Check out the slides from Friday’s Netroots Nation training, designed to introduce new/creative advertising strategies for political campaigns and advocacy organizations. The training was a hit; we filled the room and flowed out into the...
I’ve been experimenting recently with cross-posting Epolitics.com articles to Medium.com, and last month’s Digital Beachheads article is the latest. With a new title, too, so check out Digital Beachheads: How to Use Facebook to Build...
Hi folks, apologies for the sparse posting — several articles are in the oven right now, but they haven’t yet found the right moment to spring into the world. If you’re in DC next week, though, catch me in person at a Netsquared DC...
On December 20th, Donald Trump finally lived up to his potential: full governmental chaos and confusion. Federal agencies will likely close because Coulter and Limbaugh called his border wall weak. His Secretary of Defense resigned over a foreign...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Paula Noonan is the owner of CapitolContact.com, an online email advocacy platform that includes message-aggregation for delivery to decisionmakers. She’s worked in the political arena since the summer of 1972...
In my latest piece for Blackbaud’s npENGAGE blog (last of a series of four articles), we walk through the options around a common nonprofit communications conundrum: A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook...
Greetings from the land of brain fog! I just spent an intense few days in Bucharest for the political side of the ICEEfest digital marketing conference, followed by meetings and more (pro tip: a memory of the texture of brain on the tongue does not...
Down in New Orleans, a proposed natural gas-fired power plant is in serious trouble — in part because the energy company behind it got caught creating a fake grassroots campaign. To counter local organizing against its project, Entergy hired a...
Top photo via Wikipedia The Parkland students continue to amaze — just today, I read about how David Hogg launched an advertiser boycott against conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham in the few HOURS after she mocked his rejection from...
What should advocates and activists keep in mind as they try to change the world in 2018? Plenty, as Jeanette Russell and I discussed on a recent episode of Blackbaud’s Raise + Engage podcast. Among many sexy topics, we covered: Preparing for...