Quick thought: when advocates, fundraisers and organizers talk about the “ladder of engagment”, we usually speak in terms of “moving people up.” I.e., we’re getting our supporters to take higher-value actions over time...
As reported in Gizmodo yesterday: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending†news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project...
Hi folks, lots of good stuff coming soon, including e-book excerpts, a new edition of Technology Bytes and an entirely new publication! We’ve been busy down here in the bunker, and you’ll get to share in the fruits of our labors shortly...
With a potential Trump nomination making Democrats dream of taking back the Senate and even the House, let’s revisit a bit of wisdom first published on Epolitics.com way back in 2009. This lesson is even MORE important seven years later, since...
Clinton rules Twitter during Republican debate with these epic trolls of her rivals. ‘How to move to Canada’ trending after Trump win on Super Tuesday, via Laura Packard. Even as He Rises, Donald Trump Entertains Conspiracy Theories that...
Quick Hits is back! Let’s clear the queue and try to do these more regularly. Marco Rubio would like to sell you this broken watch. Note that that this went up during the Thursday debate, as he was launching his “selling watches”...
Perhaps the state wasn’t quite the “firewall” the Clinton campaign had hoped, but Hillary still pulled off a win in this weekend’s Nevada caucuses. This result came despite a late Sanders surge, fueled both by his strong...
Not to sound like a broken record, but Bernie’s supporters keep opening their wallets with wild abandon. Small donors, baby! Ask ’em once, ask ’em twice, ask ’em until they scream for mercy…and then ask ’em again...
It’s the State of the Union, huzzah! For political communicators, this is a special time of year…one in which we get to earn our keep. Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big...
Time for a little Throwback Thursday fun, kids! Let’s hop in the Wayback Machine and trip down Memory Lane all the way to 2012, when I’d had it with bad social media sales pitches. The result? The top 10 signs a social media...