Howdy folks, I’m back from SXSW and none the worse for wear, despite the best efforts of man, beast and beer. One story that almost slipped through the cracks while I was gallivanting about: ABCNews’s Amy Bingham picked up on the Super...
Patient: Reported on SXSW Music Festival Day 3 (of 4), overall SXSW Festival Day 8 Diagnosis: SXSW Syndrome Symptoms: Subject displays a wide array of SXSW-related symptoms. They include: perpetual squint, even with sunglasses on. Jeans worn three...
New guest author! Michael Khoo is Vice-President for Communications at Population Action International and an old friend — he happens to live a couple of floors about the e.politics bunker (sorry about the noise, dude). Check out his take on...
Continuing our recent run of a real wealth of guest articles, here comes another contribution from our old friend Beth Becker, who reminds us that in social media campaigning, we should to begin at the very beginning, which is a very good place to...
Today’s South By Southwest Interactive discussion on the Occupy movement as citizen journalism should be fascinating: I’m looking forward to a terrific discussion with Priscilla Grim, Kira Annika, Charles Wyble and Boyd Carter. Check out...
Guest article! In the piece below, Abigail Collazo (editor of @Fem2pt0 and a progressive communicator, feminist organizer and Democratic strategist, currently at Turner Strategies) looks at a viral phenomenon that made the NY Times today. This piece...
I’ve heard from three different people today that they’ve suddenly ended up on Rick Santorum’s email list — WITHOUT signing up or opting in. In one case, the address (and the name associated with it) were only used to sign up...
Guest article! Steve Kleine is a Principal with Ensomo, a social media marketing, monitoring and analysis firm. You can reach Steve directly at steve@ensomo.com, and also check out his earlier article on social media monitoring for campaigns. Major...
ProPublica has tried to reverse-engineer an Obama fundraising email, different versions of which went to a husband and wife: Sinker and his wife weren’t the only ones to receive similar but subtly different emails from the Obama campaign...
From our friends at FlackCheck.org, a new organization spun off from FactCheck.org that looks at political advertising: Not bad at all! Musical numbers ain’t easy, and illustrating the ad trends this way is a lot more compelling than some dry...