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Quick Hits — February 2, 2010

February 2nd, 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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