Sarah DiJulio with M&R Strategic Services has some excellent tips for converting traditional offline members into online activists. Switching members from snailmail to email for many communications has the obvious advantage of lowering mailing...
Slate points this afternoon to a post on MyDD from shortly before the midterm election that looks at lefty bloggers’ attempts to googlebomb Republican candidates. What’s a googlebomb? A concerted effort to influence the search ranking of...
So, you’ve launched that blog you’ve always been dreaming of and now you want someone to actually, you know, read it. How do you build traffic to a blog, whether it’s a personal project or a site written for an organization...
Gaming the Search Engine, in a Political Season. The Times takes on Google-bombing. Both the Times and the Post have articles looking at political uses of online video, with the Times focusing more on home-made video and the power of viral spread...
Sanford Dickert, former Kerry campaign CTO, has launched a great new site called PoliticalWarez to look at the technology of online politics. From the site’s mission statement: PoliticalWarez is Politics 2.0. Our mission is to identify...
Hey kids! I’m off for a few days, heading to Kansas to see what’s wrong with the place (hint: it’ll involve a serious shortage of liquor once we’re through with the joint). Two of my best friends are getting married to each...
Micropersuasion reports that search engine marketing company Spannerworks has put out a PDF guide to social media, covering blogs, podcasts, social networks, content communities and Second Life. It’s more of a quick overview than an in-depth...
“Online Politics 101: The Tools and Tactics of Online Political Advocacy” gathers the e.politics how-to articles into one conveniently packaged (and free) publication. Each chapter contains a link to the live version on epolitics.com...
Now in the Amazon Store! Download for Kindle. “Online Politics 101: The Tools and Tactics of Online Political Advocacy” gathers the e.politics how-to articles into one conveniently packaged publication. Each chapter contains a link to...
A conversation yesterday on the Progressive Exchange email list was both a pleasure to read and the source of some expert advice on the best ways to boost a campaign or issue’s profile in the blogosphere. A list member got things started by...