New guest author! Steve Kleine is the Principal at Ensomo, a social media monitoring and analysis firm, and in the piece below he introduces us to the basic concepts campaigns need to know about this ever-more-important aspect of online...
Whether or not hashtags will win anything for anyone in 2012, we can be sure that every major event related to the elections will be live-tweeted, just as the Occupy Wall Street protests have been. Over at the New Organizing Institute’s blog...
The latest from regular contributor Beth Becker (@spedwybabs). Overview: Social Media and 2012 Political Campaigns By Beth Becker We’re deep into the 2011 cycle and campaigns all across the country are starting to gear up for 2012. Many of...
Guest article! Joe Flood’s name’s been seen around here a time or two before, and you can check out his book “Murder in Ocean Hall” or follow him on The Twitter. The piece below originally appeared on JoeFlood.com. Park...
Yesterday’s “Hashtags ain’t winnin’ no elections on MY watch” article stirred up the expected reaction on Twitter, with Alan Rosenblatt among others making cogent points to counter my bold declaration. But, Asher Huey...
Update: See Kevin Bondelli’s reponse, #ColinDelanyIsRight About Hashtags. And, note that the original article turned ME into a hashtag. For an example of how the online communications ground is constantly changing under candidates’ feet...
Rick Perry may have tried to upstage her with his campaign launch, but Michelle Bachmann did win this year’s Ames Straw Poll, usually an early indicator of a candidate’s strength in first-to-caucus Iowa. An article in yesterday’s...
Here’s a little dramatization of a conversation that most online communicators have had in some form or another: Over at the day job, one of my colleagues tossed around the idea of using the video-creation site xtranormal for a project, so I...
Epolitics.com may have taken the last couple of weeks of summer off, but SOME people have more of a work ethic — among them regular contributor Beth Becker (@spedwybabs). Check out her latest treatise below, where she lays out Ten Commandments...
Here’s a fun idea — the folks at Progress Texas have put together PerryForPresidentFML, a website whose whole purpose is to make it easy for you to send out unflattering-but-true messages about Texas Governor and new Presidential...