Trying to do these a little more often…
- The GOP Rises Online, as New media help conservatives get their anti-Obama message out. They’re not alone: U.K. Conservatives Embrace Digital to Revamp Image.
- SOTU report: War Rooms Set Up for Speech, Using Web Tools, The SOTU Social Media Tug of War and Joe Wilson Responds to Obama, This Time on Facebook.
- Obama’s YouTube question and answer session, plus the results (nice suit, Steve!). And Still Yet More Questions for Obama: OFA Texts.
- Data Shows That Self-Reference Does Not Get Followers. But, social behavior does.
- Reading (Rifle) Magazines and what they might tell us about the Taliban.
- Slug Bug! Volkswagen Gets Punchy on Facebook for Super Bowl. C.f. Target’s Facebook Campaign Combines the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day.
- Right Rallies Behind ACORN ‘Pimp’.
- Scott Brown’s Online Fundraising Machine: Inside the Numbers. C.f. Inside the Scott Brown Cash Machine.
- Texas Tea Party Gubernatorial Candidate Plans Moneybomb, as the Republican National Committee Sends Out Fake Census Letter to Raise Money (opponents spread word via Twitter).
- The Technology Behind Texting For Aid, Four ways to send a text and Mobile Payment Processing on the iPhone. But Can Candidates Accept Text Contributions? (via Political Activity Law).
- From Google’s Issues and Advocacy Team: The Digital Playbook: Top 5 strategies for political campaigns. Plus, Google’s Poised For Politics (Note quotes from friends-of-e.politics Karen Jagoda and Josh Koster).
- Two cheers for objective journalism, in the face of online advocacy.
- YouTube as Video Store: how the site’s modest new movie rental service could radically change the way Hollywood does business.
- Raise High the P.R. Blitz.
- Smartphones + Social Media Earn Public “Citizen Responder” Role.
- Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake.
- Facebook Gets Deeper into Real-Times News with “News” List Push, via SocialMedia411.
- Grammy Ratings Surge; Did Social Media Play a Role?
- Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members, though apparently they still prefer MySpace. “Web 2.0 makes monitoring criminal activity easier for law enforcement officials.”
- Pelosi, Boehner Want Probe Of House Web Site Hackers.
- 250,000 White House Staffers, Visitors Affected by National Archives Data Breach.
- How Web Video SEO is Finally Coming of Age, YouTube now has auto captioning.
- The Most Oopsy-Prone Elements Of Email Marketing.
- Nonprofit Marketing Crisis: Survey Shows Messaging Fails to Connect With Key Audiences. C.f. Why Can’t All Cause Marketing Be This Amazing? Via Lorelei Harloe.
- Why Wikipedia has Accurate Health Information.
- Wikileaks Closes Operations Temporarily Due to Budget Woes.
- Lessons Learned from Twitter Campaigns on Twitcause.
- Website Tools to Analyze Social Sharing Activities.
- Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement.
- Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks Study.
- Candidate crashes Wisconsin campaign reporting site.
- Facebook COO: 175 Million People Log Into Facebook Every Day.
- Carole Crist, “The TWITTER,” and The Real Housewives of NYC.
- WordPress for Political Campaign Candidate Websites.
- Behind the Scenes on the NYC Dirty Oil Map, On the Usability of EDF’s Dirty Heating Oil Map.
- Who[m] to follow on twitter to get started on Gov2.0.
- The Congressperson from Craigslist?
- Bringing Local Government Into the 21st Century.
- [Not-So-Flattering] Inside Look at Obama’s Organizing for America, Part I.
- Outdoor: The only ad platform that survives social media.
- And finally: Argentina Prez Pushes ‘Sexy’ Pork.
– cpd