Tag Archives: Facebook
Watson’s CauseWired
In his timely book, CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), Tom Watson tracks the growing trend of activists creatively using online media to generate new forms of involvement, support, and fundraising. Watson presents a series of case studies and anecdotes from his personal experience to analyze networked activism and provide a set of principles, as well as a few words of caution, for effective online organizing. Continue reading
Who Do You Trust?
Every single day people, arguable most, blindly accept companies’ TOS (“terms of service”). They unresistingly click “I Agree” to whatever legal jargon is in between them and their desired product or service. Why? People trust the companies have their best … Continue reading
Videos of UW Insight: The Digital President event
Facebook. Twitter. Mybarackobama.com. Text messaging. The president-elect used all of these digital tools to devastating effect in the 2008 election. How did he do it? What strategic lessons can we learn from Barack Obama’s high-tech campaign? How might he deploy … Continue reading
To Twitter, or not to Twitter.
This week, I started using Twitter after almost a year long hiatus with a few attempts in between. And now, I’m absolutely hooked. During my first class in the MCDM program, my professor encouraged us to play around with … Continue reading
HD and Online Video
Not so long ago, video experts would tell you that you didn’t need an High Definition camera if you were going to only upload your oeuvre to the Internet. Compression was so bad on sites like YouTube that your video … Continue reading
Microblogging R US
For those of you who may think Twitter is in a category of it’s own, check out the Nov 7 issue of Businessweek. A story titled Building a Better Twitter highlights the growth of the microblogging market. Twitter may have … Continue reading
Ready, Steady, Sticker
MoveOn.org teams up with Shepard Fairey in a brilliant marketing move to vitalize their organization, gain exposure, and a free large clean mailing list. Continue reading
