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Tag: politics
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Should Brands Wade Into the Political Fray?
In a recent post for CMSWire, I wrote about the risks for brands when they are exposed to consumer activism. These days though, brands face an additional risk when it’s their ad content itself that customers find objectionable.
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Social Media Etiquette for Our Hyper-Partisan Era
It’s been a rough few years online. We hit a new low in 2016 with displays of partisanship between friends, acquaintances and strangers. 2017 isn’t shaping up to be any better.
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Politics Are Taking a Toll on Workplace Productivity: Here's What to Do
The best digital workplace technologies are apparently no match for the fear, anxiety, anger and other politically inspired emotions fueled by what is arguably a world gone mad.
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Trump, Clinton & Tech's Take on the Polarizing US Presidential Race
The fireworks are over. The balloons are deflated and the hot dogs and beer and blueberry pies are gone. So now that America has collectively celebrated its national birthday, let's turn our attention to the future.
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Democrats Tweet, Republicans Like and Other Fun Election Facts
To hear big data master Nate Silver tell it in his FiveThirtyEight column in the New York Times, today's mid-term election is a done deal.
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Twitter Celebrates Its Seventh Birthday, Changing the World One Day at a Time
The hashtag #Twitter7 is trending today to celebrate the micro-blogging service's birthday. We take a look at the impact that a mere 140 characters from Twitter has had on the world. Tweet A Little Tweet A Twitter blog post is up celebrating the service's seventh birthday and its place in
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2012 Presidential Elections: Using Big Data and Pinterset to Pin Down Voters
If the 2008 U.S. Presidential elections were influenced by the candidates’ ability to leverage social media, in 2012 Pinterest and Big Data will be added to the mix. After all, every politician has had a website, a Twitter handle and a Facebook page for quite a while now.
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Facebook & Philippine Government Accused of Moving Fan Page Followers
Running on a platform of good governance and corruption-busting, Benigno Aquino III won the Philippine presidency by popular vote in May, 2010. Having heavily utilized social media in his campaign, Aquino's administration is now actively using social networks as feedback mechanism.
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Open Web Vancouver: Hijacked by Pirates
On January 1, 2006, Rick Falkvinge set up a web page for the Swedish Pirate Party. He mentioned the address in a single chat room, and within 24 hours he had over the 2,000 signatures he needed for the party to participate in the upcoming election.
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Blogging Down the Walls of Politics
With the Democratic National Convention well underway, bloggers have been busy covering every aspect of the political event. Hundreds of bloggers descended upon Denver on Monday and will do so into St. Paul next week for the Republican National Convention. As with the changing face of politics, both parties understand
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Web 2.0 is Changing the Face of the Political Convention
No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, most everyone can agree that how politics is covered online has changed dramatically from four years ago. With political convention season within days of peaking, the impact that online media has on coverage is hard to overlook.
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Harnessing Web 2.0 for Political Transparency?
Is it the birth of a paradigm shift? Much has been made about the transformation from the Internet from an informational distribution channel to an interactive medium. This transformation has changed much of our daily lives -- at least the online bits. Everything is changing. So it's said.
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Sunlight Labs API: Mashup Your Local Congressman
Non-profit organizations that work to change policy on the local or state levels will revel in the latest news from the Sunlight Foundation. Organizations using the open source constituent relationship management tool, CiviCRM, can now better connect their constituents and members to their elected officials, thanks to recent integration
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