No, the scoop ISN’T that the newly unveiled “Social Victory Center” is set to share users’ activity far and wide by default, as Shaun Dakin noted yesterday. That’s annoying, but not exactly news: by now, Facebook is...
Big day for technology rollouts! The Republican Party proudly released its new grassroots-engagement Facebook App today, which got coverage in a few outlets including the Christian Science Monitor, where I got a couple of solid quotes: “At...
Guest article! Laura Packard of PowerThru Consulting is no stranger to these pages, and her latest is an update of her earlier (and popular) article on connecting social media and email. The piece below is also our third product of the 2012...
Peter Greenberger made a great observation today on a CampaignTech panel about reaching inside-the-Beltway “influentials.” Peter’s now with Twitter (he was previously at Google), but he got his political start on a Clinton campaign...
Absolute genius from The Oatmeal — we talk about best practices all day long here at Epolitics.com, but this cartoon says it more eloquently than I ever could (be sure to click through to the full version if you’re on the E.pol front...
The good Senator from Nebraska Iowa [d’oh!] called President Obama “stupid” on Twitter the other day for his remarks about the Supreme Court and the health care law, with results one would expect (my fave response, from David...
Update: by popular request, here’s the link to the resource page referred to in the audio clip — I forgot it the first time around. Good news — our South by Southwest panel discussion on the Occupy movement as an example of the...
Howdy folks, I’ve been hit lately by a rash of sales pitches from social media “experts,” and the only rational response is to make fun of them. So with a nod to Letterman, here are my Top Ten Signs a “Social Media...
Call today a study in crowdsourcing contrasts. First, the good: public-interest news outlet ProPublica is asking citizens to help track political advertising by candidates and outside groups like SuperPACs (they need assistance because the FCC has...
The folks over at Edelman Digital have done us a solid: they’ve looked at months of data on the Twitter habits of U.S. House members and Senators and drawn conclusions about what works: In the analysis, the team defined success metrics for...