
People power and Elections - Part 1
ChangeMakers
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How to Block Your MP's Facebook Page
When Nicklek blocked, the campaign listened. Lots of people had stories about Andrew Nicklek. Maybe this was the local issue that Louise Morris had been looking for. They went to shopping centers and rolled out specially themed listening posts where they'd created an AndrewNicklek puppet. People would write what they wanted to say on his Facebook page but got blocked so it started getting around his blocks. It's actually really where the Get Up campaign kind of occupied space no one else was doing,. We were playing with the digital media space realising that Facebook has a really good reach in mass, older demographic like Facebook.
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