It’s been a hectic few weeks for the New Media team at CCHQ – the most obvious things keeping us busy being the launch of MyConservatives and the webcasting of Conference 2009 (…and if you missed any of the action, the replays are all available here).
But we’ve been adding lots of new features to Conservatives.com too, some of which you might have missed along the way. And now seems as good a time as any to round them all up – so here goes…
For starters, we’ve recently introduced the new Party Shop, which is selling all sorts of items from pens to umbrellas and everything in between. It’s a great addition to the site, and also a good place to stop off if you’ve not sorted out your Christmas presents yet!
Another significant change is on this very blog, which has been moved over to the popular WordPress platform. The main benefit of this is that users no longer have to register to post comments and we’re seeing lots of new names contributing which is great news.
Along with the new Blue Blog, we’ve also started using Del.ici.ous to bring together interesting stories from around the web. Look on the right hand side of this page to find links to, amongst other things, an NME story on Eric Pickles’ recent Spotify ad.
One of the other things you’ll see on the right hand side of the page, along with our most recent tweets, are our most recent Flickr photos – another new addition and proving to be an excellent way of storing the latest shots of David Cameron and the Shadow Cabinet.
And if you look at the bottom of this post, you’ll see a new “share” button. Hover over this to see all the sites you can post our news stories, blog posts of videos to – including Twitter, Facebook, Digg and so on.
A lot of these new additions are in response to suggestions from users – so if you’ve got any ideas for how Conservatives.com could be further improved, let me know in the comments thread below or send a tweet to @craigelder.
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Comment by Mike Rouse on October 23, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Looks cool. Nice work. The only thing I’d adjust is from a usability perspective: move the captcha for comments to be positioned above the submit button rather than below it.
Comment by Sally Roberts on October 23, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Well done Craig with all the new innovations! I was very impressed by the Party Shop – my order (of a blue shopping bag and bright yellow t-shirt “Release Your Inner Tory”) arrived roughly three days after the order had been placed! Keep up the good work!
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Comment by trevor peat on October 29, 2009 at 3:49 pm
hi Craig like the new shop and ordered some thing’s already . will there be more items added what about scarf’s or calendar’s ( calendar girl’s or boy’s ha ) and campaigning rosette’s or baloon’s . keep it up Trevor
Comment by Mr Bilham on November 1, 2009 at 4:56 am
Great site!
I would personally like to see a feature / link to a ‘Conservatives for Business’ pages.
And imagine the possibilities if businesses could even place a link on their own business websites which linked to such Conservatives business pages!
Can you not create a logo and some html code that would allow businesses to link to a business page from their own website? It would allow you to ‘communicate’ what the Conservatives are doing / proposing for UK business…because Labour appear to be doing sweet FA for small businesses, and there are people crying out for assurance and really need the confidence that the Conservatives are going to be there to help, listen and advise when they come into power!
I’m actually sick of hearing comments that “the Conservatives have no interest in small businesses”, and “have no idea what to do because they’ve been out of power for so long”!
Just ideas!
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