New contributor! Crystal Borde is an associate director at Vanguard Communications, and she joins us with great insights about last week’s congressional live-streaming extravaganza, along with tips for communicators inspired to follow in the...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Alex Dickinson is Director & Chief of Staff with Beekeeper Group. Follow her on Twitter at @alexmae, and be sure to check out last week’s big-picture analysis of the Congressional live-streaming. Remember...
Hi folks, busy times! In the last six weeks, I’ve done somewhere between 15 and 20 trainings, panels, presentations, webinars and podcasts, which is one reason these pages have been tragically empty lately. But I’ll make it up to you:...
This post first appeared on the InterAction blog. Do you want to succeed at online advocacy? Of course you do! Fortunately, thousands of us have been toiling away in this field for years. In the process, we’ve done just about everything wrong...
So you’ve mastered Facebook and Twitter and you’re ready to branch out and try some new social media tricks. You’ve heard a lot about Instagram and all your friends use it. But, what can an organization or campaign do to be...
New Epolitics.com contributor Will Coley is the founder of AquiferMedia.com. To measure the online influence of your organization or campaign, it’s not enough to simply count your followers on social media. That’s part of the argument in...
Regular Epolitics.com contributor and online fundraising pro Laura Packard joins us again with some key best practices to help you optimize your digital giving campaigns. Laura and her PowerThru Consulting colleagues have learned these lessons...
ActionSprout’s Kim Blomgren writes up a presentation by our own Beth Becker. Way to get someone else to do the hard part, Beth. 😉 Recently Beth Becker and ActionSprout hosted a webinar addressing how to make Facebook’s algorithm work for...
Here’s a tip from Facebook’s Crystal Patterson, delivered in a Rootscamp session in December: try posting some of your Facebook content in the evening, when many Americans now watch TV with second (or third) screens close at hand...
Facebook really, really wants you to post your videos directly to your Page rather than publishing a link to the same video on YouTube. How much do they want you to do it? According to our old friend Beth Becker, and based on her experience running...