Though he was against it before he was for it, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has now embraced Twitter with glee and vigor, rising to become the most-followed person in his country within days. Of course, Twitter’s a natural choice for a public...
This question’s come up a couple of times lately, most recently when I was meeting with a group of Maryland political candidates last week — should political campaigns focus their online advertising on Google or Facebook? The answer, of...
[Now Updated — see below] In the company’s never-ending quest to monopolize our attention online, Facebook has now unveiled an entirely new feature: “Community Pages” on popular topics. What’s the difference between a...
One excellent point from today’s Politics Online panel on email advocacy and fundraising: James Wong described email as the hub around which the social media world revolves. What did he mean? Without email, most social tools like Facebook and...
Below are links to articles related to a social media presentation today at an American Psychological Association conference — enjoy. Reaching the “Network Influentials” Digital-Age Media Relations: Pitching Stories in a...
Here’s an idea from my NMS colleague Soren Dayton (R) — once you’ve built a core following for a Facebook Fan Page, try buying ads targeting the friends (and friends-of-friends) of your initial base. Since humans as a species tend...
Whew, talk about one hell of a week: the new day job heated up almost as fast as the weather cooled down, as DC smothered under the arrival of several feet of snow since Friday. Today was extra-fun, with blizzard-strength winds blowing so much...
Earlier in the week, we saw how Charles Lenchner is using the document hosting/distribution site Posterus to help track MoveOn.org emails, and already we get to check out another cool advocacy-related way to put the site to use, in this case by Josh...
Though the New Year’s formally begun, we still have plenty of time for some 2009 retrospection. ClickZ’s Kate Kaye provides the latest installment, beginning with her own observations about what mattered in digital politics in the past...