This piece comes to us from Jeanette Russell, a long-time Epolitics.com reader who’s now Marketing Director at Attentive.ly. Divisiveness doesn’t come about in politics just around election season — year round, there are topics...
Social media is dangerous: to political careers, at least. Just in the past couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of unplanned staff resignations due to Facebook or Twitter posts, usually something racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise awful...
ActionSprout’s Kim Blomgren writes up a presentation by our own Beth Becker. Way to get someone else to do the hard part, Beth. 😉 Recently Beth Becker and ActionSprout hosted a webinar addressing how to make Facebook’s algorithm work for...
With an eye toward today’s rapid response webinar, let’s revisit the Susan Sarandon-targeted paid sick leave campaign Beth Becker shared with us back in 2012. For more, see Political Rapid Response Now Happens in Seconds, Not Hours, In a...
Snow day? We’ve got you covered! Yesterday, friend-of-Epolitics Jason Lefkowitz sent around a link to a great little post from Yahoo Technology: Corporate Twitter F#@!up Bingo. How often do we see the people who run Twitter accounts for...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter is out, and you should check out the whole February issue archived right here, an Epolitics.com online exclusive. The Grab Bag is monthly for now, and it’s a hit...
Is it time for the SOTU response to go? Luis Hestres argues, yes. C.f. yesterday’s piece about a data-visualization app showing how the Twitterati reacted to this year’s speech. Iowa senator Joni Ernst’s response to President...
Still got #SOTU fever? Twitter’s got you covered, with a cool interative visualization of the Twitter discussion around the President’s State of the Union speech to Congress and the nation last night. You can get the flavor in the image...
Here’s a tip from Facebook’s Crystal Patterson, delivered in a Rootscamp session in December: try posting some of your Facebook content in the evening, when many Americans now watch TV with second (or third) screens close at hand...
Yesterday’s hacking of a U.S. military Twitter feed and YouTube page may not be militarily significant in any material way, but it IS a classic act of war…of the psychological variety. The hackers (presumably associated with the...