Nancy Schwartz at Getting Attention writes in to pitch a survey that you might be interested in helping her with: I’m starting off the year by surveying nonprofit communicators on key goals and challenges. Here are a few of the questions:...
Hot on the heels of naming “you” as the Person of the Year, Time Magazine has unveiled a new site architecture and layout that focuses more on blogs and content aggregation than before. For instance, a new politics blog called Swampland...
Schlock and Awe: What Saddam Hussein’s Execution Video Means. From ReelPopBlog: “Absent politics, the video is brutal. With politics, the video is brutally strategic.” Five Prerequisites for Blogging Success. From ProBlogger —...
Hmmmmm, I’ve been a little slower to recover from the long weekend than expected and am behind on writing (nurse, get me a bourbon I.V., stat!), so today’s article will be a super-duper number-one happy fun time Quick Hits catch-up...
Hey guys, the folks over at Squidoo asked me to take a look at using their site, so I just finished creating a “lens” page for online political advocacy. What is Squidoo? A site that simultaneously tries to sort through the mass of...
Online campaigners unite! You have nothing to lose but oh, about 30 seconds of your time. A group of folks in the field, inspired by a discussion at RootsCampDC, has put together a brief manifesto about how nice it would be if our advocacy...
At least, according to this little online quiz. Should I be concerned that Catwoman is the third-closest match for my personality, behind Spidey and the Green Lantern and a full step ahead of Iron Man? And me a Sabbath fan since I was 16. Happy New...
Brian Braiker in Newsweek is suggesting that 2007 may be the Year of the Widget, a time in which web users start to customize their online experience to an unprecedented extent. Some marketing folks, most notably Steve Rubel (who gets a nice shout...
On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom...
Writing in Personal Democracy Forum last week, Jerome Armstrong discussed a number of lessons he learned from leading the online arm of Mark Warner’s (once and possibly future?) presidential campaign operation. He raised several good points...