This week’s theme: A Farewell to Mubarak.
- Digital revolutionaries change Arab region, via @alvarolins, and Social Media Networks & Opposition Politics in Egypt. Plus, Anatomy of a revolution: Meet the young Egyptian activists who started it all, Wael Ghonim, Egypt, and Viral Revolution, and Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt.
- The Top 10 Social Tools for Starting Revolutions. C.f. Egypt: Social Media as a Life or Death Proposition and Egypt, The Age Of Disruption And The ‘Me’ In Media.
- Syria Facebook, YouTube Ban Lifted.
- The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL, Politico v HuffPo, Huffington Post and AOL: the end of Web 2.0, and How The Huffington Post Works (In Case You Were Wondering). Meanwhile, AOL Drops $315 Million In Stock Value After Spending $315 Million On HuffPo.
- A warning about the internet its issuer should have heeded. Mubarak’s not the only politician to lose his job this week.
- State Department begins Tweeting in Arabic Just so long as they don’t do it in Texas.
- Using PopVox to fight the Patriot Act renewal.
- Lessons in branding from the Republican Party: an interview with Todd Herman. C.f. John Boehner’s Tech Innovation Wave into the Speaker’s Chair.
- Clever Valentine-related online action from Moms Rising, which apparently got so much attention that it crashed their servers.
- Action Alexandria. Online organizing is going local fast.
- Facebook Page Redesign 2011: All You Need to Know.
- Washington Post introduces “correct this post” button, via shaun dakin.
- HOW TO: Update Your Nonprofit’s Wikipedia Page (and Why You Should).
- When Viral Campaigns Fail and Social Media Mobs Rule. I’m gettin’ me some pitchforks and torches.
- And With That, OpenLeft Closes Up Shop.
- Yes, you can complain about your job on Facebook.
- Packers.com VS Steelers.com.
- How to adapt a gay-dating app for straight women.
- Koch Brothers Will Spend Big in 2012, including on voter microtargeting.
- Millennials Hooked on Social Networking.
- ComScore Says You Don’t Got Mail: Web Email Usage Declines, 59% Among Teens. Email declared dead, for the 20,000th time.
- The Truth about Engagement, Facebook and Email Marketing.
- The FCC Wants You to Get Your Map On.
- Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t, via K Street Cafe.
- Looking to Grow your Grassroots? Look to the Nonprofit Community.
- Internet Fame and the True Impact of Influence.
- Bill O’Reilly vs. Science: O’Reilly’s Top 8 Science FAILs.
- Introducing Slate’s Obama slogan generator.
- And finally, via Kayle Hatt, New iPhone, iPad app helps you keep track of sins. Hmmmm, my copy seems to need more memory….
– cpd
Thanks for including the MomsRising Valentine’s Day card creation station! We had a lot of fun with this one.
-Anita, MomsRising.org
Great work! It’s a really cool application.
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Nice review of things goings on…
I tell ya, jte, I do these Quick Hits things because they help ME pull all the pieces together. Otherwise, I don’t feel like I know how one part of the online advocacy world relates to another.
BTW, nice work on the PowerPopProduction site! Would love more detail on the songs, the kinds of things you talk about in person. I.e., “listen in at minute 1:30 and check out how the keyboard slides in under the vocals and punches up the sound,” the kind of thing you talk about when we’re listening to tunes.