The latest Technology Bytes column is now online at the Campaigns & Elections site, and it’s chock-full of digital strategy goodness. The main topics this edition: Twitter’s new advertising options and their political application...
Update: See Seth Oldmixon’s response to this development, CampaignGrid’s Patent Sets Dangerous Precedent. Big news in the online political advertising world: The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Patent No. 8,763,033 to...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. A great way to see what advocacy content is working for a range of organizations and issues. Of note...
Howdy folks, I’ve been running a little behind on these, but a July 4th hiatus gives us a chance to catch up. So, be sure to check out the latest episode of Digital Politics Radio, hosted by Karen Jagoda. Topics this time: Mike Madrid...
It’s Independence Day in the U.S., a perfect time to think about, well, independence. In this incarnation of my professional life, I’ve been out on my own for just over a year now, building a digital advocacy consulting practice which is...
A few days back, A Loyal Reader sent over a story that should have gotten more attention than it did. It turns out that Thad Cochran didn’t just make good strategic decisions, like courting Democratic voters in a Republican primary; his...
Ad Age published a fascinating set of survey results yesterday, and here’s a number that should jump out at political/advocacy communicators: more than a third of corporate Chief Marketing Officers expected to spend 75% of their budgets on...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. A great way to see what advocacy content is working for a range of organizations and issues. Of note...
Sohini Baliga posed an excellent question in a social media session at Nonprofit 2.0: how hard would it be for you if Facebook went away tomorrow? In that context, “you” meant “your nonprofit,” but we can extend the question...
Update: a comment from past Epolitics.com contributor Derek Pangallo on Facebook did remind me that people who do a lot of back-and-forth conversation on Twitter will have a different pattern than someone who just posts links to content. That will...