- How a Ragtag Band of Activists Won the Battle for Net Neutrality .
- Jeb Bush’s new web chief scrambles to erase embarrassing tweets about gays and women. Also, hateful, rude, etc., and c.f. Jeb Bush’s New Chief Of Tech Has Female Trouble: Slut Shaming . Not surprisingly, Bush aide resigns after controversial tweets.
- Aaron Schock Adviser Quits After Comparing Black People to Zoo Animals on Facebook, caught by ThinkProgress. Story via PoliticalWire.
- Why won’t political aides watch what they post on social media? “The place doesn’t lack for narcissism,” one former Senate aide told The Hill, and social media “plays to the worst sort of instincts in politicos.”
- People in Scott Walker’s “Our American Revival” PAC Debut Ad Actually Foreigners.
- Ben Carson’s Rise Fueled By Massive Direct Marketing Success, via PoliticalWire.
- Social Media Savvy Rand Paul Debuts Liberty Football on Super Bowl Weekend, and How Rand Paul Is Getting Around the Senate’s Social-Media Rules.
- Why Republicans haven’t closed the gap on targeting and tactics. One word: science. C.f. Why Democrats Still Lead Republicans in Online Fundraising.
- The Democrats’ Secret Staffing Advantage in 2016.
- The political potential of Instagram.
- Twitter’s Elegance Problem.
- The Vice President Meets Vice Media.
- Facebook boasts nearly 1.4 billion monthly users in newly released data. Mobile growth dominates.
- Facebook Is Eating the Media: How auto-play videos could put news websites out of business.
- Coming to Your Facebook Feed: More Political Videos.
- Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet. One cause: Facebook-only data plans for developing-world cellphone users.
- In Less Than Two Years, a Smartphone Could Be Your Only Computer.
- Media Consolidation Changed Political Campaigns.
- In politics, a great e-mail list still trumps a buzzy social media account. And it’s not close..
- Hackers Use Old Lure on Web to Help Syrian Government.
- Bellingcat Ukraine Conflict Vehicle Tracking Project. Via social media, assembling a database of Russian equipment moving into Ukraine.
- British Military Creates A Social Media Army.
- Delhi elections 2015: Political parties slug it out on social media. C.f. AAP’s social media wave: With a million tweets in a month, Arvind Kejriwal high on Twitter meter.
- Big Data Comes To Israeli Politics: Controversy over a U.S.-funded get-out-the-vote group on the left shaking up campaign.
- The Blog Comment That Achieved an Internet Miracle.
- Hackathon invents the digital tools to fix Congress. Good on ’em, but YMMV.
- Bush Releases [Selected] Emails from Time as Governor.
- Confessions of an ICT4D Advisor: I Hate Technology.
- Should a Petition Be Part of Your Advocacy Strategy?
- Can Associations Ignore Instagram?
- What Social Listening Can Do for Associations.
- ‘Scam PACs’ Becoming Increasingly Common.
- Announcing the 2015 Adfero Eight, a cool experiment in digital storytelling.
- SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: SCOTUSblog denied press credential.
- On Jackie Robinson West and Coming to Terms With the Use (or Misuse) of Public Data.
- GOP consultant admits to illegal coordination.
- Getting voters to the polls with social pressure.
- Picking an online fundraising platform.
- Infographic: 10 Things To Consider In Your Social Media Strategy.
- Report: Insights Into Nonprofit’s 2015 Digital Strategy.
- 12 ways to get more donations on your landing pages.
- A Dashboard That Lets You Easily Connect Web Services, From Email to Twitter.
- Ukip candidate quits after ‘endorsing far-right homophobic rant online’ .
- What Anti-Vaccinators Are Saying Online About the Disneyland Measles Outbreak .
- 12 Must-Follow Nonprofits on Tumblr.
- 15 Must-Know Fundraising and Social Media Stats.
- The Hot Yet Little-Known Trend That’ll Supercharge AI.
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– cpd
