Remember that time we wondered why there wasn’t a Right-wing petition site, an equivalent of Care2 or Change.org but for causes dear to the conservative heart? Now there IS one: The digital media firm Intermarkets, Inc., today announced the...
In which regular contributor Laura Packard wraps up your list-building options for the New Year in a nice holiday bow. Read her past articles for Epolitics.com, and note that this piece first appeared on the PowerThru Consulting blog. We’ve...
Just about all Digital Strategists want bigger email lists: who wouldn’t want more supporters to talk to, mobilize and fundraise from? But list growth is expensive and hence sometimes out of reach for small nonprofits. Never fear, you can...
Guest article! Good advice from our friend Laura Packard at PowerThru Consulting on how organizations and campaigns can use online advocacy to build their lists. For another recent example of this practice, see the success of NAACP’s Trayvon...
So there I was, innocently puttering around the e.politics bunker last night with the Military Channel on in the background (a show on CIA spycraft! Yum), when all of a sudden Mike Huckabee’s Southern drawl rolled out of my fine 150-watt 1993...
Words of wisdom from RadCampaign’s Allyson Kapin, a friend and colleague in the online politics world: Of course, this isn’t new advice (parts of it are also in the list-building and social network chapters of Online Politics 101), but...
Well, “bribery” of a sort: over the past couple of days, two different organizations have tried an interesting tack to build their Facebook followings, promising to make a donation to a cause if people “like” their Facebook...
These days, corporate brands and nonprofits alike are diving into Facebook marketing — for a small indicator, look at how many TV commercials now drive potential customers to a Facebook page rather than to a company’s own website (ten...
If you dug Josh Koster and Tyler Davis’s earlier Ten Commandments of Campaign Social Media, be sure to check their latest article below, also excerpted from the (free to download) Digital Political Campaigns 101. Online Advertising Early in an...
Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident The fruits of Eric Cantor’s new “YouCut” project made it to the House floor last week, with results entirely predictable: nothing passed, and it did so amid great partisan...