Updated January, 2011 If you want to build a following online, a good strategy is to go where the people are — and in 2011, plenty of them have flocked to online social networks, particularly (in the U.S.) on Facebook. Earlier versions of this...
Back to work! Here’s what you’ve missed the past few days: Have a Peaceful Memorial Day Week-end, Undeclared Superdelegates! Love, Arianna. Keynote presentation: Russell Simmons on how hip-hop fans build brands. Note: we’re going...
Let’s help get a better sense of what tools political professionals are using, both for advocacy and to help elect candidates: take the 2008 E-Voter Institute Survey of Political and Advocacy Communications Leaders today. Has the Internet come...
Espionage Against Pro-Tibet Groups, Others, Spurred Microsoft Patches. New Freedom, and Peril, in Online Criticism of China. In every measure, Obama clobbers Clinton online. Also, Barack Obama Takes Lion’s Share of Online Video Viewerships...
These tips are for an Advocates for Youth/Choice USA online organizing training session on April 16, 2008, and you kids can look at them in greater depth in the relevant Online Politics 101 articles, particularly the ones covering marketing and...
First fruits of RootsCampDC: time to experiment with a couple of site promotional tools. Look to the right, below the search box, and you’ll see a new content widget which you can use to put e.politics headlines on your site, blog, Facebook...
Trust in Peers Trumps the “A-List,” Study Finds. Definite implications for political marketing. Act Blue’s Record Take. They’re raking it in for candidates. Online Call Tools and the 2008 Campaign. Detroit Mayor Is Charged...
An open letter to Pat Buchanan: Hi Pat, how’s things these days? Don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but there’s this device out there now called the “internet.” An interesting idea: the ‘net can put your...
Read Scott Martin passes along a new site he’s running that tracks online advertising by the presidential candidates. The data and analysis both look good, and when I asked where the information came from, Read replied: The research I have...
Mmm, mmm, do I love me a Super Tuesday party. Or two. Or three. How the web followed the Super Tuesday results. C.f. Twitter/Twittervision/Google Maps Super Tuesday Mashup and Internet political buzz super for democracy (note quote from e.politics...