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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...

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Emerging 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:...

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Teens 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...

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Latest 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...

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Importance 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...

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Who’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...

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Mobile 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...

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The 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...

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Cracking 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...

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How 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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