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...
Hi folks, with Epolitics.com well into its ninth(!) year of publishing, we’ve seen more changes in digital politics and advocacy in these pages than I can even remember. So let’s start reliving The Way Things Were in the Old Days in true...
On Giving Tuesday, let’s look back at Allyson Goldsmith’s guide to planning year-end fundraising for an advocacy group or nonprofit…first published back in August. Procrastinators, You still have time! I just got brought in to...
Check out the last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: Black Friday pushback, love for the troops and one chillin’ bird. A...
The 2014 elections are behind us, but the post-mortems are still flowing fast. The latest edition of “Technology Bytes” got a jump on the competition, though, with a pre-mortem (I filed the column late in October) look at the two key...