Continuing our recent stroll through the halls of digital politics memory, let’s go back this week to the early earliest days of social advocacy. Friendster may have been a ghost and Facebook a glimmer on the horizon when Epolitics.com...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. A special note to our readers-via-email: be sure to click through to the online version of this...
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws. Illegal coordination via anonymous Twitter accounts? More: GOP Operatives Use Twitter To Hide In Plain Sight. How Facebook plans to become one of the most powerful tools in politics. C.f. Facebook...
Hi folks, with Epolitics.com well into its ninth(!) year of publishing, we’ve seen more changes in digital politics and advocacy in these pages than I can even remember. So let’s start reliving The Way Things Were in the Old Days in true...
On Giving Tuesday, let’s look back at Allyson Goldsmith’s guide to planning year-end fundraising for an advocacy group or nonprofit…first published back in August. Procrastinators, You still have time! I just got brought in to...
Check out the 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: Black Friday pushback, love for the troops and one chillin’ bird. A...
The 2014 elections are behind us, but the post-mortems are still flowing fast. The latest edition of “Technology Bytes” got a jump on the competition, though, with a pre-mortem (I filed the column late in October) look at the two key...
For Democrats, Turnout Efforts Look Successful (Though Not Elections). State-by-state comparison shows the results, but Dems still lost. C.f. DCCC Touts Historic Fundraising, Advertising. Only problem: that whole “winning” thing. How Big...
Follow regular Epolitics.com contributor Allyson Goldsmith on Twitter at @allyson8765. I hear the same advice at practically every digital strategy conference and event I attend — test everything. In principle I agree with this advice, but...
A few weeks ago I asked if the 2014 elections would expose the limits of political campaigning, and guess what: they did. Democrats busted their butts on the ground this year, and unlike 2010, they didn’t lose for lack of trying. Even before...