Modern Campaigning – CF Are Showing Us the Way

I was on 18 Doughty Street again last night.  One of the fellow guests was Mark Clarke, Conservative Future Chairman and recently selected candidate for Tooting. Mark has done a great job with CF and we talked before hand about the use of blogging and other on-line media in campaigning.

One example that impressed me recently was the short film by Matthew Scott of Bexley CF reporting on the selection process for the local Greater London Assembly candidate now that Bob Neill has moved on (up?) to the House of Commons.

Another example comes from what I saw at the Spring Conference last weekend. Two members of the TRG board who are also CF members, Chris Hampsheir and Richard Jackson,  both spent a huge amount of time tapping away on their phones. At first I thought they were just text messaging, but it turned out the were both blogging live from the conference for their respective university Conservative societies, Imperial College and UCL.

These are important new campaigning and communication tools and CF members are showing us the way it will all be done. Well done to them and I hope we will all follow soon!