Congraulations to the communications folks at Planned Parenthood Action!* According to Crowdtangle, they won the internet last night with a Facebook post dinging the official Republican response to the State of the Union: Post by Planned Parenthood...
The following is an excerpt from the new ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates”, available in the Amazon store for the Kindle e-reader and as a PDF here on...
The following is an excerpt from the new ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates”, available in the Amazon store for the Kindle e-reader and as a PDF here on...
We’ve been a little hard on Facebook lately, what with the pay-to-play future and today’s obsession with Engagement. So let’s switch tack and look at a reason that political and advocacy campaigns benefit from building a Facebook...
A quick follow-up to today’s earlier post about Facebook’s increasingly “pay-to-play” environment for Page owners: let’s put Facebook “engagement” (in raw form, the number of Likes, Shares, Comments and...
Also check out the follow-on article, “Facebook Engagement is NOT an End in Itself.” We’ve covered this trend before, but look to for it to accelerate in the New Year: Facebook pay-to-play. Remember all that time, energy and (quite...
Guest article! This piece comes from Abe Greenhouse and is adapted from An Activist’s Guide to Live Tweeting, originally published on Middle East news and analysis site Electronic Intifada. Lots of great advice below — don’t miss...
Guest article! This piece comes in from Ryan Donovan, Media Coordinator at DDC Advocacy. The topic’s a little unusual for Epolitics.com, since it’s about sports and social media rather than politics, but it’s a chance to learn from...
So, did you hear about the White House national security staffer who got fired over his private Twitter account? Apparently the bosses didn’t much like what he was posting, and once they finally figured out who he was, he was out the door. If...
Remember those creative advocacy campaigns we talked about last week? A couple of them illustrated a dirty little secret to Facebook success: if you want to get your content widely shared, and you have an email list, send out a message asking people...