Guest article! Good advice from our friend Laura Packard at PowerThru Consulting on how organizations and campaigns can use online advocacy to build their lists. For another recent example of this practice, see the success of NAACP’s Trayvon...
The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman verdict dominated the news this weekend, with the internet no exception. Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman...
Good stuff dropped into the e.politics bunker today — a new nonprofit online video benchmarks report, put together by the folks at See3, YouTube and Edelman. I just pulled down my own PDF copy of “Into Focus: Benchmarks for Nonprofit...
Karen Tumulty captured an interesting internet-fueled dynamic around Rand Paul’s Senate filibuster last week: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) created a sensation Wednesday by railing for nearly 13 hours straight in the Senate chamber against the Obama...
Here’s a bit of a coup for our friends at POPVOX.com, who were also featured in that recent “50 Hottest” list in BusinessInsider: when advocates use the POPVOX site to post documents supporting or opposing legislation, they now go...
Guest article! We normally don’t run many pieces submitted by vendors here at Epolitics.com, but the article below looks at a fascinating development in government relations — the use of data mining to identify organizations’...
Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of going on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show, and as always we had a great conversation. We ranged all over the place, from the nature of social media as a domain of niches, to the nature of mass...
Updated below. So now we know — Obama For America will relaunch as a political nonprofit. People had been speculating about the future of Obama’s grassroots juggernaut for months, particularly since the campaign started surveying its...
Our friends over at SalsaLabs have launched a new online advocacy how-to site called Advocacy Unleashed, which sounds a little like a bad movie sequel about a vengeful community organizer but is actually a very nice collection of articles about our...
Welcome to Washington, 113th Congress! How’d you know that 13 is my lucky number? But a new Congress isn’t terribly lucky news for digital advocates, because for at least a few weeks, the newbies won’t be hearing from us...