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...
New contributor! Dmytrø Bilash is a long-time Epolitics.com reader based in Kyiv whom I got to meet in person on a trip to Ukraine last fall. He’s an entrepreneur focused on marketing technologies and the co-founder of Captain Growth, which...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Though I know him from his Campaigns & Elections days, Jordan Lieberman now serves as the political and public affairs lead for Audience Partners, an Altice Company. Have we reached Peak Cookie? Political...
Last week, Donald Trump announced that Brad Parscale, his 2016 digital director, would serve as manager for the President’s 2020 reelection campaign. It’s a milestone of sorts: the first time that a digital strategist has been named...
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...
Facebook’s algorithm is changing again! Publishers are freaking out at the thought of losing news feed access, but Beth Becker has good advice for organizations and campaigns that still want to give their content the best chance of reaching...
Tom Steyer likes me. He really does! He likes me so much that he emailed me out of the blue late yesterday afternoon: Subject: Live from Times Square: IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP If you happened to be walking around Times Square today, like countless...
If you’re running for office in 2018, what should you be doing right now? Former Congressional candidate Andy Millard and I talked through that question in detail on the sidelines of C&E’s CampaignExpo conference a couple of weeks...
New Epolitics.com contributor Dr. Jeff Swift is the author of “Digital Community Organizing: Why Political Power Must be Shared, Not Stored”, which outlines practical strategies for using digital media to build powerful networks. The...
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...