As part of December’s Netroots NY, I got to run a couple of trainings with Abigail Collazo, one on Twitter and the other on internet fundraising. For each training, I put together takeaway tip sheets; the one for fundraising is below. You can...
Guest article! Experienced digital organizer Laura Packard (of PowerThru Consulting) has some great specifics on converting Facebook followers into email list-members, and vice versa. This article originally appeared on PowerThru Consulting’s...
Hi y’all, your editor was a bit under the weather a week or two back and almost let three good stories slip through the cracks. Never fear — they’re brought back from the dead below, appropriately enough on the night before...
Hey kids, I hope you fellow East Coasters survived our recent back-to-back disasters, but don’t forget, an earthquake followed by a hurricane means only one thing — be ready for a rain of blood and toads soon. But if that or any other...
Our own Beth Becker sent around an email earlier this week that she received from Manan Trevedi, a Democrat challenging Republican Jim Gerlach for the second time in a suburban Philadelphia congressional district: Dear Beth, Over the past week...
Here’s a quick example of using the strengths of one medium to reinforce another, in this case to boost your message’s chances of viral spread: MoveOn.org capitalized on David Axelrod and John Kerry’s use of the phrase “Tea...
If you’re into reading legislation yourself (zzzzzzz), the House Rules committee has now published the text of the proposed budget deal in both PDF and XML formats — apparently, the committee staff stayed up late to take care of the...
Guess what: people tend to give money when they’re all riled up. This week’s example? When Republican Rep. Allen West blew up via email at Democratic colleague Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Tuesday, saying, “You are the most vile...
Words of wisdom from RadCampaign’s Allyson Kapin, a friend and colleague in the online politics world: Of course, this isn’t new advice (parts of it are also in the list-building and social network chapters of Online Politics 101), but...
An unexpected gift arrived in my email inbox this evening: an invitation (subject line: “Invitation”) to join Newt Gingrich’s email list: As you may have heard, I am an official candidate for president of the United States. But I...