Quick Hits — February 8, 2009
February 8th, 2009
- Congressman Twitters a Security Breach, as Hoekstra Twitters Details of Iraq Codel.
- Stimulating the Netroots — Obama/DNC stimulus bill outreach has social media angle. C.f. e.politics coverage, plus The Challenge of Managing Obama’s Advocacy Organization.
- Lessons from a Modern RNC Chair Race, as RNC Chairman Michael Steele Uses YouTube to Deliver Weekly Republican Address.
- Boener to Obama: do you fear my videos? C.f. Building a YouTube Problem for Obama and Congress Jumps on Web 2.0 Bandwagon.
- Responding to Online Criticism: The Air Force Approach.
- Op-Ed: Time for Israel Advocacy 2.0.
- New Dates for 2009 Politics Online Conference.
- F-22 Stealth Jet Gets Online Push, as a Jobs Program via display ads and an “email your president” website. Plus, (announcing the launch of) StimulusWatch.org.
- President Obama Versus the CW Machine, Round One.
- Dispatches from the Culture11 Wars. Death of an online magazine.
- Pajamas Media Puts (Conservative) Blog Ad Network to Bed.
- David Plouffe Gets the Esquire Treatment.
- Tracking The Washington Elite.
- Identity Politics: A Social Media Election Retrospective.
- New Media, New Channels of Influence — report on a presentation by Obama’s Scott Goodstein.
- GOP.gov overhaul a change we can believe in, via TechRepublican. C.f. Sarah Palin’s PAC Website.
- YouTuber has his say about paid parking debate.
- Mapping Political Website success in Google: A New Technique and First Results.
- Dirty SEO tricks you should avoid.
- Obama, The ‘Revolution’ in Online Politics — And What Happens Next.
- President Obama Clone Brings Chocolate Avatars To Street Fighter Online. C.f. Apple Rejects Obama Trampoline iPhone App, Leaves TechCrunch Puzzled.
- How ‘in line’ communications won it for Obama, as Libraries and Librarians “Learning from the Obama Campaign,” ‘We’ has power over ‘me,’ and Tips for using multichannel marketing if you’re NOT on the Obama Campaign.
- Online Fundraisers: The Eyes Have It, plus Best blogs for fundraisers and Everything You Wanted to Know About Online Fundraising in a Bad Economy.
- The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1.
- (Local Chicago) Politicians’ Web sites not so entertaining.
- Internet Technology in the Obama Age: Helping People Change Government.
- Make Your Nonprofit Technology Resolutions a Reality in 2009.
- Pickens Plan Web Program Wins Reed Award.
- Coleman Now Trolling Internet For More Voters.
- Well-Connected Parents Take On School Boards.
- Bong hit cell phone camera photo causes Michael Phelps grief — use of phone cameras at parties now punishable by death.
- Software Swarm to Spot Rocket-Propelled Grenades Before They’re Fired.
- Google Quietly Declares E-Mail War on Yahoo.
- Colorado Man Faces 10 Years for Threatening Obama by E-Mail.
- Expanding the base for an issue by tracking connections in the blogosphere. C.f. The Feminist Web According to Linkfluence.
- Launch a denial-of-service attack/commit a felony — against your Halo 3 enemy.
- Redesigning the Government (websites): FEC.
- Can social networking fix U.S. image? Via A Loyal Reader (thanks Dad!).
- Google Earth provides dizzying 3D views of Mars .
- How to control a herd of humans.
- Oh, the (25) random things we do for the sake of Facebook.
- Twitter: New User Quick Start Guide, while Do You Have to Follow People to Use Twitter Correctly?
- A New Site for Clinton’s Constituents.
- Facebookers Back Howard Dean for HHS Secretary.
- Just How Smart Are Your Social Media Objectives?
- Mobiles in Advocacy Redux — Tips and Advice.
- Serious networked governance paper from Joe Trippi, David Weinberger, Britt Blaser.
- Online outreach metrics & budgeting.
- Rise of the Goverati.
- Starting a Campaign? Give New Media the Scoop.
- Marketing to an older generation? Don’t dismiss Facebook!, since Facebook Nearly 20 Percent Bigger Than MySpace in US, but it’s Banned In Baltimore: Maryland General Assembly Blocks Facebook, MySpace.
- How progressives can use Twitter: a strategic perspective (DRAFT), plus 500 Club — The Most Followed Government Twitter Streams.
- Banner Ad Quality Sinks to New Lows.
- Tips for Giving Social Media Projects to Interns. Tip #1: make sure they’re not batshit crazy — I made that mistake once.
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled: Ways to Distribute Content Proliferating Like Bunnies.
- Make Your Web Site Press-Friendly, So Journalists Cover Your Org.
- Information Age Volunteerism — Open Sourced! Crowdsourced!
- E-Mail Outage Forces White House to Operate the Oldfangled Way. Now burning appointees’ tax returns for heat.
- Free Buzz monitoring Tools.
- Google’s New Energy Lobbyists.
- 10 Steps for Planning a Successful Webinar.
- Obama’s Secret Record Collection (note: vinyl was once “new media”). Meanwhile, MySpace Begins Monetizing Music Videos With Impressive Results.
- How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address. Awesome! Be sure to zoom in — terrific level of detail. Via Antonia Kreuger.
– cpd
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Beth Kanter | February 8th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
wow, what a pile of links. Any patterns that emerge?
2. cpd | February 8th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Good question! I’d say two things: the steady growth of Republicans and conservatives online, both in terms of the tools they use and in terms of the number of voices talking about online advocacy. Second, just the general fact that there’s an online angle to just about ANY communications story these days, if you look for it.
Bonus observation: articles about the Obama campaign are still a good sell — everybody clearly wants to know what they did right.
3. Beth Kanter | February 9th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Thanks! What do you think they did right?
4. cpd | February 9th, 2009 at 11:36 am
That question, my friend, requires a full-on article series to answer — and I’m working on it!
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