Remember all that money your organization, campaign or company spent on Facebook Ads designed to build a following for your Facebook Page? Well, that real estate is steadily losing its value: With the introduction of the “subscribe”...
Update: The good folks at PopVox will be tweeting out links to any legislation mentioned in the SOTU and the Republican response at @PopVox. Handy! Big news today — my NWLC colleague Danielle Jackson and I are invited to the White House (along...
Howdy folks, on Saturday I sat down with NationBuilder’s Chief Organizer Adriel Hampton (via Skype) to talk about, well, a lot! We started with a focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd’s new education on the power of internet...
Also published on HuffingtonPost Here’s an angle that just occurred to me about today’s widespread online protests against the “Stop Online Piracy Act”: normally we talk about digital activism being HOSTED on the internet...
Oh man, do I love some skepticism, and Trilogy Interactive’s Will Bunnett and Steve Olson have a healthy dose of it for us today. Remember those stories about social media “predicting” the outcome of this year’s Iowa Caucus...
Courtesy of our friend Steven Kleine, Principal at Ensomo (a social media monitoring and analysis firm), see below for a graph of the online mentions of the various Republican presidential candidates in the week ending Friday, December 30th. (If you...
As part of last weekend’s Netroots NY, I got to run a couple of trainings with Abigail Collazo, one on Twitter and the other on internet fundraising. For each training, I put together takeaway tip sheets; the one for the Twitter 101 is below...
A first morsel from Netroots NY — right after co-hosting a Twitter 101 session with Abigail Collazo, I spoke for a few minutes with TJ Walker from The Daily National: I’ll be posting a Twitter 101 cheat sheet from the training later...
Hi folks, I hope you’re enjoying the end-of-year frenzy — I’m just wrapping up the last details of the NWLC’s EOY online fundraising email sequence, and I’m sure all of our inboxes will be filling up soon with various...
Guest article! This comes in from Kimling Lam, Marketing & Communications Director at Meltwater Group. Meltwater is following the presidential candidates on social media this cycle and produced the analysis below, which also appeared on their...