This article continues a series of posts depicting the continual evolution in how we think about Social Media in our digital political strategy practices. You can read Beth’s earlier pieces on Social Sharing and Social Shopping here on...
Enough good reading about internet politics and advocacy to keep us busy until the New Year’s hangovers fade. [Image: Deep Impact probe comet collision. Boom!] The Kochs eclipse the RNC: Meet the guys behind the right’s best data shop...
On Monday, the Times’s Derek Willis wrote up a fascinating Facebook experiment in multi-channel fundraising. The goal? To show if Facebook ads could increase donations from a political campaign’s email list. The method: Have two...
Targeted online political advertising is only for the big dogs — true or false? A year ago, largely true: except for specialized outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Google, providers generally required campaigns to slap down a minimum of five...
Facebook really, really wants you to post your videos directly to your Page rather than publishing a link to the same video on YouTube. How much do they want you to do it? According to our old friend Beth Becker, and based on her experience running...
Ruy Teixeira (co-author of “The Emerging Democratic Majority”” laid out a great description of the Democratic strategy in the 2014 elections at an event last month: he called it an “experiment in agendaless mobilization...
Check out the latest “Political Social Media Grab Bag” e-newsletter from regular Epolitics.com contributor and friend-of-the-site Beth Becker. We missed her November issue in middle of the election frenzy, but the December issue’s...
Continuing our recent stroll through the halls of digital politics memory, let’s go back this week to the early earliest days of social advocacy. Friendster may have been a ghost and Facebook a glimmer on the horizon when Epolitics.com...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. A special note to our readers-via-email: be sure to click through to the online version of this...
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws. Illegal coordination via anonymous Twitter accounts? More: GOP Operatives Use Twitter To Hide In Plain Sight. How Facebook plans to become one of the most powerful tools in politics. C.f. Facebook...