Last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by CrowdTangle: Forecast the Facts (1131x) Chesapeake Climate Action Network (86x) Americans Against Fracking (70x) Indiana AFL-CIO (65x)...
Howdy folks, Wednesday morning I’ll be venturing out of the e.politics bunker for a trip down to Capitol Hill for a panel discussion, part of the new Conncected Congress series. I’m on-stage with friends Serenety Hanley and Lorelei...
Just a day after celebrating our own first seven years online, it’s time to welcome a new website to the digital politics beat. Joe Fuld has been running a political consulting firm called The Campaign Workshop for a while now, and he’s...
A small milestone slipped by unnoticed a week or two back: the seven-year anniversary of the launch of Epolitics.com. Wow! In that long-ago summer of 2006, George W. Bush was President, the Republicans controlled Congress, YouTube was a year old...
New feature! Our friends over at CrowdTangle have started collecting a list of “over-performing” nonprofit Facebook posts every week, and we’ll be publishing them on Epolitics.com henceforth. What’s an over-performing post...
So, here’s one way Organizing for America (which runs the former Obama campaign supporter list) is going to use its grassroots base: pressuring Congressmembers in their districts during the August recess. From OFA’s Jon Carson: Friend...
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...