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Social Advocacy and Politics: Twitter and the Bully Pulpit

The truth is that Boeing will ultimately build two airplanes, but its current contract is only $170 million. The finished planes will have missile defense systems, an onboard operating room, the ability to survive an EMP, and will effectively be able to serve as a war command centers in the sky. And

Social Advocacy and Politics: Are Hashtags Amusing Us to Death?

This has certainly been the most bizarre Presidential race in modern history. From all of the pundits failed predictions of Donald Trump’s demise in the primaries, to his bragging about his physical endowment during a Republican candidate debate, this campaign season has been crazy – and looking

How Will Facebook’s New Algorithm Impact Candidate and Advocacy Group Pages?

Last week Facebook announced that it had once again updated its News Feed algorithm, this time to prioritize our friends’ profile posts over Page posts. What this means is that posts from Pages will be pushed further down on your News Feed, making it less likely you’ll see

Social Advocacy and Politics: Dirty Social Politics v. Authentic Social Media Campaigns

Recent revelations regarding the prolific use of dirty social media tricks to rig Latin American political campaigns once again shine a light on the seamy underbelly of social advocacy and politics. And as I have previously discussed here with respect to using Wikipedia for political purposes and

Social Advocacy and Politics: Trump’s Social Media to Ground Game Conversion Factor

By now you probably know that I think there is a conversion factor between social media touches and votes. Just as campaign consultants have their conversion numbers for the number of door knocks, yard signs, handshakes and baby kisses are needed to secure one vote, there is