Tracy Viselli | Online Media Strategy, Production, and Activism
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 [...]
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. [...]