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Quick Hits — December 24, 2012, Part One (The Advocacy Edition)

December 24th, 2012

So much online politics goodness has built up since our last Quick Hits, we had to have two of them today. The list below has an advocacy/marketing slant; c.f. today’s Quick Hits Campaign 2012 Edition for terrific resources on the Obama and Romney campaigns and more.

• Obama Deploys Campaign List to Hammer GOP on Taxes and Discharge. C.f. more on Obama supporter-mobilization around year-end negotiations. Meanwhile, Obama makes statement on Twitter and at White House for #40dollars campaign on payroll tax cut, Obama allies press Republican lawmakers to accept higher taxes (online), and Tell Boehner: Don’t Hold the Middle Class Hostage.
• Right rages (online) at Boehner fiscal cliff debacle.
• Industry changes may affect Democrats’ domination in digital politics. More on Change.org, Salsa and NationBuilder in a well reported piece from Rachel Weiner.
• Will Racist Tweets Help Obama?
• Online, Shaping a Narrow Debate After Newtown Shooting.
• The Real Lesson of the Petraeus Scandal: We delude ourselves about the way we use technology.
• How Syria Turned Off the Internet.
• CyberCity allows government hackers to train for attacks.
• Agencies turn to social media to engage public in an emergency.
• MoveOn Bets Its Future On Volunteered Ideas.
• ‘Radio Pirates’ Used Medium As An Organizing Tool.
• Release the Thunderclap. “One part Twitter, one part Facebook, and three parts Kickstarter, with a twist of advocacy.”
• Make New Media Work for You: 4 Steps to Automated Campaigning.
• The scrappy Syrian TV station where reporters file via Facebook and Gchat.
• Watch Kellan Lutz Play a Top-Secret Agent Obsessed With Social Media.
• Israel turns to Twitter to announce military hit, but Instagram Photos of Smiling Soldiers Show Israel Is Now Losing Its Gaza Social Media War. C.f. How Not to Wage War on the Internet.
• Taliban accidentally CCs everybody on its mailing list.
• A Worthwhile White House Petition. To get rid of the White House petition site. Meanwhile, White House Must Answer Petition To ‘Build Death Star’ even as Build the Death Star and Other White House Petitions Doomed From the Start.
• Can’t Allen West Just Come Back in 2014? Note the scam fundraising email.
• Why Congress can’t deliberate. I’m not the only one who thinks Congressional staff cuts have bad effects.
• Targeted Content: The Holy Grail of Content Marketing.
• ControlShift Labs brings deep member engagement to the masses.
• Twitter for a cause.
• Is Social Media Making Organizations Lazy?
• How One Women’s Rights Group Is Betting On Facebook in 2013. Note: a campaign e.politics helped to plan. C.f. Driving engagement on Facebook.
• Pew: 82% use cell phones to take pictures. C.f. In Instagram’s War With Twitter, the First Casualty Is Truth.
• Nielsen: Significant social media growth driven by mobile.
• FTC Proposes Ban on Ad Network’s Use of History-Sniffing Cookies.
• The Advocacy Gap: Research for Better Advocacy.
• 5 ways to stop wasting your Google Grant.
• US media helped anti-Muslim bodies gain influence, distort Islam.
• How Social Media Impacts TV and Film Ratings.
• Why Facebook can be like a newborn baby.
• Understanding Like-Gate, the ongoing crisis over how far your Facebook content goes.
• How Google’s Panda and Penguin are affecting your site’s rankings. The best SEO strategy remains: good content. Related: Instead of blaming EdgeRank, focus on better content.
• Building and spending social media equity.
• Strategies to Manage an Online Crisis.
• Is Your Year-End Communication Up To Snuff? Plus, 10 Tips for Year-end Fundraising.
• #GivingTuesday Shines a Light on Philanthropy, Service and American Generosity and Creates Opening Day for the Giving Season. C.f. My 2 cents on #GivingTuesday.
• The Secret Lives of Supercutters: Why people spend so many hours stitching footage into YouTube collages.
• 100 Fascinating Social Media Statistics and Figures From 2012 meets 11 Biggest Social Media Disasters of 2012.
• Landmark Study Shows How Social Media Has Revolutionized Our Toilet Habits.
• GUYS, There’s a New York Times Parody Account on Twitter, and the Times’ Lawyers Are ON IT.
• And finally, How a web design goes straight to hell. This one should feel familiar to a lot of you.

– cpd