Election season has come to the tree-shaded (and recently snow-shrouded) streets of the District of Columbia, and with it a flurry of Facebook Ads. Just a few years ago it was noteworthy for a local-level political campaign to experiment with...
Online politics is a young field — at 45, I’m often the oldest guy in the room, particularly when the grassroots organizers are running amok. So it’s a shock when we lose one of our own…we simply haven’t had to deal...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: a singing nun rocks Alicia Keyes. 1. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (906.5x)...
We’ve talked several times in these pages about Facebook’s continuing evolution into a pay-to-play medium for brands, nonprofits and other Page owners, and the trend seems clear. The straight dope? It looks like you’d better budget...
Hi folks, I’m now officially a Contributing Editor to Karen Jagoda’s long-running Digital Politics Radio, meaning that I’ll be on the show at least monthly moving forward. So get yourself some good headphones and crank up the hifi...
Beware the Borg… The topic of Google Glass and other wearable tech was hot at South by Southwest Interactive this year…not that I saw more than one or two people actually USING Google’s information-displaying, photo-taking...
Posted from the airport in Austin, on the way back from SXSW: check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: my dad’s old...
Hi folks, I’ve been at the SXSW Interactive Festival/Conference since Friday — hell of a time. I’ve been going to plenty of great panels (plus a couple of dogs…c’mon, people!) on the intersection of tech and...
On Thursday I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with Chris Wegrzyk (Blue Labs), Bruce Willsie (Labels & Lists) and Matt McMillan (Buzzmaker) at the 2014 Victory Awards Conference (you might remember that last year Epolitics.com won a Victory...
Content aggregrator Upworthy.com is one of the few websites that’s clearly changed the way the internet does business. How? Through a ruthless process of testing, they discovered the power of those teasy, clever headlines that absolutely make...