Check out Jose Antonio Vargas’s HuffPo piece on Sarah Palin from last week when you get a chance — he’s got some great numbers on the kind of online attention she’s generating, currently more than Obama. Of course it makes...
Shireen Mitchell made a subtle point at today’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable discussion: people often refer to Twitter as an online social network, but she doesn’t think of it that way. To her, Twitter itself isn’t a social...
Twitter here, Twitter there, Twitter everywhere — but what’s it good for? Come to tomorrow’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable and you’ll find out, since host Alan Rosenblatt has organized a great introduction to microblogging as...
A couple of new resources to check out this week: first, Heather Mansfield has launched a new blog focusing on how nonprofits can use online social tools. Heather’s an expert at using online social networks for advocacy and fundraising, and...
Also published on techPresident Update: As of noon today, Wilson’s Democratic opponent has seen $200,000 flow into his coffers via online donation site ActBlue, in part due to advocacy on Lefty blogs. Ouch! | Update 2: a couple of hours later...
It’s not so often that you get to try a communications format completely new to you, and even less so that you decide to do so out-loud and in public, without a net. So when National Journal’s Sara Jerome suggested that we try conducting...
Guest article! Christina Zola wrote the piece below based on her notes from what must have been a fantastic public brainstorming session this past July 29th. Sponsored by the Progressive Communicators of DC and facilitated by Massey Media’s...
Saturday I got to do a presentation for a group of local elected officials at the DC-area Council of Governments retreat, and plenty of good questions and concerns came up during the discussion. I’ve gathered some articles below that expand on...
A Tuesday morning’s random harvest: Facebook ups its Washington profile (hah!) and the Kojo Nnamdi show takes notice, with Kojo bringing public policy director Tim Sparapani in for a stern grilling about the company’s spreading tentacles...
Here’s a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing...