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...
Hint: most often, it’s not by cell phone. M&R Strategic Services updated their mobile benchmarks report today, and the results are interesting in a couple of areas. First, the rate of growth of nonprofit mobile acquisition has slowed...
More from CampaignTech: on the same panel in which Peter Greenberger talked about instant rapid response, Vox Global’s David Payne discussed integrating your influence channels when you’re trying to reach decision-makers. For instance...
Breaking news as I write this: in the face of a massive backlash, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. What happened? Komen ran into the power of citizen-activism, for one thing. Did the...
Howdy folks, on Saturday I sat down with NationBuilder’s Chief Organizer Adriel Hampton (via Skype) to talk about, well, a lot! We started with a focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd’s new education on the power of internet...
Hi folks, here’s a quick reminder: RadCampaign’s Allyson Kapin, Jeanette Russell and I will be having our “Advocacy Rising” discussion today at 4 pm at SalsaLabs. Here are the details, and I hope you can make it! Note that...
Also published on HuffingtonPost Here’s an angle that just occurred to me about today’s widespread online protests against the “Stop Online Piracy Act”: normally we talk about digital activism being HOSTED on the internet...