It’s an old idea on Epolitics.com, but a good one still — email and social networks work well together, no matter how many people try to predict (for instance) that Facebook dooms email to irrelevance. Two good examples popped up today, the first in an email from the Center for American Progress:
To be progressive is to be connected. To stay on top of what’s going on, and to spread
progressive ideas to your networks. To challenge conservative misinformation with the facts.
And CAP’s Facebook page can help. Just go to www.facebook.com/americanprogress and click
on the “Like” button at the top of the page:
[big blue button]
After you’ve clicked “Like,” click the “Suggest to Friends” link on the left side of the page to
invite your Facebook friends to join you.
Yep, you can use email to build a base of support on Facebook, helping to create critical mass for future viral growth. Just as you can also use a Facebook Page to build your email list, as Oceana recently did — over 60 days, they gained 5000+ email-list signups and more than 4000 new Facebook “likes”. The keys? Engaging supporters consistently on their Facebook Page, providing people with information and giving them opportunities to sign up for actions while also being sensitive to any blowback (i.e., they were careful not to overdo it). They also made it easy to act, in part by including an online petition in a tab directly on their Facebook Page. So the next time someone presents email and Facebook as an either/or proposition, set ‘em straight — for their own good.
– cpd
August 31st, 2010
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The elements themselves may have ganged up against us the last time we tried this, but let’s see if we can get together and whoop it up WITHOUT provoking the wrath of water, wind and fire. Come kick off your Labor Day weekend a day early at a…
Re-Scheduled Summer Party at The Reef: An Epolitics.com Production
Yes, it’s time for a knock-down, drag-out, old-school party of the highest caliber possible, featuring all the people you like and none of the ones you don’t, plus food, booze and good times all around. Here’s the scoop:
- This coming Thursday, September 2nd, starting at 6 pm sharp
- On the main floor of The Reef in Adams Morgan (DC), just a flight of stairs away from a lovely roof deck
- 6 pm until ???
- Open bar for the first few rounds of drinks
- Plus plenty of tasty Reef appetizers and snacky foods, all enviro-friendly to boot
Let’s grab hold of these last long days of summer and wring all good times out of them we can. And with much of DC out of town for the holiday weekend, it’s a good opportunity to shuffle the social deck as well — we have new friends to introduce to old, plus plenty of trouble to get into along the way.
Hope to see you Thursday! YOU WILL WANT TO ARRIVE EARLY OR ON TIME, ’cause the free booze will only last so long, and then you’ll have to cry in a beer you purchased with your own hard-earned cash (buy me one while you’re at it, thanks). Looking forward to an absolutely kickass good time, and you should too. Rock and roll. BTW, here’s the Facebook invite, should you heed your mother’s advice to always RSVP.
– cpd
August 31st, 2010
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Finally! A much-needed revision of the legendary Online Politics 101 is under way, a little over two years since its last substantive rewrite. The new version will have an entirely new chapter on Twitter, for a start, and will also see plenty of detail changes throughout. I’m about a third of the way through the document now, and hope to have it wrapped up within the next week or two. Fortunately, Learning from Obama and the Winning in 2010 guide are much more up-to-date, so I’ll be lifting some text from them, and I’ve also been hitting up experts on various topics for ideas. Watch this space….
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August 31st, 2010
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