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OMGGOPWTF.com Turns Republican Weirdness into Cash for Progressive Organizations

For a quick laugh and a chance to raise money for some good Lefties, but sure to head over to OMGGOPWTF.com. Here’s how the site works, according to Madeline Stanionis:

Each week, we post five questions about the latest conservative kookiness in the news. We invite people to take the quiz, and every correct answer will equal $0.10 for the featured progressive organization of the week. AKA conservative claptrap = lefty cash! Yay!

Good fun all around! And since they’ve raised hundreds to thousands of dollars for the chosen organizations, be sure to contact Heather Buchheim if yours might want to participate.

– cpd

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Quick Hits — February 2, 2010

Trying to do these a little more often…

• The GOP Rises Online, as New media help conservatives get their anti-Obama message out. They’re not alone: U.K. Conservatives Embrace Digital to Revamp Image.
• SOTU report: War Rooms Set Up for Speech, Using Web Tools, The SOTU Social Media Tug of War and Joe Wilson Responds to Obama, This Time on Facebook.
• Obama’s YouTube question and answer session, plus the results (nice suit, Steve!). And Still Yet More Questions for Obama: OFA Texts.
• Data Shows That Self-Reference Does Not Get Followers. But, social behavior does.
• Reading (Rifle) Magazines and what they might tell us about the Taliban.
• Slug Bug! Volkswagen Gets Punchy on Facebook for Super Bowl. C.f. Target’s Facebook Campaign Combines the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day.
• Right Rallies Behind ACORN ‘Pimp’.
• Scott Brown’s Online Fundraising Machine: Inside the Numbers. C.f. Inside the Scott Brown Cash Machine.
• Texas Tea Party Gubernatorial Candidate Plans Moneybomb, as the Republican National Committee Sends Out Fake Census Letter to Raise Money (opponents spread word via Twitter).
• The Technology Behind Texting For Aid, Four ways to send a text and Mobile Payment Processing on the iPhone. But Can Candidates Accept Text Contributions? (via Political Activity Law).
• From Google’s Issues and Advocacy Team: The Digital Playbook: Top 5 strategies for political campaigns. Plus, Google’s Poised For Politics (Note quotes from friends-of-e.politics Karen Jagoda and Josh Koster).
• Two cheers for objective journalism, in the face of online advocacy.
• YouTube as Video Store: how the site’s modest new movie rental service could radically change the way Hollywood does business.
• Raise High the P.R. Blitz.
• Smartphones + Social Media Earn Public “Citizen Responder” Role.
• Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake.
• Facebook Gets Deeper into Real-Times News with “News” List Push, via SocialMedia411.
• Grammy Ratings Surge; Did Social Media Play a Role?
• Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members, though apparently they still prefer MySpace. “Web 2.0 makes monitoring criminal activity easier for law enforcement officials.”
• Pelosi, Boehner Want Probe Of House Web Site Hackers.
• 250,000 White House Staffers, Visitors Affected by National Archives Data Breach.
• How Web Video SEO is Finally Coming of Age, YouTube now has auto captioning.
• The Most Oopsy-Prone Elements Of Email Marketing.
• Nonprofit Marketing Crisis: Survey Shows Messaging Fails to Connect With Key Audiences. C.f. Why Can’t All Cause Marketing Be This Amazing? Via Lorelei Harloe.
• Why Wikipedia has Accurate Health Information.
• Wikileaks Closes Operations Temporarily Due to Budget Woes.
• Lessons Learned from Twitter Campaigns on Twitcause.
• Website Tools to Analyze Social Sharing Activities.
• Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement.
• Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks Study.
• Candidate crashes Wisconsin campaign reporting site.
• Facebook COO: 175 Million People Log Into Facebook Every Day.
• Carole Crist, “The TWITTER,” and The Real Housewives of NYC.
• WordPress for Political Campaign Candidate Websites.
• Behind the Scenes on the NYC Dirty Oil Map, On the Usability of EDF’s Dirty Heating Oil Map.
• Who[m] to follow on twitter to get started on Gov2.0.
• The Congressperson from Craigslist?
• Bringing Local Government Into the 21st Century.
• [Not-So-Flattering] Inside Look at Obama’s Organizing for America, Part I.
• Outdoor: The only ad platform that survives social media.
• And finally: Argentina Prez Pushes ‘Sexy’ Pork.

– cpd

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