My latest Campaigns & Elections column sets us up for the year ahead, with a look at three big trends that we should watch in 2018. A preview: Campaigns, nonprofits and other political actors will confront the same social-media challenge now bedeviling corporate brands: how to reach people...
Read More »Who loses from Facebook’s most recent change to all-powerful News Feed algorithm? Basically, any organization or company with a Facebook Page that ahs relied on “organic” (non-paid) distribution to get content in front of its followers. Small businesses and local nonprofits...
Read More »Hi folks, so sorry for the long radio silence, but I’ll make it up to you soon: Epolitics.com has plenty of articles just bursting to get out, and I can’t wait for them to see the light. Last week New Mexico and Texas, this week Ukraine — life as a consultant has its adventures...
Read More »Greetings from Netroots Nation! I’m in Atlanta with hundreds of my favorite folks on the Left, learning and chatting and learning and chatting (right now I’m in a session on the future of digital organizing run by Beth Becker and John Brougher). Last night I had a long conversation...
Read More »After a long post-election slumber, Epolitics.com is back! Let’s get back in the fray with a post from Beth Becker, in which she peers into a crystal ball and reports from The Future. Check out her author page for past years’ predictions and more. It’s that time of the year...
Read More »Yesterday we looked at Donald Trump’s sophisticated Facebook infrastructure, which included targeted “dark posts” and an impressive program to recruit supporters and test content on a massive scale (175,000 variants in one day!). But Hillary Clinton was no slouch on the digital...
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