Pittsburgh beckons! I’ll be off to Netroots Nation shortly — our panel’s at 10:30 tomorrow morning, so swing on by if you’re in the neighborhood. But before I leave, here are a handful of stories from over the weekend that shouldn’t be allowed to slip by. First, if...
Read More »Advocacy campaign sites are a distinct breed — whether about human rights or business taxes, they generally do the same things and even usually LOOK quite similar. Why? For one thing, hard experience: online organizers have now had enough years in the business to have a good idea of what...
Read More »A roundup of articles expanding on points in today’s webinar with ReThinkMedia, Staying Relevant in the New Media Landscape. Contact me for more information or for a copy of the Powerpoint. Learning from Obama: Lessons for Online Communicators Online Politics 101 Ning’s Gina Bianchini...
Read More »When you’re the director of social media for General Motors, you have a political job whether you expect it or not. At an SXSW panel on the “Digital Tsunami” that brews up around breaking news events, GM’s Christopher Barger demonstrated a complex understanding of how the...
Read More »The next time your boss wonders why your company or organization’s blog hasn’t blown to the top of the popularity charts, consider this: running a top-level political blog is a serious logistical undertaking. People often point to Daily Kos as a model for a successful blog, since...
Read More »Cross-posted on Fem2.0 Quick: off the top of your head, name the most prominent voices in the progressive political blogosphere. Kos? A guy. Atrios? A guy. Josh Marshall? Glenn Greenwald? Jerome Armstrong? Ditto. The only top-level female bloggers in the general progressive political space who...
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