In which we lead with a story about Ebola, as is currently required by the state of media hysteria. How to Advocate on Ebola: National Nurses United. GOP Races To Catch Obama 2012 Campaign Data Techniques, a good look at data-driven TV buying. C.f...
A few weeks back, I was fortunate enough to get to bring joy to many of my friends’ lives, if just for a brief moment. How? By posting a story to Facebook that included a preview image…which got cropped in an unintentionally hilarious...
We’ve talked repeatedly in these pages about the Democratic advantages when it comes to the actual mechanics of running political campaigns this cycle: they’re running more ads, building a strong voter contact program and raising more...
Interesting development on the Right: big donors seem to be encouraging Republican Independent Expenditure groups to move out of a TV-only organizing model. Shades of a grassroots superPAC, a la Ready for Hillary? Part of their motivation is...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. A great way to see content that’s working for a variety of different advocacy campaigns. A...
A day late, but still ready to rumble. Why political fundraising emails represent everything that’s wrong with our politics. C.f. DCCC, I’m pleading with you and the recent Epolitics.com piece by Dave Leichtman and Brett Schenker. How...
A nice distinction came up in a conversation earlier this week: writing good headlines and subject lines is a creative art, but picking the right ones to use is pure science. Good headlines walk a tricky path in the digital world: they have to feed...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 700 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: lots of love for Germany’s new college funding plan, several new voices on...
Mark Ryland of Amazon Web Services made a fun observation at a Tech@State presentation this afternoon: if you add the word “cloud” to any technology marketing effort, it becomes much significantly cooler. Cloudwashing! I love it–...
Quick Hits returns! Update: In Defense of Political Email. Democratic House Candidates Are Walloping Republicans in the Small-Money Game. How campaigns are losing the mobile war. Mobile site fail, large-scale. Twitter users mock Colorado school...