If you are an Iranian in Tehran, you might have received a text message recently similar to this one: “Dear citizen, you have been tricked by the foreign media and you are working on their behalf,” the message read. “If you do this...
If you’re in DC or headed this way in the next days, be sure to check out Digital Capital Week, a celebration of onine technology and culture that kicks off today. I’m planning to hit as many of the events as I can, beginning with...
Social media consultants, start your engines — and head on over to Idealware.org. Laura Quinn and company are working on a new guide to social media for nonprofits, which includes an opportunity for consultants (like me and many of you) to...
One less-public side of the online politics world involves the blizzard of emails and texts that fly between political communications staff and reporters just about every day. The communicators’ goal: to influence reporting and shift the...
Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident Minor scuffle in the online communications world: BP has purchased Google Ads on search terms related to the Gulf oil spill (for example: “oil spill”), with its ads showing up at...
Well, in a sense — fundraising via SMS is still difficult, despite its success around the Haiti earthquake earlier this year, but a piece of techology called Square (developed by one of the founders of Twitter) physically plugs into a cell...
If you dug Josh Koster and Tyler Davis’s earlier Ten Commandments of Campaign Social Media, be sure to check their latest article below, also excerpted from the (free to download) Digital Political Campaigns 101. Online Advertising Early in an...
Also published on The Huffington Post On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here’s more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the...
Whew, just got to a sweltering NYC for PDF — man, they know them some humidity here, and I was still in a suit from a meeting in DC this morning. Am now at the hotel, in the process of slipping into something a little more comfortable…...
One more bit of YouTube today, though this one’s audio-only rather than video: a rewrite of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” but this time with lyrics about the BP oil spill. Okay, the results might not be quite as funny as one...