Top photo via Wikipedia The Parkland students continue to amaze — just today, I read about how David Hogg launched an advertiser boycott against conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham in the few HOURS after she mocked his rejection from...
What should advocates and activists keep in mind as they try to change the world in 2018? Plenty, as Jeanette Russell and I discussed on a recent episode of Blackbaud’s Raise + Engage podcast. Among many sexy topics, we covered: Preparing for...
Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address takes place tomorrow, and with it comes a yearly tradition in the political advocacy world: SOTU rapid response. As I wrote a couple of years ago, For political communicators, this is a special...
Shortly before I headed to lovely California earlier in March, Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter Amanda Ota wrote up a long conversation we had about the White House’s social media full-court press around the nomination of Merrck Garland to...
Donald Trump may have backed down somewhat in his public spat with Pope Francis over walls and bridges, but let’s note a digital angle in all of this. As Reid Wilson pointed out on the Diane Rehm show this morning, the two infallible...
It’s the State of the Union, huzzah! For political communicators, this is a special time of year…one in which we get to earn our keep. Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big...
This piece comes to us from Jeanette Russell, a long-time Epolitics.com reader who’s now Marketing Director at Attentive.ly. Divisiveness doesn’t come about in politics just around election season — year round, there are topics...
With an eye toward today’s rapid response webinar, let’s revisit the Susan Sarandon-targeted paid sick leave campaign Beth Becker shared with us back in 2012. For more, see Political Rapid Response Now Happens in Seconds, Not Hours, In a...
Hi folks, things are hopping over here in the e.politics bunker: the consulting biz is humming, I’m doing a training for some potential candidates this weekend, the next TechBytes column is coming due, and the second webinar in the series...
The internet is a risky place to communicate: no matter what issue you’re talking about, online media bring out the ugly. Not just in politics, too, since anyone “lucky” enough to land in the news gets skewered for how he or she...