Category Archives: Digital Politics
New Insights into Communicating with Congress
In the latest installment of the Congressional Management Foundation’s Communicating with Congress research series, CMF has teamed up with A More Perfect Union to update its survey-based research on how congressional staff view online communications between Congress and its Constituents. Of particular note in this report is staffers’ views of social media. In particular, staffers …
The Reboot Presents: Citizen 2.0: Social Media and the Future of Participatory Government
My good friend and former colleague Zack Brisson and his new firm The Reboot has organized a great panel for the NYC component of Social Media Week called “Citizen 2.0: Social Media and the Future of Participatory Government.” It is at noon, February 7, 2011 in NYC at at The Paley Center for Media. The …
Internet Advocacy Roundtable
The Internet Advocacy Roundtable was launched in August 2005 as a forum for discussing cutting edge strategies for using the internet to influence policy and politics. Next Event: February 8, 2011 Over the years, the scope has expanded to include the intersection of digitally networked media, politics, policy and non-profits. We have featured some of …
I’m Back
Well, after a long struggle with a hacker and an old version of WordPress… all is back up and working here. Look for the posts to start flowing. Alan
@MobWorld SPAMs Twitter at Expense of Unwitting Players
I am writing to strongly object to abusive SPAM schemes perpetrated by Twitter users like @MobWorld. If you look at @MobWorld’s website http://www.playmobsterworld.com/ you will see that in very small, light colored text underneath a VERY LARGE RED PLAY NOW BUTTON they write: By clicking the Click to Play Now button, you are confirming you …
What Brown Did Online in MA to Win
Here are a couple interesting articles talking about how Scott Brown was able to better leverage the web for his campaign than Martha Coakley. First, Mindy Finn and Patrick Ruffini give the overview: Scott Brown’s supporters became fans of the candidate on Facebook, where they commented on his status updates and uploaded their own photos. …
Event 1/27/2010: The Ethics of Grassroots Advocacy (at GWU)
From Stephanie Vance, Advocacy Guru: I want to let you know about an important upcoming event that may have the potential to change how you conduct citizen-based advocacy campaigns. On Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 from 8:30am to 12:30pm, George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management will be hosting a forum on the ethics of …
Leveraging Social Media for Online Advocacy
I recently gave a lecture at American University’s Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute on how to use social media and other online strategies for advocacy. You can watch it here.
