Cross-posted on K Street Cafe A tough question came up in a conversation with a visiting group of Danish communications professionals last week — how do you actually measure the effectiveness of social media outreach? At that moment, the...
Update: Barack Obama Uses Google to Combat Vicious Rumors. Via Dan Lipman. Update: Palin Attuned More to Public Will, Less to Job’s Details. Note her questionable(?) use of email advocacy as governor. New viral email: Sarah Palin is annointed...
First my lawn and now the internets, the damn kids are everywhere nowadays I tell you what. A menace! With their hippity hop and their Facebooks and their constant use of the word “like” as a conjunction, I can’t hardly make sense...
Update: CBS yanks McCain/Palin “lipstick on a pig” online ad. Update: Boomers Get Hip to This Crazy ‘Internet Video’ Stuff. Update: DNC launches Sarah Palin: The Next Cheney. Also, Talking Points Memo Embraces The Pig (via...
Guess what — people who are trained to organize political action might just be able to hit back if you take ’em on. In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama’s community organizer background...
Update: More online Palin-related satire. Somebody left the following video critique of the Republican vice-presidential pick as a link on the tPrez version of the Sarah Palin is Your New Segway article, so let’s reward a likely act of blatant...
Cross-posted on techPresident This just in from my friend Chris Cosart: the time of reckoning is at hand. I.e., the internet is turning its collective “genius” on Sarah Palin, meaning that she’s transcended the merely mortal to...
Back to work! But first, a few stories you might not want to miss. Daily Kos (indirectly) set off Palin pregnancy story, and Rightie bloggers Are Not Pleased. MySpace Page Provide Tabloids With Fodder On Palin Daughter’s Beau. Don’t Like...
This piece was written early in July for inclusion in the E-Voter Institute’s 7th Annual Survey of Political and Advocacy Communications Leaders and 3rd Annual Survey of Voter Expectations. Incorporated into Harnessing the Power of Social...
In which we look through the results of a couple of weeks’ worth of email discussions, Google Alerts and suggestions from friends and readers, plus some random browsing. Update: Blogger + NokiaN95 + Qik = New, Critical Journalism? Or, More of...