- URGENT: Democratic emails a fundraising bonanza. C.f. The scourge of small-money politics: is online fundraising actually a corrosive force? But tell me how could it be worse for our politics than this: GOP Kicks Off New Big Money Effort.
- Why the GOP Wants You to Sign a Petition Supporting Uber. “With Uber Push, Republicans Aim to Attract Urban Millennials and Support Illinois Candidate.”
- Seeing More Politics in Your News Feed? Facebook Boosts Partisan Sites.
- Native American Groups Ask Twitter, Facebook, and Google to Remove Washington NFL Accounts. Meanwhile, Who’s Behind the New Washington Football Team Website? What the source code (and the Drupal configuration) give away about a “grassroots” site.
- Congress passes bill to make unlocking cellphones legal, shining new sunlight on White House e-petitions. Plus, Cell Phone Bill Tests Value of ‘We the People’ E-petitions, and Lessons about Digital Government from the Cell Phone Unlocking Victory.
- ISIS terrorists turn to social media crowdsourcing to target Saudi intel officials. Ugh.
- Cuomo’s Office Denies Using Private Email Accounts. But it Does.
- U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita responds to social media flap over Ebola comments.
- Strategic Rapid Response Is Not an Oxymoron, by our own Beth Becker.
- Twitter Won’t Stop Harassment on Its Platform, So Its Users Are Stepping In.
- An unlikely survivor in the digital age: Direct mail.
- Facebook Ads Become ‘Costlier’ Choice for Small Businesses: Rising Rates Put Pressure on Limited Ad Budgets; Facebook Points to More Valuable Outcomes.
- Email Marketing Benchmarks: Highest Open Rate in Years – Again! But All Is Not Rosy….
- Are You being Smart With Online Fundraising?
- Effective Online Onboarding Strategies.
- Leveraging Your Facebook Audience: How to grow your email list from your Facebook followers.
- Cool Tool Update – Optimizely and A/B testing.
- Millennials: Untapped Advocacy Activists. If only it weren’t for all the sexting and the dope….
- Dear Progressives, We’re Not Doing It Right. A Netroots critique.
- Netizen Report: Russia Actually Expects Some Bloggers to Hand Over Their Passwords.
- German and Dutch Greens Sleepless on the World Wide Web.
- Google Street View Cars Measure Methane Gas Leaks.
- Anb finally, Kanye West Is Totally Right to Worry About Paparazzi Drones. It’s all fun and games until a drone crashes your party…literally.
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– cpd