[Man, these got out of hand! But now that the extensive queue is empty, let’s start running Quick Hits weekly. Look for them on Fridays from here on out…as always, Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise.] The Militant Group...
Remember those creative advocacy campaigns we talked about last week? A couple of them illustrated a dirty little secret to Facebook success: if you want to get your content widely shared, and you have an email list, send out a message asking people...
The Hill reported this morning on a fascinating development in the internal Republican war over the strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to “defund” Obamacare: Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio...
A small milestone slipped by unnoticed a week or two back: the seven-year anniversary of the launch of Epolitics.com. Wow! In that long-ago summer of 2006, George W. Bush was President, the Republicans controlled Congress, YouTube was a year old...
Quick Hits returns, well rested and ready to rock. Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page Slam ‘Outrageous’ PRISM Reports, C’mon folks — THEY get to use our data for their own purposes. White House, House GOP trade three-word barbs over...
Good stuff dropped into the e.politics bunker today — a new nonprofit online video benchmarks report, put together by the folks at See3, YouTube and Edelman. I just pulled down my own PDF copy of “Into Focus: Benchmarks for Nonprofit...
Howdy folks, whew! That Armenia trip threw me for a loop for a few days: it was a fantastic experience, but I think I caught both ends of the jet lag on the flip side (my poor aging brain was addled for days, the body longer). All is well now, and...
Inspired by an amusing autocorrect moment on a listserv last week (“hashtags” converted to “hostages,” in the context of a discussion of online activism around marriage equality and the Supreme Court) it’s a serious...
Since I started spreading the word a few weeks back that I was launching a digital strategy business, plenty of people have come to me with a single question: just what IS digital strategy? A simple question, for sure, but one with an answer...
Guest article! Let’s take a trip to the Big House with our friends from PowerThru Consulting, who’ve been kind enough to contribute several previous articles on email advocacy and list-building in the past. If you’re in email jail...