Tag: p2
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#mooreandme and #p2: learnings for progressives on Twitter (REVISED DRAFT)
Draft, work in progress. Feedback welcome! Last updated February 5. Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the “progressive blogosphereâ€. Demographically and stylisticly, Twitter is far less male-dominated than the big blogs of the progressive blogosphere … — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on…
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#p2 and prioritizing diversity: background reading for Thursday’s tweeting
#p2 tweeting* Thursday April 30 7-8PM Pacific/10-11PM Eastern Draft agenda and discussion here Please join us! 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 is a resource for progressives who…
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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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#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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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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#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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Dealing with trolls on Twitter: #p2, #tcot, #topprog, #bipart, and a magic search query
One of the challanges with using Twitter for activism is one that’s all too familiar to anybody who’s spent time online: dealing with trolls and other disruptions.*Â Twitter hashtags are completely open, so anybody can post on them, which means we frequently see tweets like: I should also state that some sissy liberal might find…