Because too much digital politics is never enough.
- Update: Disgruntled Republicans Livetweet Obama’s Closed-Door Speech.
- Obama to Huddle With Organizing for Action Group today. Meanwhile, New Obama Nonprofit Worries Some Democratic Leaders, since it could suck all the air out of the fundraising room. More on OFA funding: Obama nonprofit advocacy group reverses course on corporate donations, as Obama Backers Seek Big Donors for new OFA. Finally, OFA Targets Congress on Guns and Some Members Fire Back.
- RNC to launch major digital overhaul following election inquiry.But, GOP Digital Divide May Take Years to Bridge. Note: Lots of love for the VAN.
- House Democrats Cash In With Online Fundraising Program.
- Are hashtags a political #wasteoftime? C.f. Are You Sure You Want to Use That #Hashtag? and GOP Slogan Machine Cranks Out the #Obamaquester.
- Social Media Has Little Impact on Congress.
- DCCC launches online video ads against Tea Party House members.
- Man Who Planted “47%” Hidden Camera Speaks. Was a bartender at Romney event.
- Obama staffers help with “Operation Ohio” in Italian election. Meanwhile, an Italian comedian leverages his blog and social media in a surprise showing. Key quote, which applies to Americans Elect: “The dream of a prefab centrist party has no real constituency.”
- Obama’s former campaign manager opens consulting firm.
- Revolution Messaging adds new partners, opens campaigns division.
- GOP firms partner to offer data services.
- Reporters Without Borders Releases List of “Enemies of the Internet”.
- Massachusetts Republican Senate Candidate’s Copy and Paste Campaign Website.
- The White House Is Opening Up Its Petition Web Site To Outside Developers.
- Amid Deadlock, Obama Pins Hopes on Helping Democrats Win Back the House in 2014.
- House Democrats Resort to Press Releases.
- Chinese hackers outed themselves by logging into their personal Facebook accounts.
- Mob Justice: Why did a bunch of people on the Internet donate $700,000 to a bullied bus monitor?
- Great list of state-level political blogs from The Fix, via Rachel Perrone.
- Is the use of Twitter exchanges to document political hypocrisy a new frontier in reporting?
- John Boehner’s 2011 PowerPoint Touting the Sequester.
- ‘Friends of Hamas’: My role in the birth of a rumor.
- Russia Tries To Remove Images of New Drone From the Internet.
- On Today’s Battlefield, Is Information More Important Than Firepower?.
- 5 ways to boost traffic to your blog with Twitter, via Jonathan Rick.
- The Government Wants You to Innovate With Its New Social APIs.
- Schweitzer Touts Poll Showing Him Crushing Baucus, posting it on Facebook.
- Obama, the Puppet Master. “The mastery mostly flows from a White House that has taken old tricks for shaping coverage (staged leaks, friendly interviews) and put them on steroids using new ones (social media, content creation, precision targeting).”
- Content Marketing: An Advocacy Strategy You Can’t Ignore. C.f. How to Rock Your Website Content Planning.
- Six Steps to Plan a Multichannel Fundraising Campaign.
- Creating shareable images in under 5 minutes (without money or design skills).
- Flowchart: Where Should You Post Your Social Media Status?.
- 5 Tips to Increase Clicks on Twitter.
- Measuring Your Social Media Efforts, via Tony D. Clark.
- New Tool for counting social shares.
- A Valentine’s Day A/B Test Case Study in Action. C.f. 3 Tips for Your Next Email Campaign.
- Twitter now has an ads API, via Sarah Burris.
- Google’s Biz Chief: 50 Percent of Ads Will Go Online in the Next Five Years.
- This one weird trick will keep your Facebook ad from being rejected.
- Gawker and ‘The Politico’. You kids play nice or I’ll take your ball away.
- CQ Roll Call Biz Side Implodes. Ouch.
- And finally, Lawmaker ‘Likes’ Racy, Violent Facebook Pages. I ask you, who among us could question a man’s love for “Big Bootie Freaks”.
See also past Quick Hits editions.
– cpd