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Twitter: it built my team, but didn’t win me votes

Stuart Bonar on Twitter

Plymouth Moor View Lib Dem candidate in the 2010 general election Stuart Bonar gives his honest assessment of how important Twitter and social networks were in his campaigning drive. Here’s a clue, he’s a Twitter convert

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Creeping commercialism on the PRSD!

from the PRSD shop

There are more ads on the People’s Republic of South Devon – and that creeping commercialism is to be cheered! As a not-for-profit none, the money we make goes back to doing what we do – not to proprietors or shareholders!

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Question for Exeter's #likeminds - how deep is the social element of social media?

With the Like Minds conference taking place in Exeter tomorrow (Friday, October 16), we thought we’d ask about the social element of social media.

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English Riviera by any other name – Torbay’s tourism either changes track or carries on the same (we can’t work it out)

It’s difficult keeping up with the tourism to-ing and fro-ing in Torbay. For example, not six months since marketing guru Carolyn Custerson appeared on the scene telling the world that no one knew where the English Riviera is, she’s pushing it as the overall marketing strategy for the whole of Torbay.

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Got photos? Share them with the People’s Republic of South Devon


If you’re a photographer from Devon, or you take pictures of Devon, we’re keen to show off your work on the People’ s Republic of South Devon. You could be a photo-journalist, an portraitist or a happy snapper – it doesn’t matter, as long as your images do the talking (and if there’s a story with the picture, so much the better).

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Get ready for the latest media revolution! Er… local paper limps into technology

With the quaint hyperbole of ‘pushing the boundaries of information technology’, it seems the Mid-Devon Advertiser is taking its turn to follow what we’ve been doing on the People’s Republic of South Devon for ages – page-turning technology for publications, and apparently you can click on ‘links’ to get through to ‘advertisers’. Now that’s what we call the ‘wow’ factor.

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TARDIS deployed to fight the brain drain

A £1.7 million programme to keep highly talented people in the region has been approved by the South West Regional Development Agency.

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