So, you want to give a training at Netroots Nation? Great! In order to create the most well-rounded agenda possible for NN12, we’re asking members of the community like you to help us develop and organize the sessions. Check out this post for tips on what people are interested in learning and how you can craft a good session.
Are you using Facebook Timeline for your personal Facebook profile yet? Even if you aren’t, many people are. And, as Timeline continues to become more popular, organizations are starting to think about how they can use it to promote their causes.
It may be hard to accept, but failure is one the keys to having success with new media.
For many organizers, the world of social media can be a scary place—full of good intentions turned sour, PR disasters, out-of-control messages, haters and trolls. However, with a little strategic planning and a willingness to put yourself out there, it can also be a land of passionate supporters turned advocates, touching stories turned media hits and petitions that spread like wildfire.
Who owns your twitter followers? Alan Rosenblatt asked this important question today in Big Think’s Digital Politics blog. The answer isn’t as cut and dried as one might expect.
A lot of what you read out there implies that you can create an account on various social networks, follow a few best practices and then you’re all set. What you don’t usually read about are the costs involved in doing it right.
My first introduction to new media happened in a conference room in DC in 2006. Huge thanks to Pete Leyden, then director of the New Politics Institute and his keynote (hadn’t heard of it) presentation on the monumental changes taking place in technology, media and demographics. Part of NDN’s new tools campaign to help “progressives understand the transformation of politics” was, quite frankly, stunning.
