With an eye toward today’s rapid response webinar, let’s revisit the Susan Sarandon-targeted paid sick leave campaign Beth Becker shared with us back in 2012. For more, see Political Rapid Response Now Happens in Seconds, Not Hours, In a...
Congratulations to our friends at the Campaign Workshop! Today they issued their second ebook, this one a top-to-bottom guide to conducting advocacy campaigns: Advocacy is all about creating the right message, getting it to the right targets, and...
A big trend I’m watching these days: the growing ability of online marketers and advocates to aim their online messages more and more specifically, often down to the household or individual level. We’ve covered various aspects of...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: lot of love for Labor A special note to our readers-via-email: be sure to click...
Hi folks, things are hopping over here in the e.politics bunker: the consulting biz is humming, I’m doing a training for some potential candidates this weekend, the next TechBytes column is coming due, and the second webinar in the series...
Snow day? We’ve got you covered! Yesterday, friend-of-Epolitics Jason Lefkowitz sent around a link to a great little post from Yahoo Technology: Corporate Twitter F#@!up Bingo. How often do we see the people who run Twitter accounts for...
How a Ragtag Band of Activists Won the Battle for Net Neutrality . Jeb Bush’s new web chief scrambles to erase embarrassing tweets about gays and women. Also, hateful, rude, etc., and c.f. Jeb Bush’s New Chief Of Tech Has Female Trouble:...
Provocative title, eh? Here’s what I’m getting at: in a Citizens United world, one in which individual wealthy people can poor billions of dollars into our political process at will, digital campaigners (particularly on the Left) feel...
My email inbox was buzzing this morning with reaction to turmoil at the New Organizing Institute, a major provider of digital, field and data training for staff of Democratic campaigns and liberal advocacy groups. As Buzzfeed’s Evan McMorris...
Hi folks, I had the pleasure of going on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show this week, and as always we had a terrific conversation. This time we talked about several things that have been recent obsessions on Epolitics.com, including...