This article first appeared on the Smart As A Fox blog. Over the last five years, I’ve noticed certain text-messaging mistakes organizations consistently make. It doesn’t matter if they’ve been running their mobile programs for...
Sandi Fox is a past Epolitics.com contributor, a mobile-advocacy expert and the proprietor of Smart As A Fox, a consulting shop for progressive digital advocacy and politics. This post first appeared on the Smart As A Fox blog. Warning: Don’t...
Voters usually think about ethics in moral terms: is this candidate or official a good person or not? Are they going to look after people like me or someone who’s given them money? Can I trust them to make good decisions? Ask a voter, and she...
This post originally ran on Epolitics.com on October 4, 2017. Let’s reread it now in the light of this week’s Manafort redaction disaster, in which we learned that Trump’s onetime campaign manager had passed polling data to a...
If you’ve wondered whether or not to take campaign cybersecurity and digital trickery seriously, this week should dispel your doubts. Just in the past few days, we’ve found out that: Russian hackers targeted Senate staff and conservative...
Down in New Orleans, a proposed natural gas-fired power plant is in serious trouble — in part because the energy company behind it got caught creating a fake grassroots campaign. To counter local organizing against its project, Entergy hired a...
Tom Steyer likes me. He really does! He likes me so much that he emailed me out of the blue late yesterday afternoon: Subject: Live from Times Square: IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP If you happened to be walking around Times Square today, like countless...
If you caught Donald Trump’s Phoenix rally tonight, have a stiff drink — I think we could all use one. The speech itself was a parade of lies, distortions, omissions and outright madness, though I will point out that the President...
Patient: Reported on SXSW Music Festival Day 3 (of 4), overall SXSW Festival Day 8 Diagnosis: SXSW Syndrome Symptoms: Subject displays a wide array of SXSW-related symptoms. They include: perpetual squint, even with sunglasses on. Jeans worn three...
Woe be unto us all if you watch this: A YouTube video of a kitten watching a YouTube video of a kitten? Duuuuuuuude, that’s meta. When the internet simply Cannot Handle This and implodes, taking The Entire Universe with it, blame Burt Edwards...