Consulting work has conquered the e.politics bunker of late, but let’s kickstart the publishing schedule with the best digital politics reading list on Earth.
- The Permanent Campaign’s Desperate, Hungry, and Uncouth Hunt for Cash.
- Can Hillary Clinton Manage a Presidential Campaign? The real question raised by the State Department emails. C.f. Why Hillary Clinton’s Homebrew Email Is a Political [and Security] Nightmare.
- Inside Jeb Bush’s ‘shock and awe’ launch.
- On Twitter, 2016 Rivals Let the Jabs Fly. Article’s behind the WSJ paywall, alas.
- White House, Elizabeth Warren team up to roll back GOP state dominance. C.f. Democrats Planning For Next Round Of Redistricting. How about some digital help for down-ballot candidates?
- Predictive Intelligence: Think Hillary Clinton is likely to win? Think again. Academic modelers don’t see her as a shoo-in.
- State senator stages pretend coup via social media. Snow day!
- Fake Hillary Clinton and the New Social Media Rules of Truth.
- Meet the man behind Rand Paul’s rise to ‘troller-in-chief’.
- Millennial Lawmaker Selfies Self Into Scandal. More trouble for Aaron Schock, this time delivered via Instagram.
- #commoncore: How Social Media is Changing the Politics of Education.
- Spanish politicians try to woo voters over WhatsApp .
- With Quorum, See What (and Who) Makes Congress Tick.
- Internet-era politics means safe seats are a thing of the past . We’ll see.
- Who Retweets Whom: How Digital And Legacy Journalists Interact on Twitter.
- Snapchat’s Ambitious Plan to Become More Powerful Than TV.
- Inside the PAC Republicans Fear Most. Hint: ActBlue.
- 5 things we learned by analysing lots and lots (and lots) of Facebook data.
- The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users.
- You Had Me At Hello: 54 Ideas For Strong Leads And Smooth Transitions in Your Appeals and Action Alerts.
- Driving ROI With High-Quality Video.
- Bring Your Social Media Program Back From the Dead.
- How the Toy Industry Association Shined Up Its Email Newsletter.
- Grassroots Stakeholders and Their Legislators: Who Is Influencing Whom? (Part 1).
- Wrap Up of Nonprofit Llama Drama. When llamas (and online markting) go wild.
- The Ultimate Email Checklist.
- How Cheap Is Digital Advertising for Advocacy?, and What is digital programmatic buying?
- For Your Consideration: How Data Analysis Was Used in Oscar Race.
- Why Data-Driven Campaigns Should Think Like Facebook.
- New .VOTE and .VOTO Domains Now Available.
- BOOKMARK THIS: Big List of Twitter Chats for Nonprofits (Chat Tools, Too!).
- CMDI and eventbrite team for data syncing app.
- [Op-Ed] We Need a Yelp for Civic Engagement to Get the 21st Century Democracy We Want.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball icon, reinvented as culture vulture.
- Progressive Group’s Former Employees File Complaint With National Labor Relations Board. More on the situation at NOI.
- Rush Limbaugh Is In Trouble, because of online activism and the persistence of digital recordings.
- American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh.
- Pranksters Trolled Russia With Nazis and a Former Porn Star, via social media.
- On the power of digital mobs.
- Students storm social media after Montclair State decides to stay open in winter weather. We don’t need no education; we need a snow day.
- And finally: Lawmaker Tries to Ban Porn from Federal Offices. That’ll work!
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– cpd