Tons o’ good stuff stacked up during the Online Politics 101 frenzy, so let’s split today’s Quick Hits into a domestic and an international edition.
- New Study On Congressional Staffers’ Attitudes Towards Citizen Advocacy. C.f. Latest Report: What Messaging and Channels Influence Congress?, Traditional Tops Social for Congressional Advocacy, and Communicating With Congress: What the CMF’s Report Means for Grassroots Advocacy.
- For Obama, Getting Message Out Online Is a Challenge, as Democrats Ramp Up Fundraising, in part to “to generate the early cash needed to rebuild the president’s high-tech campaign operation.”
- E-Mail Outage Forces White House to Operate the Oldfangled Way.
- I’ve Got Your Progressive Echo Chamber Right HERE. C.f. Progressive Congress News: Meeting Congressional Staffers, and note the ill effects of cutting Congressional budgets — more power to the lobbyists.
- Talking Points Memo to Double Its DC Bureau, as Apple enlists new lobbying help.
- FBI pays visit to blogger as potential “threat.”
- Beohner screens congressional session opening live on Facebook, Malamud and House Leadership Team Up to Make Congress’s Videos Ãœber-Public, and @SpeakerBoehner, Leading by Example. C.f. Boehner’s Emotions in High Def.
- NY Gov’s Huge Twitter Mistake, and Statehouse Tweets: Incoming Governors Pick Social Media Strategies.
- Looking for What Works: Best Online Organizing Reads of 2010.
- 11 Things to Skip in Social Media in 2011, via Lisa Byrne, and The 5 Major Social Media FAILS of 2010.
- Did the W.H. Visualize a Meatier State of the Union?, and The Importance of Optics: Augmented Reality Edition. Meanwhile, Full Presidential Speech Got an Unscripted Leak Online.
- Online Video Ads in 2011: More Viral, More Creative and at the $1B Mark.
- A lesson in Viral Video Creation — “Mobile Year in Review” Animation.
- “Whether the Republican establishment led by Boehner can keep the support and approval of Tea Party leaders like Littleton over the next year or so is, right now, the most fascinating story line in all of American politics”.
- “For more than two years, the Tea Party Express’ political war chest has been filled with thousands of dollars in donations from a dead woman.”
- Meet ‘N Tweet: Capitol Hill’s New Press Conference.
- Why Marketing Threatens the True Promise of Social Media.
- Does your website make sense?
- Pew Report: The Social Side of the Internet, and Pew: Social Media Now ‘A Standard Tool for Engagement With the Political World’.
- A memorial to GetActive.
- Palin’s unfortunate (Facebook) response to controversy, and 18 Deleted Comments From Sarah Palin’s Facebook Wall, January 8, 2011. Plus, PrimariesForPalin.com, or, Democrats for dirty tricks.
- Zuckerberg: ‘Is Sarah Palin To Blame For AZ Shooting’ Top Question On Facebook soon
afterwards. - Why social networks are sucking up more of your time, and Social networks create their own regional dialects.
- Annual Frito Lay Super Bowl Contest Illustrates Risks of User-Generated Ads, plus How to crowdsource creative advertising.
- When News Breaks, Use Google to Your Advantage.
- Three Ways to Optimize Content Across Channels and Platforms.
- Gaming the system with skim-proof content. In human language, writing good for the internets. C.f. When Content Isn’t King: The Importance and Ease of Search Engine Optimization.
- How to Write a Letter to the Editor that Gets Published and Read (Case Study).
- 20% of retail email is opened on a mobile device.
- Is Instagram the Next Distribution Opportunity for News Media? C.f. U.S. Web Advertising Exceeds Newspaper Print Ads in 2010, eMarketer Says.
- Google Sucks (All the Way to the Bank), and Words of Advice from AdWords.
- Enhancing Ad Campaigns With CRM, via Bryce Cullinane, and How to unite your TV and online efforts. C.f. An Uneasy Threesome: Email, Social and Mobile Marketing, Completely Integrated.
- Black Squirrel co-owner ‘mortified’ over boycott. Controversy comes to E.pol’s ‘hood. C.f. a happier occasion: The Accidental Presidential Empanada Retweet, via Yussi Pick.
- 7 Things Nonprofits Need to Know About the New Facebook Pages, via Heather Mansfield.
- Department of Defense: access to Internet-based capabilities is critical, despite risks.
- Let’s Talk About Quora.
- Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst.
- MySpace Slashes Nearly Half Its Global Staff.
- Coke, Starbucks Try Out Sponored Stories, Facebook’s Latest Ad Offering.
- Magazine readers engage more with interactive than static print ads, via Henri Makembe.
- On being done with online politics.
- Inspiration From the Bench: 4 Content Marketing Lessons From a District Court Judge.
- Boomers online (don’t trust anyone over 50).
- Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender.
- Fundraising Challenge: Acquisition — Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Thinking.
- Opening the redistricting process to anyone, and Online Training for Gerrymanderers-to-Be.
- Gooooo Public Service!.
- Social Fundraising: Innovative Or Bad Buzz?
- Huffing and Puffing, and A Role for Kerry’s Email List in HuffPo’s Creation. Meanwhile, HuffPo Hires Include Execs to Hold Social Marketers’ Hands.
- Facebook is to Politico as Twitter is to National Journal.
- The Slow-Photography Movement: What is the point of taking pictures?
- The Critter Himself: New Media, 1860-style.
- Visualizing the Political Parties. Cooool online presentations. C.f. Mass dying of animals plotted on Google map.
- Here Be Dragons: Governing a Technologically Uncertain Future. C.f. The (Serious) Purpose of Science Fiction.
- So you want to be a Political Operative meets Video: Too Much Social Media Man. C.f. Flowtown Infographic: The Evolution of The Geek
- And finally: Marriott Ends Porn in Hotel Rooms Just in Time for Republican Primary Campaign.
– cpd