STILL haven’t caught up on the online politics and advocacy blogs, but let’s clear the proverbial cache and make room for some fresh links.
- Congratulations to Adam Conner and Tanya Tarr!
- 6 in 10 Twitter Users Jump Ship Within a Month.
- White House Reaches Out via E-Mail on Health-Care Reform.
- 2009 email fundraising and advocacy benchmark report released. C.f. Highlights from the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study.
- Auto Buzz: Toyota Has Strongest Online Advocacy.
- Study Shows Social Media Releases Are Less Effective Than Traditional Press Releases, via Amanda Chapel.
- Be honest: We don’t want young voters. “Online politics is a big fat myth” (in Canada).
- Despite Tools, It’s About the Story.
- The day the bloggers won.
- House GOP using YouTube-based strategy against Dems in floor debate.
- The YouTube Confirmation: What Supreme Court shortlisters are saying when they think nobody is listening.
- BBC Twestion Time Takes Off with bbcqt hashtag: 3000 Tweets in one Hour.
- New York Congressional Campaign Used Rare Google Ad Tactic.
- Major Front in Va. Race Is Online: Candidates Court Facebook, Blogs in New Political Era.
- Tasteless tactics and the brands that use them (e.politics sad not to make the list).
- When Did Your County’s Jobs Disappear? An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country.
- Social Media Study Finds Most Nonprofits Have Presence on Facebook But Raising Little Money.
- Political strategists launch online ad network for issue advocacy.
- Scourge of political cyber-squatting.
- U.S. Department of Blogging: What the rest of the government can learn from the TSA.
- Little Brother Is Watching You.
- Funny Anti-Gay-Marriage Ad Sparks YouTube Revolt.
- LEGO Battleship Yamato Completed!. Now we’re talkin’ AWESOME.
- Social Networks For 2009 That Web Workers Need To Pay Attention To.
- Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign to the Web.
- If politics were more like the internet… that would be a good thing.
- Turkish TV Anchor Dons Blackface to Address Obama, Internet Responds.
- The YouTube Presidency (good piece, though e.politics grows weary of the construction “the [insert web 2.0 trend or website] presidency/election/revolution,” but not quite as weary as of the phrase “perfect storm,” which now stands in for “perfect inability to avoid cliche”).
- A Clinton Carnival of Prizes.
- Choosing A Database? Mistakes To Avoid.
- Corporations see need to respond to Twitter.
- How Technology Won the Presidency, Part I.
- Email Compliments For Nonprofits (from the corporate world).
- Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide.
- Broken bloggers (in the UK) meets Don’t write off blogging.
- Liberals swap Wii fun for online fluff (in Canada).
- New Journal: International Journal of E-Politics. The academics want to play on our turf!
- Is Part of the United States in the Third World? (via Brad Terrell).
- Meet the brands that ‘get’ Twitter.
- Downing Street website hosts petition calling for Gordon Brown to resign.
- Obama & Fundraising: Lets get real!
- Always consider the source….
- In Egypt, a blogger tries to spread ‘culture of disobedience’ among youths.
- Palin’s online army marches on.
- So, why should I care about Facebook? Choosing the Right Social Media and Web Tools for Your Organization.
- A Tweeter in the White House.
- Candidates utilize Facebook, blogs in a new political era.
- LabourList: a turnaround strategy?
- Twitterjacking’ — Identity Theft in 140 Characters or Less.
- 10 Things Every Nonprofit Should Know About Social Media and Online Communications.
- Feds Go Online to Brief Masses About Swine Flu.
- Facebook copies Twitter, opens API to developers.
- Older Users Help Facebook Grow.
- Liberal blogs vs. the Obama administration.
- Beating Somali Pirates at Their Own Game.
- 7 ways to get more out of your creative.
- Victory gardens and online advocacy.
- Mobile Advocacy and Fundraising: Live Blogging 2009 NTC.
- Oklahoma Man Arrested for Twittering Tea Party Death Threats.
- Online Video: Viral Isn’t Everything.
- Flash activists use social media to drum up support.
- All You Need to Know to Twitter, via A Loyal Reader (thanks Pops!).
- Barack Hussein Obama’s un-American mustard choice riles the blogosphere.
- MySpace to Drag SocNet Ad Spend Down 3%.
- The View from Stanford: Why Video Marketing and Email Marketing Make a Perfect Match.
- 10 Things Every Nonprofit Should Know About Social Media and Online Communications.
- Nuts and Bolts of Online Social Networking.
- Middle-Agers Help Hulu Grow 490% Tivo killing your television ads? Maybe you should look somewhere else.
- ‘Power Moms’ Comprise 20% of Online Population.
- How Changing a Button Increased a Site’s Annual Revenues by $300 Million, via Violet Bliss Dietz.
- 13 Essential Social-Media ‘Listening Tools.’
- April’s Top 50 Websites: SocNets, Swine Flu Top-of-Mind.
- China and Russia v. the US Grid! Or is it just hype?
- Big Ivan, The Tsar Bomba (“King of Bombs”). Now this is real AND freaky.
- Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face. Yes, it’s satire.
- Maps of the Seven Deadly Sins in the U.S., another Brad Terrell find.
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to peer into history. A beautifully layered story, with an unexpected coda.
– cpd