It’s a mental shift for online communicators: don’t think about Facebook content as content, think of each piece as an action. I.e., a Facebook post isn’t really words or images, it’s a Share — it’s an action that...
Hi folks, here are a couple of D.C. events you might want to check out in the next couple of weeks. First off, our old friend Doktor Alan Rosenblatt’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable meets next Thursday, and the topic is the online campaign for...
The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman verdict dominated the news this weekend, with the internet no exception. Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman...
Time to mark a technological changing of the guard: Indians have sent their last telegrams. After today, a medium that knitted the subcontinent together in the days before broadband and mobile phones will be no more: On July 14, the last for the...
Hi folks, it was three months ago that I dove back into the consulting world, starting a digital strategy practice focusing on advocacy and politics. The initial results? Thus far, good! So, here’s what’s been going on (besides a recent...
Excellent news! If you’re looking for beach reading, my former NMS colleague Yussi Pick has just written a new book you should definitely check out. Though, it might be more appropriate for a trip to the Bodensee or the Baltic than Ocean City...
Sunday night I transferred my Google Reader information to Feedly — with only hours to go, the long list of digital-communications-related sites I’d signed up to follow was safe. But it was clear that the same couldn’t be said of...
Thanks Mr. Google! You’re killing off the channel through which about one-third of Epolitics.com loyalists access the site: as of Monday, Google Reader will be no more. Back in the far distant past, around 2005, we once had a vibrant bunch of...
You can attribute Silicon Valley’s success to any number of key factors: good universities, the availability of capital and a wealth of entrepreneurial experience are just a start. But without a talented pool of tech workers ready to jump to...
Rapid response in action! Within minutes of this morning’s Supreme Court decision striking down parts of the Voting Rights Act, while most analysts were still parsing it, this email landed in my inbox via the Democratic National Committee...