In Campaigns & Elections this week, I explore a big question: what will a post-pandemic political campaign look like? My answers aren’t quite as far out as January’s predictions for the next decade, but they should give you a few ideas to chew on. What does media-buying look like...
Read More »Check out the last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the Trump and Biden campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages. By these metrics, pages are competing against...
Read More »Let’s continue our examination of the Big Trends shaping the world of digital politics and advocacy with the second excerpt from Chapter Four of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections [2020 Edition]”. Pick up your copy right here or on Amazon (for...
Read More »Perhaps you’ve heard of the Peter Principle, the notion that competent people rise in their jobs until they reach a point where they DON’T know what they’re doing. I.e., they’re promoted to the level of their incompetence. Did the opposite happen to now-former Trump...
Read More »This list got completely out of hand this time, so I’ll try to do these weekly until the election. Note: I included only a sampling of the available “public figure posts horrible thing on social media” stories, so multiply each of the many below by several. Don’t do this:...
Read More »A hacked Twitter account won’t likely swing an election — but we should still act like it could. Not just campaigns, either: Facebook, Twitter and the other platforms need to prepare like the important infrastructure they’ve become. The people behind last week’s targeted...
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