Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter is out, and you should check out the whole April issue archived right here, an Epolitics.com online exclusive. The Grab Bag is monthly for now, and it’s a hit with...
Ed. note: Will Conway’s three-part series on the power and promise of digital organizing continues. Author’s Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better...
This piece comes to us from Jeanette Russell, a long-time Epolitics.com reader who’s now Marketing Director at Attentive.ly. Divisiveness doesn’t come about in politics just around election season — year round, there are topics...
In almost 20 years in the digital politics and advocacy world, I’ve seen plenty…but I’ve never seen this. Yes it’s a press release, or so it claims, but the journalistic target appears to be a middle school student newspaper...
Social media is dangerous: to political careers, at least. Just in the past couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of unplanned staff resignations due to Facebook or Twitter posts, usually something racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise awful...
Regular Epolitics.com readers will know all about Technology Bytes, the regular internet politics-focused column I write for Campaigns & Elections magazine. I’m proud to know that it’s become a popular feature for C&E readers...
New Epolitics.com contributor Will Conway (of NationBuilder) starts a three-part series in which he thinks big about a major change technology is bringing to political campaigns and political organizing. In the years since the 2012 election cycle, a...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
ActionSprout’s Kim Blomgren writes up a presentation by our own Beth Becker. Way to get someone else to do the hard part, Beth. 😉 Recently Beth Becker and ActionSprout hosted a webinar addressing how to make Facebook’s algorithm work for...
Karen Jagoda and met up on the air yesterday to record the latest Digital Politics Radio show, and as always we had a super-fun conversation. This time we talked about Hillary’s emails and the implications of this particular...