Posts filed under 'Text Messaging'
- Update: The Obama Camp Dials It Forward. Post-primary conference call plays it subtle, while all is well in ClintonLand.
- McCain Launches Spanish-Language Website. Wonder how the Minutemen (no, not THE Minutemen) will feel about THAT one?
- Bury bad news with online press releases. Somebody forward this to Hillary Clinton. C.f. Craigslist Ad Of The Day.
- The critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin. From gin to sitcoms to lolcats, via Henry Copeland.
- Bunches o’ Studies and Stats on Nonprofit Marketing.
- How-To: 10 Tips for Launching a Solid Podcast.
- Two new guides to presidential online advertising from Clickz, Online Presidential Display Ads Leading to the 2008 Primaries and All Primaries Are Local: 2008 Presidential Campaigns Buy Local Online.
- The Tale of the E-mail. Hillary and Barack’s constrasting post-Indiana/NC notes. C.f. She’s Still In, And She’s Still In To Win.
- Pew Study Confirms Cell Phones Rule.
- Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth.
- Right now, I’m watching the President of the Utah State Senate on my desktop. Julie, you had me at “desktop.”
- Google Reader is becoming more of a social networking application.
- Twitter Post Rescues Jailed Journalist, but Egyptians ignore Facebook call.
- How the White House lost 5 million e-mails.
- Jailed Chinese Journalist Shi Tao’s Poem Follows Olympic Torch’s Route Online.
- Matt Stoller on how liberals rule the web, and The Baltimore Sun on how Matt and friends raised 400K for Donna Edwards. Via tPrez.
- Phantom Obama Vote Appears on NJ Voting Machine.
- Web Ads from Left and Right Advocacy Groups Signal More to Come.
- Media criticism in context: “Yes, it would be nice if the press spent less time on inanities and more time on how candidates planned to actually run the country. But this view of the media is just too simplistic.” Via Salon.
- North Carolina Radio Host Reports Anti-Obama Chain E-Mail Distortion As Fact. C.f. Pennebaker: Clip Doctored, about the Mickey Kantor video distortion. (also via tPrez).
- Union-organizing emails get employees of a social networking site fired! Sent around by Michael Whitney.
- Clinton’s and McCain’s Gasoline Tax Holiday Reimagined as a Phishing Scam.
- National Intelligence Agency Breaks Out RSS Feed.
- 6% are Natural Born Clickers.
- Twitter frenzy! Using Twitter for Your Organization, Use TwitterFone For Easy Voice-To-Text On Twitter, and Political Junkies Congregate and Comment on Election Results Through Twitter. Plus, 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence and The Bivings Group Does Twitter.
- Yes, a Montana cattle ranch is using banner ads combined with search ads to sell their premium beef via the internet.
- 10 Valuable Tips for Shooting Web Video. Via Frogloop.
- Google, YouTube and the city of New Orleans try to host their own presidential forum. Via Mike Allen.
- Video: how primary-season attacks have been amplified in the general election.
- FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret ‘National Security Letter,’ Loses.
- Harold vs. Markos. Not everyone wants a unified Dem ticket.
- META Keywords are Legally Dead.
- Be very afraid: Engineers find ‘missing link’ of electronics. Robots take next step toward world domination.
- A minute and a half with Shana Glickfield…is enough to spark any man’s dreams.
- Clone-tool war on nipples continues. Complete with tragic casualty figures.
– cpd
May 7th, 2008
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I hate to risk alienating my new BFF Mark Zuckerberg, but has Facebook’s moment in the sun as a hot political tool passed? And if so, what does that tell us about the future of social networking sites for online political organizing, and even about the future of Facebook itself?
We’ve now seen more than a year of intense use of social networking sites by the U.S. presidential campaigns (and even longer use by issue-advocacy groups), which gives us a solid base of information and experience to judge just how effective Facebook is as a political tool — both for organized political campaigns and advocacy groups and for individual political activists. The verdict? Facebook has not lived up to a lot of its initial political hype, and for reasons that are perfectly natural considering what kind of a site it is. The crux:
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May 4th, 2008
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- Adding Video to Turn Dead-End ‘Thank You’ Pages Into Viral Marketing Campaigns. The Obama campaign finds yet another sweet spot for online recruiting.
- The Post Is Having A Rough Day. Spam attack!
- Reluctantly, a Daily Stops Its Presses, Living Online.
- Rev. Wright Baits the Soundbiters.
- The Internet Goes Green. The growth of the envirosphere, via Micropersuasion.
- Space war would leave destructive legacy.
- McCain: It’s “clear who Hamas wants to be the next president.” Fruits of a blogger conference call.
- Google Earth Outreach Aides U.N. Track Refugees and Save Lives.
- Beyond Bittergate, Barack Yields Success to His Supporters.
- Obama’s Database Will Make Him the Power Broker. Another persistent political following! “Like Mussolini/ And Kennedy…”
- The chummy relationship of campaign professionals and journalists in Washington. Or, getting scolded for making fun of McCain on Facebook.
- Schism Grows Between Obama and Liberal Bloggers.
- Were Mesopotamians the first brand addicts?
- Subject Line, ‘From’ Address Crucial to Email Marketing.
- Who Stole the Plans for iRobot’s Battle Bots?
- YouTube vid inspires Obamacrombie t-shirts.
- Facebook as Weekly Evil.
- McCain on FriendFeed: “Considering the McCain campaign’s sometimes uneven online strategy, this is a step in the right direction.”
- Social Applications Dominate the Web.
- Gays, Lesbians More Receptive to Blog Ads than Heterosexuals.
- An overview of web mining in societal benefit areas.
- Top 10 Wireless Marketing Mistakes.
- 3 Top Tips to Improve Your Online Writing.
- Henry Copeland of Blogads: “As the social media winter looms, the winners will be the folks with strong relationships, low overheads, a strong commitment on innovation rather than coat-tail riding, and, most of all, a indelible passion for the business. We’re looking forward to seeing you after the bust.”
- Sorry Disney, But You’re Kind of a Skank Factory.
- DNC’s national cable ad buy. The RNC’s not so hot about it.
- Web Site Blames Sen. McConnell for Quorum-less FEC.
- The Twitter Disconnect. An introduction and how-to. Also, glimpse a hardcore Twitter-using life.
- Things Really Were Different Before Clinton-Obama. Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin…into the future.
- Which Government Agency Should Be Your Computer’s Firewall? HAL 9000 or black squirrels?
– cpd
April 28th, 2008
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As the Democratic primary process grinds on, the candidates’ supporters are using just about every electronic tool available to swing the race their way. Two cases in point from the Obama side: super.del.egates.us is a wiki-based contact list for voters to use to reach the precious unpledged delegates to the Democratic Convention, while Yrmomma4obama aims to help young voters (and those too young to vote themselves) to use text messages to persuade their friends and family to jump on the Obama bandwagon.
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April 27th, 2008
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- Trust in Peers Trumps the “A-List,” Study Finds. Definite implications for political marketing.
- Act Blue’s Record Take. They’re raking it in for candidates.
- Online Call Tools and the 2008 Campaign.
- Detroit Mayor Is Charged With Eight Felonies. Much to his surprise, text messages are stored somewhere. C.f., TXTmob Subpoena Shows the Hazards of Using Technology to Protest.
- French President Caught Monitoring Blogs: Mon Dieu!
- Voter Relationship Management: The Constituent Is the Customer. A look at the available tools, from the point of view of business CRM.
- With the Internet Comes a New Political ‘Clickocracy’. Jose Antonio Vargas’s new gig, writing think pieces (nice work if you can get it).
- In 2008 campaign, the Internet packs a powerful political punch. Frank Davies overview piece.
- Kenya: What a laptop and a video camera can do.
- Calling all women who tech and talk. Regular e.pol reader Jeanette Russell says, “Hey Ladies!”
- Local bandit eludes Indian police AND Google Earth. But he still can’t get his mom elected.
- Broad Concerns About Internet Voting. Guys are worried, too.
- “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has finally figured out how to raise funds on the Internet”. But still, a lot less than Obama.
- Chinese Authorities Place ‘Wanted’ Posters For Tibetan Rioters On Web Portals. Also, China Destroys Tibet’s Sacred Environment. When wrecking your own just isn’t enough.
- Over 1.3 Million Petition Signatures in 10 Days against Chinese actions in Tibet. China to petition-signers — um, yeah, we’ll get right on that.
- Magic Spy Smart Phone.
- Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets ‘Wikipedia’ Approach Will Transform Congress.
- McCain Girls Are Your New Jalopy. And more than a little hard on the ears.
- Raffle craze strikes innocent presidential candidates.
- Republican videos attack congressional democrats.
- The Press and Political New Media.
- Obama Utilizes Internet for Success.
- Cuba Lifts Restrictions On Personal Cellphones.
- Citizen Huff: How Arianna became the Matt Drudge of the Left.
- Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate.
- Blogger’s Rights, via Burt Edwards.
- Website changes political climate. Reaching the young online.
- The Message Box: the Zone to Stay on Message. Fun with diagrams.
- Color-Coded Threat Level System In New Colors for Spring!
- Clinton’s Wiki-Warrior.
- Air America Host Suspended for Clinton Remarks. YouTube strikes again.
- Clinton Floats Delegate (Online) Petition.
- Obama inspires an online art explosion. “The Web has become a rich canvas for artists and candidates who know how to connect digitally.”
- Micha Sifry gets the Download from Joe Trippi.
- Democratic Lawmaker Vouches for Bush Administration’s Secret Plan to End Cyber War. See also DDoS Packets are Two Percent of Net Traffic, Report Says.
- Ed Markey’s Subcommittee has hearing on Virtual Worlds. He really looks stunning in that WoW Orc outfit.
- Latest sign of the impending Apocalypse: New Kids on the Block are reuniting.
- Science Link of the Day: “There you have it: the world’s most sensitive eyes allow them to be simple! And smash things! And it’s worked for 400 million years.”
– cpd
April 3rd, 2008
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Potomac Primary special edition — special because for once, DC’s vote actually matters.
- Update: Over the Horizon: User-Centered Online Politics?
- Hillary’s Valentine Email to supporters. Tasty treat or sickly sweet? Also check out the viral email that’s helping her.
- Michelle Obama Robocalls DC Voters, as does DC mayor Adrian Fenty. C.f. Rep. Foxx pledges no more robocalls.
- Ron Paul Rallies Supporters via YouTube.
- Dueling Washington (State) GOP Web Sites. Huckabee die-hards launch online offensive.
- What, No Flowers? RNC Sends Valentine E-Cards. Mike Turk’s not in love.
- Moroccan Man Jailed For Fake Facebook Profile. It’s good to be the king, but don’t pretend to be his younger brother.
- How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free.
- Not every site needs to be a social network.
- Why Google keywords cost more but deliver less.
- A cellphone in every pocket.
- Putting Candidates Under the Videoscope.
- Predicting the return of predictive journalism.
- Georgia Perspective on the Evolution of Media and Politics. From an MTV voter turnout organizer.
- Catch-22: Communicating with Congress. Interesting — mass emails may actually be being heard.
- Nokia creates its own mobile advertising network.
- TSA Reads Blog Comments, Changes Policy.
- Google News Goes Local With Neighborhood Headlines.
- Super Tuesday’s Gadgets: Touch Screen Monitors, New Notebooks, and 3D Graphics Drive TV Coverage.
- A New Online Fundraising Record on the Horizon. C.f. Money, Money, Money.
- But do donations predict a state’s final vote?
- Despite Web success, Obama loses Silicon Valley.
- Wired’s Guide to Starting a Viral Political Campaign on YouTube.
- Start a Nonprofit and Join Election ‘08 YouTube Free-For-All. A new route for 527s and similar outside political groups.
- MoveOn delivers Obama $500,000, plus 500,000 messages to friends.
- Political Blogging Scholarship. Please don’t feed the animals.
- Video Games for Social Change.
- Matt Stoller Fails to Consolidate the Netroots. Food Fight!
- Presidential fundraising doubles in 2007.
- Lolcats meets Obama: Yes We Can Has (cheezburgers).
I does haz no understanding of why this is as funny as it is. Via tPrez.
– cpd
February 12th, 2008
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The Post’s Jose Antonio Vargas is reporting on the Obama campaign’s election-day SMS strategy, clearly aimed at boosting voter turnout:
Early this morning, Sen. Barack Obama sent the first of three text messages to supporters who’ve signed up to his messaging program and live in the D.C. area. It’s a jam-packed message, starting out with an Obama quote, then asking supporters to forward the text to their friends. Most importantly, the text provides an 866 number to call to find your polling location. All you’d have to do is click on the number on your cellphone to make the free call.
Jose has detail about the campaign’s ability to target messages by zip code, and also about how quiet they’re being about the size of their list and its response rate. Texting for turnout isn’t an original idea, but this campaign seems focused on implementing it well — a part of the campaign that future online political professionals will look to as a model?
– cpd
February 12th, 2008
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Mega pre-Super Tuesday edition. Are any Giants-sized upsets coming our way in the political world?
- Update: Concise, insightful Super Tuesday video slideshow overview from CQ, including some great photos and clever graphics. Via PoliticalWire.
- Update: Anti-Illegal Immigration Forces Rally Against McCain. Anti-McCain email goes out to 1.5 million people.
- Update: Drudge takes on both John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
- Update: The Super Tuesday Strategy Review. Using Google Maps to track the candidates and decypher their plans.
- Update: More news on the Obama surge from the Cafe Press primary: “After being nearly tied two weeks ago in weekly candidates sales (Obama at 28%, Hillary at 26%), now as of last week, Obama has surged to account for 48%, while Hillary is down to 19% of weekly candidate sales.” More here, and thanks to John Hlinko for the tip.
- Update: Why Google only tells you what you already know. Do online searchers look to reinforce or challenge their views?
- Update: Is Barack Obama “Dean on steroids”? (Via tPrez)
- Update: Tracking superdelegates via wiki. (Via tPrez)
- Campaigns Experimenting Online to See What Works. Excellent overview article from Jose Antonio Vargas.
- Senate candidates learn the pitfalls of online politics
- Super Bowl Super Tuesday Spots. Note Obama’s geo-targeting, prominent cell phone signup and site URL.
- Does money translate into votes?
- The Smart Mobbing of Super Tuesday
- Hillary Clinton’s Online/Offline Town Hall. She’ll take questions via email, text and video, with Bill and Chelsea (among others) hosting satellite town halls around the country.
- The New Rules of Politics. Karl Rove weighs in.
- MTV/MySpace Postmortem: Change vs. Experience vs. Ron Paul.
- US campaigns go networking on the net.
- Bush asks for $6 billion to fight the terrorists online
- Huckabee Endorses Fire-And-Brimstone YouTube Competitor ‘GodTube’
- Another Ethical Scandal Plagues Novick Campaign. A vicious Wikipedia defacing.
- Obama’s $32 Million Haul. More here and here.
- Republican Presidential Candidates Unleash YouTube Ad War. C.f. Romney’s Latest Ad; McCain’s on the Web.
- Republicans make Fox News sick. “To recap New Hampshire for Fox News: Hannity was pursued by a Republican mob, O’Reilly got into a shoving match with an Obama aide, and CNN grabbed more viewers. Now that’s a week to remember!”
- The Day After. The end of the Edwards campaign, through the eyes of his blogger outreach staffer.
- Move Over YouTube, Here Comes YouBama. “An Obama video becomes an automatic hit on YouTube when it’s uploaded.”
- Genuinely inspired, the Facebook generation is turning out to vote in record numbers. Will they make a difference?
- Moveon Endorses Obama.
- On-The-Ground Organizing. The ‘net can’t do everything.
- Track the ‘08 Money Chase
- San Francisco Mayor, A Clinton Backer, Says They’re Going To Go After MoveOn Members
- 3D Electoral College
- Political Attack Ads Easy to Find Online. Getting nasty in North Carolina.
- Check Out Politics Schmolitics. Political humor from Daily Motion.
- Online Boors Ill-Equipped To Assess Political Hotties
- Chicago Tribune suspends comments on political section of website. “But some comment boards seem to attract and enable the vitriolic and brutish; they represent the very worst form of online communication.”
- Democrats Flood States With Ads as Tuesday Nears
- MTV’s Choose Or Lose Taps Local Reporters To Cover Presidential Election. Via tPrez.
- Steve Garfield’s Super Tuesday Coverage Plans With The UpTake. More technology than I can take.
- Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo, and Microsoft fights back.
- Why did the Fred Thompson Blog Work?
- Library of Congress on Flickr
- How to Herd Organic Search Traffic to Your Blog.
- FTC Commissioner Explores Facebook, Makes Friends.
- White House Under Seige? Don’t piss off Google.
- Australia wild party child turns party pro. My teenaged near-namesake uses MySpace to promote a party, 500 “friends” show up and do $20,000 worth of damage. Delanys everywhere are extremely proud. Via my friend Doug McCammon.
– cpd
February 4th, 2008
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Over the past few months, we’ve gotten tantalizing hints of the level of integration of online and offline organizing that the Obama campaign has achieved. For instance, of the $32 million that his campaign raised last month, $28 million came in online, and though the vast majority of donations were small, this also tells us that the Obama people must have pushed almost ALL of their fundraising online, even for the people who would normally send a large check.
But politics is about mobilizing people, not just about raising money, and a few weeks ago we got this vignette:
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February 3rd, 2008
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Interesting findings from a new study of the use of text messaging to send day-before-election reminders to vote — 5% ain’t bad, and it sure was cheap ($1.56 per vote vs.$20-$70 for other methods). Conducted by the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project, Working Assets and researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton, the study looked at the effects of SMS GOTV reminders in the 2006 general election on a group of 4000 people selected at random from a pool of over 8000 new voters. Researchers checked polling records to see how many texters had voted and compared that with the control population. According to the actual paper, the 5% difference was statistically significant, and follow-up questioning of participants showed that positive responses far outweighed any backlash.
A couple of observations — as people sign up for more text notifications, they may not be as effective as in this example, and obviously we’ll want to see follow-up work on different populations. Still, it’s good to see some initial confirmation of the idea that text messaging is useful for building last-minute turnout. Note that campaigns and state parties may want to coordinate their text outreach, since people may recoil from receiving more than one go-vote-dammit message on their cell phones (a barrage of ten of them would suck). Let’s be careful not to poison the well before we’re finished drankin’ from it. Thanks to Mike Connery at Future Majority for the initial tip.
– cpd
September 13th, 2007
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In honor of his announcement last night, I just checked out Fred Thompson’s official site, and I gotta say, very slick Flash interface, guys. A few bugs here and there, though — when I clicked on some of the stories on the main panel at the top of the front page, I got error messages (better check that Action Script). Here are some general observations:
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September 6th, 2007
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A fascinating story on yesterday’s edition of NPR’s The World focused on the rise of international video-sharing sites, and in particular on their political effects in Asia. In China, where the existence of a half-dozen video sites makes it difficult to police political content, people are uploading statements and using video to publicize political issues, including local ones. In Singapore, where political content is banned entirely on local television (I wonder how they handle satellite…), citizens are coming to depend on web video for basic content such as coverage of rallies and speeches. In both cases, the anonymity of uploading is key, since it helps to protect activists from retaliation.
Combine this story with recent coverage of the role of cell phones in organizing protests in Vietnam, China and The Philipines (terrific detail in that last one, btw), and we can see the new tools of political advocacy taking root where they might just do some good. Viva La Revolucion!
– cpd
September 6th, 2007
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- Inside the lobbying industry’s evolution. From hunter-gatherer to information-age filter/aggregator — a fascinating framework for analysis.
- Ron Paul: All the Rage in Paris. Liberté-rians?
- The Danger of Using YouTube Views as a Metric. It’s gonna bloooooooow!
- Election 2008: The Internet Campaign. Excellent overview article from CIO Insight.
- Television: More useful (and comprehensive) than Internet? Blasphemers.
- A Campaign Undeclared, Not Invisible. Lots of coverage for this Fred Thompson piece. The DNC pounces.
- Candidates Seek Key(words) to Search Success. Eric Frenchman searches for flaws in the story, finds himself richly rewarded.
- They’ve Just Got to Get a Message to You. Reaching music fans through their cell phones.
- Hyperlocal Advertising Relies on Geolocation. Article title relies on existence of hypernerds to understand what the hell it’s talking about.
- Cabinet, Congressional And Campaign Blogging.
- 34 More Ways to Build Your Own Social Network. May I suggest going to the occasional party?
- Hissing and booing our way to a more democratic country. Applying the ‘net ethos to meatspace.
- Take 12 Minutes to Learn How to Grow Your Nonprofit’s Email List. While you’re at it, why not spiff up that email newsletter a bit?
- CIA, Vatican, DCCC, Fox News, New York Times All Just Fucking Around On Wikipedia. Dirty tricks are trackable!
- Repubs Losing Online. David All vows vengeance.
- Message to Candidates: Update Your Facebook Status. Post some racier pictures while you’re at it (wait, maybe not).
- One Hit Too Many: Could alien life exist in the form of DNA-shaped dust? If so, parts of my apartment may soon be a wildlife preserve.
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August 15th, 2007
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August 2nd, 2007
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