My friend Lucian Despoiu is a very smart guy: he’s an entrepreneur and a digital political consultant, and he’s worked on campaigns in more countries than I’ve even visited. He gave the presentation below at a recent TEDx event in...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: Upworthy hits the Number One spot with a very un-Upworthy post. If you’re...
Update: see this Washington Post article for more analysis and a response from Facebook. Also, see this critique of the critique, via Shaun Dakin. Hi folks, sorry for the relative paucity of posts this week — your Loyal Editor is a bit under...
In the Scripted World of Diplomacy, a Burst of Tweets. Less filtered: State Department official’s “F*ck the EU” conversation released on YouTube. Don’t be surprised if your TV soon seems to know everything about your politics...
If I have one piece of advice for digital advocacy newbies, it’s this: learn HTML. You wouldn’t believe how many times it’s saved my ass. Every year, a new crop of aspiring digital communicators hits the street, many of them right...
Poster child for brain-dead TV-buying, 2012 edition A couple of recent articles have highlighted a flood of money entering Senate races via “independent expenditure” groups, some of them narrowly focused: By the fall, political...
Update: check out this clever parody site, ParaBellumLabs.org…well done! And why the hell didn’t someone at the RNC buy that domain? More fruits of the Republican effort to catch up with Democrats on the technology front: The RNC Tuesday...
Here’s something folks may want to keep close at hand: a straightforward guide to your (current) Facebook advertising options. A friend was looking for one recently, and Fb’s Katie Harbath was happy to provide. The basic options...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: Planned Parenthood’s popular post-SOTU post only made it to fifth place on...
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of going on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show, and as always, we had a great conversation. Check it out for yourself! Here are just a few things we talked about: Social media and narrowcasting SOTU...