After a couple of cycles in which Republican online presidential campaign staff didn’t seem to know what hit them, a book about Obama 2012’s data and analytics operation is suddenly all the rage on the Right. NY Mag’s Steve Friess...
Congrats to Jason Rosenbaum and the rest of the team behind the Corporate Action Network’s new online toolset! Optimized for local organizers but useful for larger groups as well, the new Action Network platform officially launched this week:...
Molly Knight Raskin has a completely unexpected 9/11 story in Slate today, about the man who was quite likely the first victim of that morning (a former member of an Israeli counter-terrorism team who happened to be on board the flight that would...
Our friends over at The Brick Factory came out with a revealing infographic/report today: a look at how mobile usage has changed for their 60+ client content websites over the past few years. The upshot, of course, is that many more people are now...
Now published on Mondays! Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by CrowdTangle. See below for methodology and an explanation of the scoring. 1. Our Time (552x) Post by...
Luis Hestres had a great line yesterday: “Email is the Jason Bourne of online apps: somebody’s always trying to kill it.” Hah! Good one — and relevant to our earlier discussion about why Twitter hasn’t replaced email...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by CrowdTangle. Note that the same video shows up three different times, from three different Greenpeace chapters! I think we can...
Y’all oughta know by now that I’m a huge fan of Austin’s South By Southwest festival, despite what it does to my poor, battered mind and body. This year I’m damn happy to have helped put together a SXSW Interactive panel idea...
The current Campaigns & Elections TechBytes column went online today, and it’s chock-full of goodies for you fine people to enjoy. First up, Obama Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani and others talk a about the limits of data in political...
Content marketing is a hot topic in the political advocacy world, and for good reason: particularly in a social media-influenced communications environment, content is what spreads our messaging, attracts new supporters and helps us achieve our...