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The digital election?

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

On Wednesday, I spoke alongside Iain Dale at a BBC College of Journalism event at TV centre on “the digital election.”

Iain and I agree that that the web – though very important for the reasons I stated yesterday – is unlikely to have a decisive impact on the outcome of the election.

Click on the image below to watch our short talks, and the (probably more interesting) questions and answer session from BBC journalists, on Sarah Brown’s likely role, Twitter, Facebook, blogs and email. There is also the (shocking!) revelation that this will be the first general election in which I vote…

Alex Smith Iain Dale BBC

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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