New Epolitics.com contributor Ben Kaplan is the founder and CEO of PR Hacker. Read more on his blog. Becoming The First Viral President: How Trump Won The Race To The White House When Donald Trump sent a thunderbolt to the Democratic and Republican...
Was anyone truly surprised to learn that Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women in the “Access Hollywood” video released Friday? If you were, you haven’t been paying attention — from Meghyn Kelly to Miss Piggy...
The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it. So much for an informed electorate. Update: A post-referendum “Remain” petition apparently crashed the British Parliament’s petition site...
Update: Orlando shooter inspired by Islamic extremist information shared online, President Barack Obama says. Update: Orlando shooting exposes Donald Trump’s biggest weakness: A total lack of empathy. Tweets from the Id. Update: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan...
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...
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”...
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...
Check out the terrific ideas from Beth Becker below, then add your own in the comments. What’s the difference between prophetic and crazy? Time will tell…. Also, be sure to sign up for Beth’s extensive social media training series...