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Danish politics and social networking tools

The Danish prime minister called a general election yesterday and it made me wonder how many Danish party leaders are actually using social networking tools like LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace.

A quick search gave the following results:

LinkedIn MySpace Facebook
Helle Thorning-Schmidt   MySpace Facebook
Anders Fogh Rasmussen   MySpace Facebook
Margrethe Vestager     Facebook
Villy Søvndal      
Bendt Bendtsen      
Bodil Kornbek      
Pia Kjærsgaard      
Naser Khader LinkedIn    
Frank Aaen      

Only the two main candidates use two of the tools, Facebook and MySpace. Neither Anders Fogh Rasmussen nor Helle Thorning-Schmidt are using the more serious tool, LinkedIn. From the above it looks like Danish politicians still do their canvassing without social networking tools.

Recently, US democratic senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama consulted LinkedIn users about small businesses and entrepreneurs and connected with almost 1500 LinkedIn users who responded to the question, but it looks like this type of campaign has not yet come to Denmark.

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    October 26, 2007 at 12:05 am

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