A few weeks back, I was fortunate enough to get to bring joy to many of my friends’ lives, if just for a brief moment. How? By posting a story to Facebook that included a preview image…which got cropped in an unintentionally hilarious...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. A great way to see content that’s working for a variety of different advocacy campaigns. A...
A day late, but still ready to rumble. Why political fundraising emails represent everything that’s wrong with our politics. C.f. DCCC, I’m pleading with you and the recent Epolitics.com piece by Dave Leichtman and Brett Schenker. How...
Dave Leichtman is the Democratic Strategist for Microsoft’s Campaign Tech Services and the Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Read Dave’s previous work on Epolitics.com. As Colin noted last week, much hay has been...
A nice distinction came up in a conversation earlier this week: writing good headlines and subject lines is a creative art, but picking the right ones to use is pure science. Good headlines walk a tricky path in the digital world: they have to feed...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 700 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: lots of love for Germany’s new college funding plan, several new voices on...
Mark Ryland of Amazon Web Services made a fun observation at a Tech@State presentation this afternoon: if you add the word “cloud” to any technology marketing effort, it becomes much significantly cooler. Cloudwashing! I love it–...
New feature! Regular Epolitics.com contributor and friend-of-the-site Beth Becker has just launched a “Political Social Grab Bag” email newsletter, and she’s been kind enough to share it with us. Rock and roll! I’ve excerpted...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: for those about to rant, we salute you! A special note to our readers-via-email:...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: an apt jab at the iPhone 6 madness. Plus, anybody out there speak Finnish? 1...