In which our late-summer languor smacks right into reality.
- Social media has given black people in Ferguson what the police cannot. C.f. The Night Social Media Exploded Over Ferguson and Watch: The Night Social Media Lit Up as Violence Flared in Ferguson. Meanwhile, Responding to Ferguson, Activists Organize #NMOS14 Vigils Across America In Just 4 Days.
- How social media freed reporters Wesley Lowery and Ryan Reilly from Ferguson police. In response, Joe Scarborough, Mike Allen Form Journalistic Axis of Evil.
- Minnesota GOP official’s tweet about Robin Williams death stirs social media fight. C.f. Twitter vows to “improve our policies” after Robin Williams’ daughter is bullied off the network.
- Democratic Digital Advantage? Not in Terms of Spending: McConnell vs. Grimes edition, via Steve Olson.
- NRCC Launches Fake News Sites to Attack Democratic Candidates. Fake news worked for Fox, so why not the Republican Party?
- GOP Firm Counts on Big Data for Down-Ballot Races. Targeted Victory’s new product tries to scale data operations for smaller campaigns.
- Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wi-Fi, because It’s official: Russia’s FSB will keep an eye on social media.
- Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Works So Well. Hatahs gotta hate, though: We Need To Do Better Than the Ice Bucket Challenge, Take the “No Ice Bucket” Challenge and #IceBucketChallenge: Why You’re Not Really Helping. Damn!
- Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet, via Luis Hestres.
- What Advocates Can Learn from Mother Jones’ Online Growth.
- How Tech-Savvy Podemos Became One of Spain’s Most Popular Parties in 100 Days.
- Form Letters Are Still Relevant When Communicating with Congress.
- Hey, Designers: Stop Trying To Be So Damned Clever, via Allyson Goldsmith.
- How to Win the Facebook Engagement Game, and Two simple questions to ask to improve your engagement on Facebook.
- How To Build an Email List Through Social Media. C.f. this Epolitics.com article by Laura Packard.
- Bloggers: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them. Putin might like to add, “or kill ’em.”
- Inception Advocacy: Tweets Within Tweets. Meta, dude.
- The Convergence of SEO and Social Media.
- 3 Tips for the Ultimate Donation Experience. Happy endings for all?
- The 15 Most Incredible Facts About the Smartphone Revolution. YMMV.
- These 10 seconds show just how big of a problem drought has become in California. Good example of visual storytelling.
- Choosing the Most Effective Social Media Platform for Your Business [INFOGRAPHIC].
- How the Open Source Election Technology Foundation is Remaking the Voter Experience.
- Jeff Atwater dials up social media on campaign trail. A glimpse at online campaigning in Flo-ri-da.
- The creator of Godwin’s Law on the inevitability of online Nazi analogies and the ‘right to be forgotten’.
- I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me. Liked, but not well liked.
- Are Corn Flakes Republican? This App Will Tell You.
- And finally, Ohio strippers take topless protest to church that harassed them as ‘whores, tramps’ for nine years. THAT’S advocacy, kids.
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– cpd