14 Million Online Political Activists, according to Pew Report. Micah Sifry breaks the story, the San Jose Mercury News (among many others) covers it and the Pew site has the numbers. A word of caution before we get too excited — TV is still...
Mike Connery of The Opportunity Agenda writes in to talk about an excellent use of mapping and data by an advocacy campaign he’s involved in: It’s a Google Maps Mashup displaying hospital closures in NYC in 1985, 1995, and 2005 layered...
’08 race: the first (screen) shots. Henry Copeland looks at early blog advertising by presidential candidates. MarketingSherpa’s 2007 Wisdom Report. According to the site, it covers: “email campaign segmentation tests and results...
Schlock and Awe: What Saddam Hussein’s Execution Video Means. From ReelPopBlog: “Absent politics, the video is brutal. With politics, the video is brutally strategic.” Five Prerequisites for Blogging Success. From ProBlogger —...
Hmmmmm, I’ve been a little slower to recover from the long weekend than expected and am behind on writing (nurse, get me a bourbon I.V., stat!), so today’s article will be a super-duper number-one happy fun time Quick Hits catch-up...
Online campaigners unite! You have nothing to lose but oh, about 30 seconds of your time. A group of folks in the field, inspired by a discussion at RootsCampDC, has put together a brief manifesto about how nice it would be if our advocacy...
On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom...
I’m-trapped-in-East-Texas-for-a-week edition. Lessons from the Warner Campaign. Jerome Armstrong talks with Personal Democracy Forum — well worth checking out. Wall Street Journal whaps bloggers upside the head (apparently, most popular...
Extra-long weekend catch-up edition. EVERYBODY’S writing about Time’s choice of you (i.e., Web 2.0, participatory media, etc.) as Man of the Year. Thanks for noticing, MSM guys. Welcome to the party. Advocacy Tools You Need, Like a Fish...
Top YouTube Videos. Todd at The Bivings Report collects several of the best and (unlike the AP) actually shows them to us. Lonelygirl meets Macaca on a Lazy Sunday afternoon… DeLay’s Missteps Still Haunting GOP. Check out some of the...