First Quick Hits of 2014! Now that a long queue is cleared, these roundups will move to Fridays again.
- ElectionMall’s Ravi Singh is Probably Going to Jail.
- An online petition and a Twitter campaign break up a beautiful friendship between Disney and the energy industry. Plus, “Grassroots-led Campaigns” Transforming the Landscape of Social Change and A Green-Movement Website Shakes Up The Debate Over GMOs.
- The Gut: Running GOP campaigns since 1854 Data-driven approaches may not be sinking in.
- If a tweet worked once, send it again — and other lessons from The New York Times’ social media desk . C.f. Social Media Lessons From History’s Great Writers.
- Twitter Can Now Target Ads Based On Email Addresses And User IDs.
- 6 Mobile Marketing Trends to Leverage in 2014, and Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Must Prioritize the Mobile Web in 2014.
- Online Communications Strategy Is Different in an Off-Year.
- Why Medicaid expansion matters: . “…as the Dem candidates in difficult races distance themselves to varying degrees from Obamacare, liberals can move separately to mobilize the base around the Medicaid expansion. You will be seeing more of that.” Much of that mobilization will happen online. C.f. Dems launch ads attacking GOP on O-Care.
- The White House Is Finally Doing Some Firing Over Healthcare.gov. C.f. Spanish version of Healthcare.gov apparently used computer translation?
- How the Indian rail website accidentally stops bribery.
- For the First Time, Hackers Have Used a Refrigerator to Attack Businesses. C.f. Every Scary, Weird Thing We Know the NSA Can Do.
- Can Facebook Predict Who Wins the Senate in 2014?
- Netizen Report: Russia Arms Itself to Block Web Content Ahead of Sochi Games.
- Sigh. Pennsylvania’s Corbett Uses Canadian Farmers on Campaign Website.
- Chris Christie scandals show Private Emails Used Once Again for Government Business.
- Court: Bloggers Have Same First Amendment Protections as Traditional Journalists.
- Dotcom’s Internet Party – can it succeed?
- Ominous Texts Rattle Protesters in Ukraine. And, the Revolution in Ukraine Has Been Live Streamed For Two Months. When Will the West Start to Care?
- Hadrian’s Firewall: UK’s New Internet Filter or Censor?
- How Citizens United changed politics, in 6 charts. C.f. Koch-backed political coalition, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012 and A National Strategy Funds State Political Monopolies.
- Chamber of Commerce Figures It Can Have the Congress It Wants for Just $50 Million.
- People to Watch in 2014 in Philanthropy, and 5 Nonprofit Technology Trends to Watch in 2014.
- What Nonprofits Should Start Doing in 2014: Advice From the Experts. Plus, New Year’s resolutions for every campaign
- Who Predicted 2013 Best: Mashable, Hubspot or E-Consultancy?.
- Social Media Stats You Need To Know.
- We Heart Social Data: But What Do We Do With It?
- Year End Analysis: How to Plan Your Content Based on Data.
- How Pornhub Milks Its Own Traffic Data.
- The Walking Dead Infographic Teaches Marketers How to Survive.
- Is Facebook Becoming the USA Today of the 21st Century? But, The Major Problem With Facebook’s News Feed. Meanwhile, Facebook Wants “High Quality Content.” Guess Who Gets to Figure Out What “High Quality Content” Is?
- How Facebook’s New Algorithm Impacts Your Social Strategy.
- Facebook Sued for “Reading†Your Private Messages.
- Yahoo’s sleek News Digest app swims against the stream. Summly is reborn as a digital homage to the newspaper
- Google+ Second Most Used Social Network World Wide in Q3 2013 [Infographic].
- Twitter Bashing Bores. The whole article is a great rebuttal to brain-dead Twitter-hating, but I also loved this part: “And we can always fall back on the unchanging truths, like these lines from Walter Benjamin I stumbled on the other day: ‘Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.'”
- Will Snapchat Ever Be Valuable to Communications Pros?.
- Number Of Video Ads Viewed Nearly Doubles YOY.
- Chinese Communist Party Takes a Stab at Making Viral Online Videos.
- A brief look at Online Organizing Platforms.
- 14 Twitter Best Practices That Show the Real You.
- Five Outstanding Low-Budget Websites, and 5 Web Design Trends To Watch Right Now.
- Six Big Mistakes Non-Profit Organizations Are Making on Instagram .
- Preparing For The Link Apocalypse That May Or May Not Be Coming.
- 40 More Maps that Explain the World. Awesome.
- What your beer says about your politics, in one chart.
- Your Scene Sucks: Know Your Stereotype Styles [35 Images].
- 10 classic Sesame Street moments we wouldn’t show today’s kids.
- And finally, today’s sign of the impending Apocalypse: Burrito vending machines.
– cpd