New 2016 Version! Available now on Amazon.com and as a PDF This article is from an earlier ebook and is now out of date! Please check out the NEW ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2016: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for...
In his Times piece from yesterday, “Hashtag Activism, and Its Limits,” David Carr at first doesn’t seem so sure about this whole online advocacy thing: I’m starting to experience a kind of “favoriting” fatigue...
New guest author! Michael Khoo is Vice-President for Communications at Population Action International and an old friend — he happens to live a couple of floors about the e.politics bunker (sorry about the noise, dude). Check out his take on...
Continuing our recent run of a real wealth of guest articles, here comes another contribution from our old friend Beth Becker, who reminds us that in social media campaigning, we should to begin at the very beginning, which is a very good place to...
Howdy folks, sorry for the brief publishing hiatus, but things been a little crazy down in the e.politics bunker. One bit of fun: today’s Pennsylvania Progressive Summit panel, “Smart Digital Strategies for the Real World,” where...
Hi folks, it’s getting late on a Sunday and I’m coming down from the high of seeing a super-fun band with great stage presence and mad musicianship last night — Super Diamond, the finest Neil Diamond cover band that could possibly...
Also published on HuffingtonPost With police crackdowns increasing and their physical encampments too-often attracting outright criminals looking for trouble, should Occupy Wall Street consider switching to a largely online existence? In mid...
Killed alongside Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Aulaqi in Yemen by an American missile last week: Samir Khan, Aulaqui’s chief online communicator: Jarret Brachman, a counterterrorism expert and government consultant who analyzed Khan’s...
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...
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...