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Leveraging Social Media for Online Organizing & Advocacy
Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D.
Twitter: @CAPAction and @DrDigipol
Facebook.com/AmericanProgressAction
Facebook.com/DrDigipol
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What tools should we use to reach our audience?
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Email No Longer King
• Across US, Europe, Australia, and Japan, 279.5 million people use email (August 2009)• Up 21% since August 2008
• 301.5 million use social networks (August 2009)• Up 31% since August 2008
• Email use may be on the rise, but it is falling further behind social networks everyday
Wall Street Journal, Oct. 12, 2009
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Email v. Social Media
Social
Media
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Implications for Organizing & Advocacy
• If you are not using social media in addition to email, your messages will• Not reach your audience, at best• Anger your audience, at worse
• Online campaign tools are in the hands of your audience and they are often better using them than you
• If you anger your audience by not respecting there preferred communication channel, you risk counter campaigns
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CAP/Action uses social media
• Goal: Get our ideas into the hands of people with influence
• How: Use Twitter, Facebook. Email, Phone, etc. to distribute our reports, videos, and actions to press, policymakers, bloggers, advocacy organizers, & social network influential's
• Tactics:• Recruit the right audience• Create reciprocal and reinforcing relationship• Package message accessibly: video, photos, short essays,
easy actions
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@Katulis live Tweets
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Expert Source
@CAPAction
Retweets
OrganizationAmplifies
Network Influentials
Policymakers
Social Networker
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Online Organizer
sBloggers
Policy Profession
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Influentials
@DrdigipolRetweets
@MattYglesias
Retweets
@LarryKorbRetweets
CAP StaffAmplifies
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Leveraging Blogs
• Commenting on articles• Posting guest articles
• Op-Eds• Guest blog posts
• Diaries and blog communities• Pitching stories
• To mainstream media• To bloggers
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Leveraging Social Web
• Social Networks• Facebook (Growing older audience)• MySpace (Gathering pace for workers)• Twitter (27 million, where the influentials are)
• Social Media• YouTube• Flickr• Eventful
• Advocacy• Act.ly (Twitter petitions)• ThePetitionSite.com
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Leveraging Social Media
• Tools to manage your programHootSuite.com – team workflow, stats, schedule
tweets, brand monitoring,Tweetdeck.com – organize your views (desktop
application)
• Measuring your influenceBit.ly – Measuring click throughsTwitalyzer.com – channel and brand influence
• Managing your Twitter followersTwellow.com – Mutual and non-mutual friends
• Search – Identifying hashtags and influentialsSearch.Twitter.com
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Twitter Hashtags – Reaching beyond your followers• Ideology
• Progressives - #p2 #topprog #tpot #rebelleft• Conservatives - #tcot #tlot
• Issues• Employee Free Choice Act - #efca• Climate/Energy - #green• Health Care Reform - #hcr
• Actions• Digging - #digg
• Cross-conversations• Cross-ideology - #topprog #tcot (#tlot)• Targeted actions - #digg #p2
• Make up your own hashtags (Events, Issues)
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Leveraging Social Media for Online Organizing & Advocacy
Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D.
Twitter: @CAPAction and @DrDigipol
Facebook.com/AmericanProgressAction
Facebook.com/DrDigipol