Pre-RootsCamp, let’s clear the decks for action.
- Why Are Upworthy Headlines Suddenly Everywhere?. C.f. Why Everyone Will Totally Read This Column: A Gawker Editor Tells How He Picks ‘Viral’ Content Readers Can’t Resist Sharing
- Does Facebook Think Virality Mills Are The New Content Farms? Dark, satanic…all the poor kittens shoveling coal into furnaces….
- When Social Media Headlines Go Awry. Enough.
- Politico Stonewalls Mike Allen Payola Scandal. Why is this not a bigger deal?
- Why Google is a Political Pundit’s Worst Enemy.
- Ouch. Smackdown.
- Bill Bratton and the Ideology of Data: NYC and the Future of Policing.
- Jamestown Associates, the NRSC, the SCF, and blacklisting.
- An underhanded anti-Obamacare stunt by the California GOP [updated]. Fake website!
- NSA Also Spying on World of Warcraft, Xbox Live. Second Life, too! (for real).
- Twitter winners and losers among the media set.
- Social Media-Fueled Black Friday Walmart Protests Becoming A Holiday Tradition, But Management Is Fighting Back.
- Top 5 Most Overhyped Social Media Buzzwords In 2013 meets 5 predictions for social media in 2014. C.f. The 10 Biggest Social Media Marketing Fails Of 2013.
- New Studies Debate if Social Media is Turning People into Slacktivists. Meh. C.f. Social media have ‘big bark,’ but bite is debated: Do Social Media Platforms Translate Into Social Impact?
- #GivingTuesday Online Donations Up 90% from 2012. I’ve heard grumbling about low ROI, though. C.f. Top 10 #GivingTuesday Tweets: What They Teach Us for Fundraising on Twitter and Is Giving Tuesday good for your fundraising?.
- Track 2013 Year-End Online Giving, plus Philanthropy Predictions 2014.
- [Infographic] The Rise of the Nonprofit Sector.
- Advocacy Groups Use Games to Trigger Action, and Why Our (Online) Petition Against Lululemon Is Better Than a Boycott.
- Healthcare.gov and Social Media Success Stories.
- Facebook to emphasize news stories more, memes less, but Just 47% of Facebook Users Get News From the Social Network.
- thanksgiving.facebook.style. A roundup of some of the best (and worst) Facebook posts to celebrate Thanksgiving.
- Volunteer Recruitment 101.
- Seven Tips to Start a Guest-Blogging Program.
- How Twitter can kill your career.
- How Instagram Harnesses the Awesome Power of Mobile, Social Media and Photos: 3 Success Stories.
- 3 Biggest Reasons Nonprofits Still Aren’t Using Mobile Payments.
- Action Network Releases New Fundraising Tool, Triples Activists on network in first three month.
- 5 reasons you should stop fighting over your nonprofit’s home page. Don’t make me pull this internet over.
- Google Launches World’s First High-Resolution Interactive Map of Global Deforestation.
- Architect’s Gorgeous Portraits Show Internet’s “Connectedness”.
- 10 Signs You Are On A Losing Political Campaign. Vulture hovering over your shoulder = plan your exit strategy.
- And finally, Is This What You Want? Author Of Viral Poverty Piece Takes Out Teeth To Prove Her Story.
– cpd