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We *can* do better: grassroots organizing against hate speech
TommyXtopher: Playboy Magazine Officially Hates Women, Conservative or Otherwise http://bit.ly/1aqcMe.* I hope other liberals join me in defending women, #tcot or not, from this crap. jointheimpact: AT&T Latest Advertiser To Leave KRXQ Confronted By Advertisers, Media and Community … UPDATE: McDonald’s Is 10th Company to Pull KRXQ Advertising http://bit.ly/ki7vc //zomg! Amazing! (via @Andy_Marra) nerdette: Join…
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Twittering in the Trenches: a workshop on social networks at #cfp09
Along with Deborah Pierce, Shireen Mitchell, and Ari Melber, I’m presenting n the Twittering in the trenches workshop today at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. If all goes well, it’ll be streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cfp09 … and the Twitter hashtag is #cfp09. Deborah’s post on the CFP blog has some background. Check it out! I’ll be…
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Do they sell #skittles at #Starbucks? (DRAFT)
Work in progress. Feedback welcome! Starbucks’ recent social network ad campaign is a great illustration of the kinds of dynamics I’ve been talking about in the Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists series. In yet another example of Twitter’s buzz-creation power, the ad campaign got coverage in the NY Times and Time even before…
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#p2 and prioritizing diversity and empowerment (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome! Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the “progressive blogosphere” — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter on The Exception #p2’s wiki, Twitter profile, and tagal.us entry all describe it as ” a resource for progressives who…
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#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)
Update, April 21: added some additional links here Amazon’s stock has recovered, bouyed by Friday’s report that Kindle sales have exceeded expectations. Traffic on the #amazonfail hashtag is much lighter. The auction for AmazonFail.com is over, at least for the time being. But I don’t think this issue’s going away quite that quickly. Right now…
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Activism at the speed of Skittles! #p2 and Ask the President (DRAFT!)
DRAFT! Work in progress, feedback welcome. Final version to appear on The Seminal.
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#askpres: lessons learned?
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…
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Ask the President: update heading into the home stretch
Ask the President (aka #askpres) has gotten brief mentions in the Politico, a second link from WashPo, and Jake Tapper tweeted about it. Momentum is building! 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…
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Mr President, do you like Skittles? (DRAFT!!!!)
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.  That’s a pretty general conclusion. So our next two installments will…
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Testing out TweetSuite
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 …
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The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter
Originally published on The Exception Co-written with Tracy Viselli. Previous draft here.
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Zuckerberg: Facebook to ratchet up exploitation, only bans “outliers”
Richard Wray, in Facebook aims to market its user data bank to businesses on guardian.co.uk: Facebook intends to capitalise on the wealth of information it has about its users by offering its 150 million-strong customer base to corporations as a market research tool. The appearance, later this year, of corporate polls targeted at certain parts…