e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics

Today’s Digital Politics Discussion Now Online

Hi y’all, today’s discussion with Karen Jagoda is now online — listen directly [mp3], or check out previous editions of the Digital Politics Show. Our official topic was voter engagement over the ‘net, but Karen and I covered a ton of fun subjects ranging from Twitter to political organizing to building that all-important personal fan base. Give it a listen.

– cpd

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Quick Hits — May 21, 2009

STILL haven’t caught up on the online politics and advocacy blogs, but let’s clear the proverbial cache and make room for some fresh links.

• Congratulations to Adam Conner and Tanya Tarr!
• 6 in 10 Twitter Users Jump Ship Within a Month.
• White House Reaches Out via E-Mail on Health-Care Reform.
• 2009 email fundraising and advocacy benchmark report released. C.f. Highlights from the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study.
• Auto Buzz: Toyota Has Strongest Online Advocacy.
• Study Shows Social Media Releases Are Less Effective Than Traditional Press Releases, via Amanda Chapel.
• Be honest: We don’t want young voters. “Online politics is a big fat myth” (in Canada).
• Despite Tools, It’s About the Story.
• The day the bloggers won.
• House GOP using YouTube-based strategy against Dems in floor debate.
• The YouTube Confirmation: What Supreme Court shortlisters are saying when they think nobody is listening.
• BBC Twestion Time Takes Off with bbcqt hashtag: 3000 Tweets in one Hour.
• New York Congressional Campaign Used Rare Google Ad Tactic.
• Major Front in Va. Race Is Online: Candidates Court Facebook, Blogs in New Political Era.
• Tasteless tactics and the brands that use them (e.politics sad not to make the list).
• When Did Your County’s Jobs Disappear? An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country.
• Social Media Study Finds Most Nonprofits Have Presence on Facebook But Raising Little Money.
• Political strategists launch online ad network for issue advocacy.
• Scourge of political cyber-squatting.
• U.S. Department of Blogging: What the rest of the government can learn from the TSA.
• Little Brother Is Watching You.
• Funny Anti-Gay-Marriage Ad Sparks YouTube Revolt.
• LEGO Battleship Yamato Completed!. Now we’re talkin’ AWESOME.
• Social Networks For 2009 That Web Workers Need To Pay Attention To.
• Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign to the Web.
• If politics were more like the internet… that would be a good thing.
• Turkish TV Anchor Dons Blackface to Address Obama, Internet Responds.
• The YouTube Presidency (good piece, though e.politics grows weary of the construction “the [insert web 2.0 trend or website] presidency/election/revolution,” but not quite as weary as of the phrase “perfect storm,” which now stands in for “perfect inability to avoid cliche”).
• A Clinton Carnival of Prizes.
• Choosing A Database? Mistakes To Avoid.
• Corporations see need to respond to Twitter.
• How Technology Won the Presidency, Part I.
• Email Compliments For Nonprofits (from the corporate world).
• Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide.
• Broken bloggers (in the UK) meets Don’t write off blogging.
• Liberals swap Wii fun for online fluff (in Canada).
• New Journal: International Journal of E-Politics. The academics want to play on our turf!
• Is Part of the United States in the Third World? (via Brad Terrell).
• Meet the brands that ‘get’ Twitter.
• Downing Street website hosts petition calling for Gordon Brown to resign.
• Obama & Fundraising: Lets get real!
• Always consider the source….
• In Egypt, a blogger tries to spread ‘culture of disobedience’ among youths.
• Palin’s online army marches on.
• So, why should I care about Facebook? Choosing the Right Social Media and Web Tools for Your Organization.
• A Tweeter in the White House.
• Candidates utilize Facebook, blogs in a new political era.
• LabourList: a turnaround strategy?
• Twitterjacking’ — Identity Theft in 140 Characters or Less.
• 10 Things Every Nonprofit Should Know About Social Media and Online Communications.
• Feds Go Online to Brief Masses About Swine Flu.
• Facebook copies Twitter, opens API to developers.
• Older Users Help Facebook Grow.
• Liberal blogs vs. the Obama administration.
• Beating Somali Pirates at Their Own Game.
• 7 ways to get more out of your creative.
• Victory gardens and online advocacy.
• Mobile Advocacy and Fundraising: Live Blogging 2009 NTC.
• Oklahoma Man Arrested for Twittering Tea Party Death Threats.
• Online Video: Viral Isn’t Everything.
• Flash activists use social media to drum up support.
• All You Need to Know to Twitter, via A Loyal Reader (thanks Pops!).
• Barack Hussein Obama’s un-American mustard choice riles the blogosphere.
• MySpace to Drag SocNet Ad Spend Down 3%.
• The View from Stanford: Why Video Marketing and Email Marketing Make a Perfect Match.
• 10 Things Every Nonprofit Should Know About Social Media and Online Communications.
• Nuts and Bolts of Online Social Networking.
• Middle-Agers Help Hulu Grow 490% Tivo killing your television ads? Maybe you should look somewhere else.
• ‘Power Moms’ Comprise 20% of Online Population.
• How Changing a Button Increased a Site’s Annual Revenues by $300 Million, via Violet Bliss Dietz.
• 13 Essential Social-Media ‘Listening Tools.’
• April’s Top 50 Websites: SocNets, Swine Flu Top-of-Mind.
• China and Russia v. the US Grid! Or is it just hype?
• Big Ivan, The Tsar Bomba (“King of Bombs”). Now this is real AND freaky.
• Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face. Yes, it’s satire.
• Maps of the Seven Deadly Sins in the U.S., another Brad Terrell find.
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to peer into history. A beautifully layered story, with an unexpected coda.

– cpd

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