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Quick Hits — January 27, 2010

January 27th, 2010

The state of our linking is strong.

• Talking Back to Obama’s First State of the Union, via YouTube, plus Plouffe to OFA: Time to “Regroup, Refocus, and Re-engage” Around SOTU, [RNC] Tweeting the #SOTU and Live Tonight on YouTube: The State of the Union.
• ACORN “Pimp” Accused Of Landrieu Tap. Live by the scam, die by the scam — too bad the arrest isn’t on YouTube.
• DCCC Raises Nearly $56M in ’09. Plans to spend it all distributing copies of the Winning in 2010 guide.
• Nonprofit Technology Company Convio Refiles For $57.5 Million IPO.
• Twitter plans technology to stop censorship.
• Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show, as China Issues Sharp Rebuke to U.S. Calls for an Investigation on Google Attacks and the Chinese government sharply criticizes Clinton’s speech urging Internet freedom.
• Campaign Donations by Text Not Yet Possible.
• Justice Releases New Data Online.
• Boehner claims House Republicans dominate Twitter, YouTube and other social media in Congress. C.f. Republican Politicians Rule YouTube.
• Can the Internet Counter the Coming Gusher of Money in Politics? Don’t forget the e.pol take. C.f. Campaign-finance ruling may prove to be a lifeline for broadcast networks
• November doesn’t need to be a nightmare for Democrats. Note role of technology — where have we heard that before?
• VA Senate Majority Leader to Dem Candidate: You Will Use Web Ads (excellent shout-out to friend-of-e.politics Josh Koster). Also, experience The Joy of Google Ads.
• Grand Rapids team in high demand after iPhone app helped give Scott Brown edge in Massachusetts Senate race, via The Good Doktor Rosenblatt, plus Reverse Engineering Scott Brown’s Win: Breakthrough Field Apps and Age Old Political Arts and Brown: An Online Model for the GOP?
• In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent.
• Republicans Strain to Ride Tea Party Tiger. Note interwebby angle, and see also Tea Party Disputes Take Toll on Convention.
• Facebook largest mobile social network, Twitter fastest-growing. C.f. A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2010 and Facebook Data Team: How Diverse is Facebook? But, Has Twitter Peaked? (via Burt Edwards).
• 5 Social Media Lessons From the Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort, via Future:Media:Change. Plus, Haiti Rebuilds — The Birth of Global Citizen 1.0 and HAITI 90999/YELE 501501 or: How I Learned to Stop Fretting and Appreciate Social Networks.
• Is PR giving ‘Social Media’ a bad name? C.f. 6 Ways to Get People to Believe You Online, via Rebecca Churt.
• Scenes from a rally: anti-prorogation takes to the streets. Converting online enthusiasm into real world action in Canada — or not.
• Does Your Nonprofit Need a Social Media Guide?
• Wikified Army Field Guide.
• In the App Economy, Newspapers are Apps. YMMV.
• Internet backbone breaks the 100-gigabit barrier.
• Pentagon Report Calls for Office of ‘Strategic Deception’.
• Brown and His Daughters — a New Web Sensation.
• White House iPhone app presented by Gibbs.
• Guilty Plea in ‘Anonymous’ DDoS Scientology Attack.
• SMS Fundraising Campaign for Breast Cancer.
• Links, Context and Little Green Footballs.
• Air America Dies, Failing to Make Transition to Web.
• A next big step for grassroots democracy.
• Is Bureaucracy the Enemy of Social Media? Yes.
• Using Social Media to Advocate for Change.
• HOW TO: Use Social Media in Your PR Pitch Plan.
• Zombie Marketing: How to use Combined Relevance to Go Viral. Viruses AND zombies? Resident Evil, here we come… sweet Milla, save us all.
• Two cities, two mayors, two approaches to social media, as 20-year-Old Uses Facebook and Micro Donations to Run For Mayor and (Illinois) Gubernatorial candidates using new media.
• Online Communications Planning for Nonprofits.
• Even God wants you to blog. Is a papal post infallible?
• How Technology Is Altering The 2010 Landscape.
• A Former Congressman’s Take on an Effective Grassroots Advocacy Campaign.
• YouTube Political Campaign Videos for Local Elections, How video can dominate advertising, 3 Tips for Optimizing Videos for Search, and Learn the Secrets to Low-Budget, High-Creativity Filmmaking.
• Presidential Political Campaign Sign Designs: 1960.
• Integrating Your Website, Email Newsletter and Social Media Sites.
• Technology is Tactics, not Strategy, but Online politics still politics.
• 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites.
• Requiem for Port-au-Prince. Port-au-Prince before the earthquake, as described by Haitian writers and visitors to the island nation.
• In Afghanistan attack, CIA fell victim to series of miscalculations about informant.
• Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban.
• What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter?
• 6 online (product) campaigns that had to be pulled.
• Simulators Prepare Soldiers for Explosions of War.
• 2009 Online Giving? 10 Questions.
• Judiciary 2.0 — Prop. 8, YouTube and the Supreme Court.
• Republicans’ allies eye state legislatures as redistricting nears.
• In Obama’s decision-making, a wide range of influences (including the ‘nets).
• SEO FAIL — Optimizing for “I Love Boobies”. Putting the squeeze on a soft target.
• The continuing tragedy of human existence: No Dungeons & Dragons in Prison.

– cpd