights into how email, social media and SMS were crucial to the success of its recent election campaign

OzPoliCon is Australia's annual conference for online activists and political bloggers, vloggers and anyone that uses the Internet for campaigning purposes. The conference encourages collaboration and sharing different ideas, experiences and perspectives about online activism, its trends and future directions. It also delves into strategies and techniques for online campaigning. Unlike a lot of other conferences this one is different in that it is you the politicos (ie political bloggers, vloggers and online activists and operatives) that help shape the conference agenda and speakers.