New feature! Regular Epolitics.com contributor and friend-of-the-site Beth Becker has just launched a “Political Social Grab Bag” email newsletter, and she’s been kind enough to share it with us. Rock and roll! I’ve excerpted...
In my earlier post about learning to live with Facebook’s new algorithm, I mentioned that directly uploading a video to Facebook will get your content more organic reach (more viewers) than sharing a link to the same video hosted on YouTube...
By now most of you will have seen the latest nonprofit fundraising effort to catch the moment and ride a wave of attention, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Some recent stories in the mainsteam media have blasted this particular effort, but for those...
Here’s a quick tip from a social media discussion I sat in on sometime last spring (my notes have evaporated, alas, or I’d give a shout-out to whoever suggested it). If you’re publishing regularly on Facebook, consider taking a...
Over the last few months, just about everyone I’ve spoken with in the communications world has had an opinion on Facebook’s algorithm “tweaks.†While few of the reviews have been positive, I’ve been lucky: I haven’t seen...
New guest author! Shaun Dakin is a good friend and an old hand at social media, and today he comes to us with a message some may find counter-intuitive. Ignore his words at your peril, though! This post first appeared on the Dakin & Associates...
Sohini Baliga posed an excellent question in a social media session at Nonprofit 2.0: how hard would it be for you if Facebook went away tomorrow? In that context, “you” meant “your nonprofit,” but we can extend the question...
Update: a comment from past Epolitics.com contributor Derek Pangallo on Facebook did remind me that people who do a lot of back-and-forth conversation on Twitter will have a different pattern than someone who just posts links to content. That will...
The following is an excerpt from “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates”, available for download on Amazon.com and here on Epolitics.com. This overview focuses on...
On today’s Fox News Sunday, George Will and Brit Hume gave the #BringBackOurGirls awareness-raising campaign for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls what they intended to be a serious intellectual beat-down: “Do you think that this is...