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By Craig Howie, Los Angeles Times Twitter, Facebook, Google and Foursquare all did their bit for democracy Tuesday with election-themed widgets and services appearing on their pages. Facebook featured an online vote counter, which appears at the top of a user’s feed and allows users to click to say they voted, which earns them an […]...
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By Dan Zarella, DanZarella.com With the 2010 midterm elections coming up on Tuesday, I decided to look into the correlation of candidates Twitter accounts and their recent performance in polls. I gathered a random sample of 30 senate, house and governor races from RealClearPolitics database of recent election polls and gathered each the number of […]...
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By Anthony Calabrese, MediaShift PBS If 2008 was the year that social networks like Facebook and Twitter broke through to mainstream America, then 2010 is shaping up to be the election year that’s defined by social media. Consider that three out of five Americans who consider themselves somewhat politically active are members of a social […]...
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By Jay Weiner, The Washington Post It is Wednesday, Nov. 3, in the wee hours of the morning after election night. From Chicago to Las Vegas, from West Virginia to Colorado, exhausted campaign managers are on their BlackBerrys and iPhones, talking, e-mailing and texting with election lawyers and party operatives in Democratic and Republican bunkers […]...
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BOCA RATON, FL—The League of Educational Awareness of the Holocaust™ (LEAH) Board of Directors recently hosted a dinner at Max’s Grille with Dr. Samuel Paul, Associate Professor of Digital Resources at the Shoah Foundation Institute, University of Southern California. The event was underwritten by LEAH Board members, Karol and Marshall Hershon, and celebrated the successful […]...
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By James Allen, Townhall.com The Republican Party is in serious trouble if its leadership continues the habit of disparaging conservative tea-party candidates. This is one reason why I believe people have become disillusioned, left the Republican Party and are looking for a third party that represents their values, no matter how damaging this may be […]...
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Salena Zito, Townhall.com BIG BEAVER, Pa. – Voters throughout river towns like this one, from the Mid-Atlantic through the Mid-West and into the Deep South, are frustrated with Washington. Most are working-class Democrats and independents who placed their trust in Democrats in the past two election cycles. Interesting, then, that with all of the poll […]...
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Bulldog Reporter People and Companies Regularly Have Their Missteps Go Viral Online, But Companies Out There are Ready to Defend Your Cyber-Integrity for a Fee. In the modern digital age where seemingly everything and everyone is online, a new industry is emerging to “manage” the Internet footprint that people and businesses leave online. “Reputation managers” […]...
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By Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski On the Fourth of July, we don’t only celebrate the birth of our nation. We celebrate American exceptionalism—everything that makes the United States the greatest nation on earth. In celebrating this, we reject President Obama’s blueprint for the kind of country he seeks to make us.’ On July 4, […]...
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Matt Silverman, Mashable Just as social media has opened a dialogue between businesses and consumers, its value is apparent to those in political office, whose work and very professional survival hinges on the needs and perceptions of their constituents. But when was the last time a local politician garnered the same social media buzz as […]...
