IDI’s Blogger Relations Blog has a good checklist of things to consider before your organization or campaign starts a blog. Who’s going to maintain it? What topics are encouraged and what are off-limits? Will you allow comments? And, of...
As Steve Rubel noted a couple of days ago, and as I touched on at the end of the e.politics section on building and maintaining email lists, younger people are using IM, blogs and social networking sites as a replacement for email, which they...
Just back from a presentation by the New Politics Institute. I’ll post the video link as soon as they provide it, but in the meantime, here are a couple of quick takeaways: The rise of cable, Tivo and the internet fragments media audiences and...
It’s a tag-team deathmatch right here on our beloved internets: Wal-Mart hits its union detractors with a site called Paidcritics.com (with headlines just a hair short of an Onion parody), and the unions return fire with the finest URL yet...
To supplement the overview of email list building and management, here’s a list of list managment and customer/constituent relations management software vendors. Most of these companies have been around for quite a while and have good track...
Debbie Weil, local (DC) blogger and marketing expert extraordinaire, will be previewing her new book on corporate blogging at the 4th Estate (as Debbie has quite helpfully corrected from my original post — I wrote the wrong location) near...
Back in May, I went to an excellent presentation sponsored by Fleishman Hillard and the DC Communicator newsletter. Aimed mostly at corporate P.R. types, it was titled “Beyond Blogging 2006” and focused on P.R. in a world where bloggers...
Last week’s launch announcement for Hotsoup.com, particularly Howard Kurtz’s profile in the Post, cast my mind back to some other erstwhile political portals that have come and gone in the past 10 years. Kurtz mentions Grassroots.com and...
So your organization has a MySpace site — great, one more chunk of text to edit constantly or let fall out of date. You could restrict your content to evergreen background about your issues, but wouldn’t it be better to have news...
I haven’t been to any NetSquared events before, but the topic’s certainly timely. What: NetSquared DC- July Meeting When: Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 7:00 PM Where: Science Club 1136 19th St NW Washington , DC 20036 202-775-0747 Description:...