Quick Hits — August 5, 2011
Because too much is never enough.
- Email suggests Perry “Poised to Enter” Presidential Race. Meanwhile, Gov. Perry Tweets About Meeting Khalilzad and Rick Perry Implores Conservatives To Follow Him On ‘Tweeter’.
- NationalField: The Private Social Network That’s Reinventing the Ground Game. Plus, NationBuilder: The Voter File Was Meant to Be Free, as MoveOn gets into the online petition business and Obama Builds Data Team That Could Inform Digital Ads, Social. Finally, Salsa Labs Raises $5M to Bring Online Organizing Technologies to the Masses.
- What the RAF’s World War II Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas.
- 1 in 3 mobile workers check email first. Note: including the young ‘uns. Next, Need a mobile strategy? Start with your email. Plus, 6 Quick Tips for Designing Emails for Mobile Devices, Three Ways to Adapt Your Email Communications to Changing Times, and Optimizing Email for Mobile Including, Especially, BlackBerry.
- Persuasion Points Online: Helping Harry Reid, One Click at a Time.
- First Ad of the 2012 Campaign running online, as Obama and DNC Spent Over $1 Million on 2012 Web Ads and Romney Tops Digital Ad Spending by GOP Contenders. Next, why Why Video Is Key to Jon Huntsman’s Digital Campaign, and Jon Huntsman’s Wired New Hampshire Team.
- The Worst of the 2012 Candidates on Facebook.
- Obama White House Unveils New Head of “Online Response”.
- Small Donors v Maxed-Out Donors (note: Mitt’s money comes at a cost). C.f. The 2012 Money Race: Compare the Presidential Candidates. More: For some political junkies, donating repeatedly is way to get fix, but they’re Political Actors, Not Political Addicts.
- Multiple Choice Mitt. On every side of every issue… even as GOP.com predicts an Obama second term?
- How the internet helped make Herman Cain possible; internet now subject to war-crimes tribunal. Plus, Cong. Joe Walsh a YouTube star (if only that’d pay the pesky child support).
- Don’t vote Republican! (It’ll get you killed).
- Versace Deletes Facebook Protest, Prevents 500,000 Fans from Posting to Page (meanies). Via Lauren Glickman.
- Google+ Usage Declines: 5 Reasons Why. C.f. Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?
- Twitter Use Reaches 13%, Strongest Among Minority Groups. Reaction: Hooray for Twitter’s Black Tilt.
- Undercover wildlife officers use Facebook, social media to catch poachers.
- Americans Elect: Can an Internet-Powered 3rd Party Transform 2012? I’ll make this easy: NO.
- Twitter-As-Rapid-Response in Pennsylvania Politics.
- Congress: Do they hear you now?. Dos and don’ts for contacting Congress, by friend-of-e.politics Michelle Shefter.
- How to sell Big Oil on the Web.
- A New Project to Score Politicians With Klout, as opposed to scoring them in a hotel bar. And, Nine Ways to Engage Bloggers. Fortunately, no scoring involved.
- On Gay Rights, Moving Real-Life Friends to Action.
- A profile of Dana Loesch, conservative blogger/Twitter activist who’s now on CNN.
- Facebook: Not So Global After All? C.f. Pentagon seeks social networking experts, via Burt Edwards.
- Matt Drudge has cool new white supremacist fans, and The disturbing copy-and-paste habits of Russell Pearce (you are what you steal).
- A really good online politics reading list, and a Free online advocacy course for the deaf.
- President Obama on Tech’s Role in Mideast Uprisings, and Social media key to human rights fight: Amnesty. Plus, Egyptian activist: Tech firms can foment revolutions.
- What Does the Social Good Ecosystem Look Like? [INFOGRAPHIC].
- Crowdfunding Dissent.
- Obama’s Digital-Age Advantage: Spending 18 months in the full-time glare of electronic media can only diminish his Republican challengers.
- Secret Service Employee Accidentally Tweets About ‘Blathering’ While ‘Monitoring’ Fox News.
- Cops not so fond of cell-phone video.
- Why I Will Never, Ever Hire A “Social Media Expert”.
- Meet the ex-Democrat Developer Now Seeking to Sell Tools to the GOP.
- One on One with Former President Clinton — Terrorism in the Information Age. C.f. Beyond Bill Clinton’s Internet Truth Squad Idea.
- Speaking of terrorism, White House ‘Rickrolls’ Twitter followers? Kinda.
- How Governments Are Using Social Media for Better & for Worse.
- 5 Social Media Mythbusters: The Nonprofits Edition meets Five Social Media Myths You Need to Know.
- Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It).
- Doing the Math: Calculating Campaign Success.
- Key to viral spread: the ability of influencers to get their followers to act. Plus, The Value of a Follower: Newt, Obama, GOP candidates and measuring influence online, and What’s a Facebook Fan Worth? Depends on How Many Friends They Have.
- Is It Time to Shut Down Your Website? I’ll make it easy again: no (via Burt Edwards).
- 4 ways to stomp out a social media wildfire.
- Tips for advertising in online video.
- NARAL’s clever Facebook app.
- Greenpeace Hires EchoDitto’s Michael Silberman to Launch Global Digital Innovation Lab. Nice gig, man!
- A five-point guide to getting your tweets retweeted, and 5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Get More ReTweets. Plus, How to Improve the SEO Value of Your Twitter Account.
- Seven Tips to Boost Your Email Open Rates meets Tips for Optimizing Your Donation Page.
- Real-Time Analytics Turn the Web Into a Targeted Broadcast.
- The Almost-Free Toolkit We Use to Make Longshot Magazine.
- Oral Culture, Literate Culture, Twitter Culture. Plus, 4chanomics: What the influential, hilarious, revolting message board teaches us about Internet culture.
- DCCC raising off Boehner’s tears. Introducing the weepometer!
- CA-36 race got innnnteresting online. And by innnnteresting, we mean porn.
- Your Good News for the Day: Palin Documentary Sputters Out. Balanced by: Ashton Kutcher has a Twitter App.
- And finally, the comics page: This is the web right now illuminates one set of truths, while So you’re mad about something on the internet nails another (via Charles Lenchner).
– cpd
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