Also published on Medium.com as Digital Beachheads: How to Use Facebook to Build Progressive Support in Trump Country You don’t always get to pick your battlefields when you want to change a country. For progressives, many of our policy and...
Tonight’s nonprofit tech trends discussion is going to rock, and I hope you can make it in person. Either way, take a look at the articles below, which go into depth around several points I hope to bring up during the conversation. What do YOU...
Recognizing talent when they see it, House Democrats recently held a Twitter training featuring a star freshman member, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her day-to-day tweets show what the medium can do in the hands of someone who mastered it in her...
Another thought inspired by Priorities USA’s decision to put a digital expert in charge of ALL paid media: when organizations choose managers from the digital campaigning world, they’re more likely to be looking at women and people of...
Big news from one of the big spenders on the Independent Expenditure side of Democratic campaigning: Priorities USA Action, the top Democratic super PAC targeting President Donald Trump in 2020, is promoting its head of digital operations to a new...
With candidates like Elizabeth Warren snapping up talent and building capacity fast, the Democratic race for president is now well underway. Except for a handful of media stars like Warren, Biden, Beto or Sanders, the biggest problem for most...
“The Russian influence campaigns often pour gasoline on a fire that is already burning,†said Simon Rosenberg, who worked to counter disinformation for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “It is far more efficient and effective to...
This piece is adapted from Chapter Five of the 2018 edition of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World — and Win Elections. See also an earlier excerpt, “Ten Big Trends in Digital Politics & Advocacy”. For more on...
Adapted from Chapter Three of How to Use the Internet to Change the World — and Win Elections. Download your copy today. This piece is also published on Medium.com. Most of this book will dive deeply into the tools and tactics of digital...
In my latest piece for Blackbaud’s npENGAGE blog (last of a series of four articles), we walk through the options around a common nonprofit communications conundrum: A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook...