Category: political
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Twitter *is* a strategy (UPDATED draft)
DRAFT! Work in progress. Feedback welcome! Update, April 27: This thread sparked and tied in with substantial discussion elsewhere — see the bottom of the main post for additional links. I developed my thoughts in Cognitive evolution and revolution, which I presented at Politics Online; the blog post and comments also document a couple of…
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Cognitive evolution and revolution, part 1: #polc09 and a #diversityfail
Opening slide from early draft of Hashtags at #polc09 Politics Online (1, 2) was a great conference, at least from my perspective. Starting with the opening session by Secretaries of State Debra Bowen and Jennifer Brunner, every session I went to had great content.  It was a wonderful opportunity to meet friends and colleagues in-person,…
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Guest-blogging mania! New posts on Twitter activism and innovation
I’ve got a couple of new guest-blog posts up elsewhere: Skittles and infowar: #pman, disinformation, and trolls on The Seminal continues the “Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists” series, focusing on the Moldovan protests. This week’s lesson: Expect interference — and have a plan to deal with it. I posted an earlier draft here;…
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My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail
Clay’s post The failure of #amazonfail admits that over the weekend, he jumped to conclusions, “believed things that weren’t true” about Amazon and was “intoxicated” by the hashtag. He now thinks he was wrong. Most of the post is written in the first person plural, assuming everybody else reacted as he did. He concludes that…
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Disinformation, trolls, and #pman: more serious than Skittles (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome … Final version to appear on The Seminal If you’re joining the series already in progress: Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists introduced the series, briefly described how Skittles’ Twitter-centric viral marketing campaign caught fire, and concluded that Activists and poets — and anybody else who wants media…
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#pxfridays, TweetLeft and #followfriday: connecting progressives on Twitter
In Strategies for progressives on Twitter, Tracy Viselli and I talked about the importance of tools and techniques for flash actions on Twitter. Conservatives have been organizing longer and have the early lead, but I think progressives and bipartisans are starting to catch up.
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Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists: part 1 now posted on The Seminal!
A few weeks ago Agency.com and Skittles kicked off “Interweb 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,…
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Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists, parts 1 (and 2?) (DRAFT!!!!)
DRAFT! Work in Progress! Feedback, please! Final version to be published in The Seminal, potentially in two parts excerpt from skittles home page, March 2009
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How to promote “Ask the President” on Twitter
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!
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Launching “Ask The President” on Twitter
Original draft March 16. 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.  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…
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#digg it, continued: more Twitter/digg experimental results
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…
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Feingold preparing to act on FISA (a Get FISA Right scoop)!
Senator Feingold’s going to give the Administration “a few more weeks†to come up with a bill to roll back the FISA amendments, and introduce his own bill if they don’t. Please help get the word out — and let’s start getting ready for activism once it happens.
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#p2: statistics, with a gender perspective
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. While this is only one data point — and over a weekend, too — it’s roughly in line with the other measurements I’ve…
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#p2 on Twitter: some thoughts after the first week
#p2 Twitterchat Monday (2/23), 6:30 PM Pacific/9:30 PM Eastern. Tentative agenda here. Feedback, please … and hope to see you then! It’s been an encouraging first week for the new #p2 Twitter hashtag that Tracy Viselli and I proposed in The Exception last Friday. Usage has steadily increased (more people, more tweets), especially after Sarah…
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Feedback, please on draft recommendations: how progressives can use Twitter strategically
Tracy Viselli and I are working on an article for The Exception on how progressives can use Twitter. Here’s our current thinking on recommendations: progressives should get good at Twitter best practices: insiders providing information regularly, backchannels at conferences and workshops, regular Twitter-based chats by organizations and bloggers, contact lists and skills pitching to journalists…
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Get FISA Right to meet with Sen. Feingold! (maybe) Help wanted.
One of our topics Saturday’s conference call (notes here) was how to make contact with our allies in congress. Jean from Green Bay mentioned that she and a couple of other people were going to go to one of Senator Russ Feingold’s upcoming Listening Meeting in Wisconsin. The first opportunity is this Saturday on Valentine’s…
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#digg it!: initial experimental results — and let’s try it again!
please digg, retweet, and follow on twitter Update, 2:30 PM: please also digg and retweet the Nordstrom action alert Update 4:30 PM: Jen Nedeau’s Can social media save the day? has more Last Friday’s #Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter experiment went remarkably well for a first attempt. …
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How progressives can use Twitter: a strategic perspective (DRAFT)
DRAFT, CURRENTLY BEING REVISED SUBSTANTIALLY.  New recommendations here. Thanks all for the feedback! Final version to appear in The Exception. Collaboratively authored with Tracy Viselli.
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#Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Revised version published on Reno and its Discontents. Thanks all for the feedback. And please, digg it!
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“Dailyish updates” (draft post for The Seminal)
Draft. Work in progress — feedback welcome! The revised version will (hopefully) be posted on The Seminal