Here’s a small example of why pushing the “send” button on a mass email is the scariest thing in the digital politics communications world: Yes, the message template had a little snippet of default text at the top, and whoever...
Here’s a question that’s come up several times lately, at panel discussions, on a listserv and (most recently) after a Campaigns & Elections event last week. Why isn’t there a Republican equivalent of Care2 and Change.org? Why...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by CrowdTangle. Note that the top post (Ultraviolet’s infographic about food stamp cuts) was featured in last week’s...
Our good friend Alan Rosenblatt’s next Internet Advocacy Roundtable is coming up on September 26th, and I’ll see you there. The topic this time? Using the Sunlight Foundation’s extensive government-transparency data streams via...
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. International Association of Fire Fighters (345x)...
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...