PTP’s 2013 Spring REVERB Program
What is REVERB? PTP’s REVERB Project is designed to help organizations get the most out of their communications activities. REVERB helps groups develop better ways to streamline and align their...
View ArticleEmerging 2013 Social Media Trends
This week e.politics posted a helpful list of online trends to watch in 2013. We found it really helpful for prompting discussions around both short-term and long-term online strategies. Here you go:...
View ArticleTeens and Technology 2013
The Pew Research Center — which regularly releases excellent studies identifying trends in the online world — has released a new survey entitled “Teens and Technology 2013.” They find that smartphone...
View ArticleLatest Pew Study on Civic Engagement
Always a font of intriguing insight, the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently released the results of its yearly survey about civic life and the Internet. According to TechPresident, “buried...
View ArticleImportance of Online Visuals Increasing
Graduates of our REVERB trainings know that we believe visuals matter – a lot. Our movement needs to be versed in ways to create powerful imagery so that our campaigns and stories move hearts, not just...
View ArticleWho’s Using Facebook and Who’s Leaving
There’s a new Pew poll out that finds that 71% of online adults now use Facebook, and usage among seniors has increased significantly in the last year. 45% of internet users age 65 or older now use...
View ArticleMobile is Finally a (not-so-exciting) Reality
Mobile-phone driven organizing has been the “next big thing” that never seems to arrive. But maybe, just maybe, 2014 will signal a shift and it will begin to affect grassroots organizing in a...
View ArticleThe Digital Divide and Mobile Platforms
Last year Pew published a survey of African American mobile phone and social networking usage. According to the findings, 73% of African American internet users—and 96% of those ages 18-29—use a social...
View ArticleCracking the Crowdfunding Code
Crowdfunding is all the rage. But in many ways it’s not new at all: grassroots groups have been raising money from individuals for decades. What’s new is that they are now cheap, efficient and easy to...
View ArticleHow Does Social Media Shape Elections?
The jury is still out on how social media organizing translates into voter turnout. But the outlines of the effects are becoming less blurry. Last August The Atlantic ran a intriguing story entitled “9...
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