Finnur Palmi Magnusson aka Gommit » politics http://www.gommit.com The interwebs are here to stay Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:30:28 +0000 en hourly 1 Icelandic politics on Facebook http://www.gommit.com/2009/01/icelandic-politics-on-facebook-3/ http://www.gommit.com/2009/01/icelandic-politics-on-facebook-3/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:58:20 +0000 Finnur Magnusson http://www.gommit.com/2009/1/25/Icelandic-politics-on-Facebook I have been watching closely how Obama is embracing the Government 2.0 ideas and effectively engaging with people through the medium of the web.
So with nothing better to do, I decided to do a quick survey on how the Icelandic political parties are using Facebook.

Framsókn

174 members, 2 discussion topics and 11 wall posts

Frjálslyndi flokkurinn

I could not find an official group but the youngsters have 12 fans and a couple of photos from last October

Vinstri Grænir

128 members and 7 wall posts

Samfylkingin

Again, no official group but the local branch in Akureyri launched a group yesterday and have 21 members, 2 discussion topics and 15 photos.

Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn

217 members, 2 wall posts, 1 photo and 2 videos.

To contrast this, Appelsínugulir (orange) a group of peaceful protesters created a group last week and at the point of writing this, have 16915 members, 7 discussion threas, 165 wall posts, 24 photos and 11 posted items.

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