e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics

Speaking at Organizing 2.0 in NYC February 13th

Just confirmed! I’m very excited to be speaking at the Organizing 2.0 conference, a “Training in Online Skills for Labor and Social Justice Activists,” held in NYC on Sunday, February 13th. Last year’s event was terrific, and this time around I’m looking forward to learning a ton and meeting some great folks committed to making the world a better place.

At the December, 2009 edition, Charles Lenchner and I had a great conversation about applying the lessons of the ’08 Obama campaign to local political campaigns and issue advocacy efforts, and it lives on still through the magic of online video. Check it out below:

And finally, the oft-promised Online Politics 101 rewrite is just a few short hours away from completion — the content is complete with the publication of yesterday’s Twitter chapter, and all that’s left is to pull the various pieces together into the final PDF package. Woo hoo! Get ready to spread the word….

– cpd

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Online Advocacy Tools: Twitter

New Online Politics 101 chapter

Twitter is the newest significant weapon in the online politics arsenal: while it was a very limited arena as recently as the 2008 elections (Barack Obama had all of 50,000 followers by Election Day!), it’s exploded in popularity since. Though the two sites are often lumped together in the popular mind, Twitter isn’t quite a mass medium in the same way Facebook has become — it’s more of a channel to reach the “network influentials,” since it’s particularly popular with bloggers, journalists and activists. In fact, a very high percentage of Twitter profiles people create are abandoned within months, making it a tool with more of a specialized following.

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