Author: jon

DRAFT!Â Work in progress!Â Feedback welcome … Final version to appear on The Seminal If youâ€™re joining the series already in progress: Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists introduced the series, briefly described how Skittlesâ€™ Twitter-centric viral marketing campaign caught fire, and concluded that Activists and poets â€” and anybody else who wants media…

How to vote in NetSquared challenges — voting closes Friday 3 PM Pacific time!

Apr 9, 2009

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in social computing

NetSquared is hosting the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge, both filled with great projects for people to vote on, with a total of $60,000 in funding and prizes for the winners .Â Cool!Â But … At least for me, the voting process was extraordinarily difficult; I counted 15 steps, and…

Change the way you ask for help (DRAFT)

Apr 5, 2009

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in Professional, social computing

DRAFT!Â Work in progress, feedback welcome! See the first comment for some specific questions Revised version to appear on The Ideators’ Journey, kicking off a series on collaboration and innovation, perhaps as two posts. Eve’s Ask for help makes a great introduction to a series that Mikal Lewis and I will be kicking off on…

#pxfridays, TweetLeft and #followfriday: connecting progressives on Twitter

Mar 27, 2009

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In Strategies for progressives on Twitter, Tracy Viselli and I talked about the importance of tools and techniques for flash actions on Twitter.Â Conservatives have been organizing longer and have the early lead, but I think progressives and bipartisans are starting to catch up.

Activism at the speed of Skittles! #p2 and Ask the President (DRAFT!)

Mar 26, 2009

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DRAFT! Work in progress, feedback welcome. Final version to appear on The Seminal.

#askpres: lessons learned?

Mar 24, 2009

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What are the learnings from our Ask the President experience? For me, a few off the top of the head. 1) a single page with instructions where people can vote for multiple ideas is extremely valuable for competitions like this (although our layout still needs work) 2) the combination of a twitter account (@p2pt0) and…

Ask the President: update heading into the home stretch

Mar 24, 2009

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Ask the President (aka #askpres) has gotten brief mentions in the Politico, a second link from WashPo, and Jake Tapper tweeted about it.Â Momentum is building!Â And there are other projects going on to get citizen input into White House press conferences: Jake Tapper is soliciting questions on Twitter and will read them all. He’s…

Mr President, do you like Skittles? (DRAFT!!!!)

Mar 23, 2009

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The first installment of Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists briefly described how Skittles’ Twitter-centric viral marketing campaign caught fire and concluded that one lesson is that activists without a lot of time or money should seriously consider incorporating Twitter in their plans.Â Â That’s a pretty general conclusion.Â So our next two installments will…

Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists: part 1 now posted on The Seminal!

Mar 22, 2009

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

A few weeks ago Agency.com and Skittles kicked off â€œInterweb the rainbowâ€, a brilliant marketing campaign that involved multiple social networks. The idea was simple: replace the Skittles.com home page with different social network sites. Late that Sunday evening, they set it up to show everything that people were saying on Twitter about Skittles. Everything,…

Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists, parts 1 (and 2?) (DRAFT!!!!)

Mar 21, 2009

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

DRAFT! Work in Progress!Â Feedback, please! Final version to be published in The Seminal, potentially in two parts excerpt from skittles home page, March 2009

How to promote “Ask the President” on Twitter

Mar 18, 2009

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Ask The President is launching Thursday, March 19. You can help promote it by tweeting about the site once its live, retweeting any links about it, using Twitter to ask people to vote for any questions you submit, and . And if you see other people tweeting about it, please retweet!

Launching “Ask The President” on Twitter

Mar 16, 2009

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in political, social computing, Uncategorized

Original draft March 16.Â Revised March 19. “Net movement” journalist/activist Ari Melber’s latest brainstorm, Ask the President, is launching on March 19 at http://www.communitycounts.com/Obama. Â The basic idea is to provide a followon to Change.gov’s short-lived Open for Questions series [1, 2]: a way for people to submit potential questions and vote on what they…

Testing out TweetSuite

Mar 11, 2009

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I’m testing out Dan Zarella’s TweetSuite, which includes Tweetbacks and a Tweet This button. Unfortunately, according to the comments here, it apparently only works on posts that have been created since the plugin has been installed. Â Â So I’m creating this post to test things out. We shall see …

#women2follow: collaborative empowerment on Twitter

Mar 11, 2009

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in Professional, social computing, Tales from the Net

The idea behind #Women2Follow Wednesdays is straightforward: to recognize and promote women in the technology and social media field â€” and help people find each other. If youâ€™re on Twitter, itâ€™s easy to participate.

#digg it, continued: more Twitter/digg experimental results

Mar 9, 2009

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The great thing about the #digg it experiment (trying to use Twitter to increase visibility for progressives, feminists, and women of color on Digg), is that it’s so easy to explain to people*: if you’ve got a story you’re trying to promote on Digg, include the #digg hashtag when you tweet it, and at least…

Feingold preparing to act on FISA (a Get FISA Right scoop)!

Mar 5, 2009

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Senator Feingold’s going to give the Administration â€œa few more weeksâ€ to come up with a bill to roll back the FISA amendments, and introduce his own bill if they donâ€™t. Please help get the word out — and let’s start getting ready for activism once it happens.

Gender differences in response to Skittlemania

Mar 3, 2009

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in social computing, Tales from the Net

Sunday night, Agency.com relaunched the Skittles* website as a redirect to social network sites.Â The main page showed a Twitter search for “skittles”.Â Other links went to flickr, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Hilarity ensued, with “#skittles” shooting to the #1 Twitter term for the day. With over 4000 blog posts and positive articles in the Wall…

#p2: statistics, with a gender perspective

Feb 22, 2009

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I wanted to expand on my remark in yesterday’s post about the gender ratio on #p2 staying “relatively well-balanced” with some statistics from the 24 hours ending at noon (Pacific time) today.Â While this is only one data point — and over a weekend, too — it’s roughly in line with the other measurements I’ve…

#p2 on Twitter: some thoughts after the first week

Feb 20, 2009

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