Tracy Viselli | Online Media Strategy, Production, and Activism
Tracy Viselli | Online Media Strategy, Production, and Activism
Tracy Viselli writes about state and national politics at Reno and Its Discontents, and her political opinions have been featured in the Nation Journal, Huffington Post, TimesOnline, and The Hotline among others. Viselli is also a member of PoliticsHome’s Online 100 Panel, which includes “100 leading online voices.” Viselli is a Contributing Editor at Political Voices of Women, a member of Women in Politics and Technology and WomenWhoTech.
Her blogs include:
Viselli uses her social media expertise in her professional life as well as in her second life as a political and social activist. She increasingly devotes her time to Twitter activism and with her partners, just launched TweetProgress, a directory of progressives on Twitter built around the use of the #p2 hashtag, of which she is the co-founder. She was a member of the Twitter Vote Report team that used the microsharing tool Twitter as a strategy in election protection efforts during the 2008 election. Viselli also worked with a number of activists on the Voter Suppression Wiki, a resource for journalists, activists, and citizens interested in election protection efforts.
Other campaigns include:
Viselli has been tapped as an expert both in social media and politics and regularly consults with clients in both arenas on how they can use social media to build relationships that will bring them the results they need to be successful. Viselli practices what she preaches and maintains strategic relationships through blogger outreach and on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Viselli is also a recognized expert regularly tapped by the media for commentary. Learn more about Viselli by clicking here.
You can also get a peek into what Viselli does during her day job by following the QuinStreet Twitter account and by becoming a fan of the QuinStreet Facebook fan page.
More than 3,000 progressives have added themselves to TweetProgress since it’s surprising launch Sunday night and we’d like to get to 5,000 as soon as possible. Add yourself to the Twitter directory that already includes Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore, MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow, and Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer [...]
Posted On: August 29, 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot about the best ways to social and political movements on Twitter lately. Organizing on Twitter centers around the use of hashtags, and I’ve detailed my latest example of organizing around hashtags in my post “#taxcuts: Creating Twitter Hashtags that Inspire Action.” Soon after, Jon Pincus and I began working on recommendations [...]
For those of you keeping track, my new project is Nevada New Media and the first annual NNM Summit to be held on March 7th, 2009 at the University of Nevada, Reno. Nevada New Media is co-sponsored by the Reynolds School of Journalism and includes a great advisory board. My co-founder and partner in [...]
I’m working on two fantastic voter projects right now that you should know about.
Voter Suppression Wiki
The Voter Suppression Wiki serves as a directory of information on how to protect your own vote, as well as the votes of others, during this election season. The Voter Suppression Wiki is a repository of voter suppression information created [...]
Thanks to the generous support of my readers and an invitation from the sponsors of the Big Tent in Denver, I will be at, or at least very near, the 2008 National Democratic Convention in Denver. I can’t begin to tell you how exciting this news is for a lowly, independent blogger like me. [...]
