e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics

Five Must-Dos When You’re Planning A Web Project

Guest article! Tia Sumler, an old friend and the web guru at civilrights.org, has plumbed the depths and scaled the heights of her experiences with online projects and put together a list of things that you just might oughta do when you’re starting out on something new. This piece, like Heather Gardner-Madras’s recent article on choosing designers, can save you a ridiculous amount of time, money and grief (you have been warned).

Five Must-Dos When You’re Planning A Web Project

New online campaign? Site redesign? Transitioning to a CMS? Whatever online project you’re undertaking, here are five things that you must do. (There are a lot of other things you should do or could do, but I’m a busy lady. Five is all you get).

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Rebutting a Critic of Social Media (or, Why Mentos and Coke Might Save Us All)

Earlier today, while looking through a social media article at iMedia Connection, I came across a link to a Lakshmi Chaudhry piece in The Nation from a few weeks ago in which she takes some serious potshots at the new culture of online collective creativity.

Adopting the tone of scolds throughout time, she slams the younger generation (damn kids, get off my lawn!) as shallow and perpetually obsessed with dreams of personal fame. Citing carefully filtered sources (among them, the musings of reality TV stars and some 16-year-olds posting on a site called iWannaBeFamous.com), she draws the inevitable conclusion that as a culture we’re drowning in a sea of narcissism:

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