- E=mc2? Not on Conservapedia.
- How to raise funds for your nonprofit using social media. Note extensive E.pol quotes.
- New list of politicians’ social media channels.
- Social networking sites gain clout in campaigns, with politicians using social media to fight for votes.
- More from Campaign 2010: Campaigns do battle on the Internet: Campaign managers for Reid and Angle exchange barbs via Twitter, as Quayle, Gorman lead YouTube chase in congressional race, Walker Staffer’s Tweet Causes Political Controversy, and 10th Congressional candidate urging supporters to post comments online (getting them to flood the comments section of a news story).
- Political attacks thrive online, as Protected by online anonymity, hate speech becomes an online mainstay. Thank you for noticing.
- In Congress or on Digg, Politics Is Politics.
- John McCain, Twitter genius. Note that the measure is volume, not quality or effectiveness, and c.f. How You Test a Senator’s Online Social Smarts.
- Whither the tweeting politicians. Charlie Rangel weighs in: Empowerment via the new media.
- North Korea makes Twitter debut.
- Hosni Mubarak calls on Egyptians to vote, son’s campaign impeded by Facebook fiasco. Plus “Dilmaboy” and Twitter: Brazil election goes online.
- Iran’s Robotic ‘Ambassador of Death’ is More Envoy of Annoyance.
- Online Petitions are a Sham. Let’s get a second opinion: A “Sham” or Democracy at Work?
- Blogger says Ground Zero Mosque’s twitter consultant made sexually inappropriate comments. C.f. The education of ‘Mosque’-tweeter Oz Sultan and The Voices of @Park51.
- Did Sarah Palin really Tweet that? Yep.
- Daily Kos launches new email program, including a pop-up signup form when you go to the site.
- ActBlue releases new “Donate” tab for candidates’ Facebook pages.
- There Are Now 8.5 Million .ORG Domains, And Growth Is Accelerating.
- Combat Malaria With Nothing But Nets and Facebook Credits.
- RNC Re-Assigning New Media Staff For 2010 Election and RNC Shifts New Media to Field. But is it a big deal?
- Furor Over Israeli Soldier’s Facebook Photos. C.f. Israeli Soldier Defends Her ‘Sexy’ Facebook Prisoner Pics
- NYC’s Advocate Tracks Corporate Political Spending. Also, the NY Senate has released an iPad App.
- Worldwide Advertising On Social Networks Estimated To Hit $3.3 Billion In 2010, 40% going to Facebook. Meanwhile, comScore: Facebook Now The Third Largest Video Site In The U.S. and Hulu Serving 3x as Many Video Ads as YouTube.
- Dems Experiment with Using Tweet Button to Build Base.
- 10 Types of Nonprofits That Absolutely Must Add Themselves to Foursquare.
- Top Five Ways To Use Facebook Places Effectively.
- Facebook Places: Where Are People Checking In?, and This Week in Social Media: Facebook Places Edition.
- Ten Ways to Engage Your Supporters.
- Hunting “Propaganda,” GOP Watchdog Sets Sights on Obama’s New Media. C.f. Dept. of propaganda.
- CauseOn, Like Groupon But Partially For Charity.
- Total Cost For France.fr: 4 Million Euros.
- Top 5 Mobile Advertising Trends To Watch, as Location-Based Text Message Ads Get a Major Boon.
- Wired Declares The Web Is Dead…Don’t Pull Out The Coffin Just Yet.
- Charity:Water’s Site Raised $3 Million Last Year.
- Pew Study Claims One Fifth Of American Adults Don’t Use The Internet.
- How Contests Can Create Long-Term Engagement with Users on Facebook.
- What An Australian Facebook Election Would Look Like.
- Why to integrate Twitter’s new “Tweet” button into your website, and You Like? Facebook Makes Updates To Its “Like” Button.
- 5 Useful Facebook Trend and Search Services.
- 5 Key Benefits of Monitoring Your Client’s Brand on Social Media, as you Track Social Media Campaigns from Inside Microsoft Excel.
- A domestic violence PSA done right.
- Colorado GOP Race Prompts Facebook Attack Page. Missed this one when it came out.
- Political scientists on the Obama era, part 1 of many.
- How Polling Places Can Affect Your Vote.
- The Emergence of Long-Form Web Video.
- RGA Makes Plans for Video Paywall. But, Campaign Videos: Will Anyone Pay to See Them?
- The New Right-Wing Smear Machine. From 2008, a detailed look at the mechanics of the conservative email-forwarding network.
- Soldiers Try To Trade Tech Support For Afghan Intel.
- Is the Internet a ‘weapon of the strong’?
- Demographics of text messaging, with charts. C.f. How Mobile is Affecting the Way We E-mail.
- Going Viral Takes a Posse, Not an Army.
- And finally: In porn, a story of Iraq’s politics.
– cpd