Alan Rosenblatt

Turner4D

July 9, 2020

How to Show Activists Social Love

With Valentine’s Day approaching, I was recently asked to share some insights about showing social love to your activists for Attentive.ly. Check it out: Showing a little bit of social love to your activists is the secret sauce to keeping them engaged and likely to keep them doing more for your campaign. While sometimes that may mean a retweet or…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0

Digital Strategy

March 9, 2020

FROM THE DIGITAL ATTIC OF DRDIGIPOL: Make Social Media a Top Priority

Here is a piece I wrote in October of 2014 for the now defunct Connectivity blog at CQ-Roll Call. It called for campaigns and organizations to make social media a top priority, with appropriate staffing and resources. This is still a message that too many have yet to embrace. With the rise of fake news on social media, it is…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love2724

Digital Strategy

March 4, 2020

FROM THE DIGITAL ATTIC OF DRDIGIPOL: Don’t Confuse Number of Facebook Fans with Success: Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry

Editor’s Note 2019.05.22: Insert bots. Editor’s note 2011.10.11: With Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and the rest of the Republican field set to meet tonight for the Bloomberg/Washington Post debate, now is the perfect time to inaugurate Backchannel, what we hope will become an ongoing conversation between practitioners and close observers at the intersection of technology and politics, hosted on…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love2724

May 22, 2018

FROM THE DIGITAL ATTIC OF DRDIGIPOL: Don’t Confuse Number of Facebook Fans with Success: Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry

Editor’s Note 2019.05.22: Insert bots. Editor’s note 2011.10.11: With Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and the rest of the Republican field set to meet tonight for the Bloomberg/Washington Post debate, now is the perfect time to inaugurate Backchannel, what we hope will become an ongoing conversation between practitioners and close observers at the intersection of technology and politics, hosted on…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0

Advocacy

December 3, 2017

FROM THE DIGITAL ATTIC OF DRDIGIPOL: Make Social Media a Top Priority

Here is a piece I wrote in October of 2014 for the now defunct Connectivity blog at CQ-Roll Call. It called for campaigns and organizations to make social media a top priority, with appropriate staffing and resources. This is still a message that too many have yet to embrace. With the rise of fake news on social media, it is…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0

Digital Strategy

October 16, 2017

FROM THE DIGITAL ATTIC OF DRDIGIPOL: The Software is Only Good if the Email Gets Through

Here is a piece I wrote in 2006 that apparently disappeared from the Internet. Someone asked if I still had it. Lo and behold I do. So here it is. NOTE: This was written 12 years ago. Nothing has been edited since then. _______________________________________ Can you just hear James Earl Jones saying that title? I can. All jests aside, we…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0

March 29, 2017

Facebook Buzz Predicts Bernie’s Rise

In my latest SocialMediaToday.com column I show how Bernie Sander’s Facebook buzz is a predictor for his primary and caucus successes. On March 8, while still trailing Hillary Clinton on buzz, he was rising and she was falling. Subsequent delegate tallies in primaries and caucuses showed a narrowing of Clinton’s lead. Then, from March 22-28, Sanders outperformed Clinton on Facebook…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0

Digital Strategy

March 13, 2017

DrDigiPol Digs into Breitbart, Trump & the Rise of Hate-Driven Populism in the US & Europe

The Dr. DigiPol Show has been digging into how Breitbart and Steve Bannon have been deeply involved in shaping politics in Britain, the US and now across Europe. First, Alan and Suzanne explored how Breitbart.com provides a good signal to see where the Trump Administration is going:Then Alan interviews Criminal Justice Professor Paul Leighton about the rise of hate crimes and the Director…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0

Digital Strategy

February 17, 2017

Of Trump, #SocialMedia and the Ever Important Conversion

Regardless of the project we work on here at turner4D, whether it leverages social, digital, earned, paid or any combination of these media, our goal is conversion. We always work with our clients to find out what their end goal is and develop strategy and tactics to get them there. In the spirit of prioritizing conversion to success, my latest…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0

Turner4D

January 26, 2017

It’s Academic, But Is It Social: @DrDigiPol Talks About @turner4D’s University #SocialMedia Package

In the tradition of turner4D’s work building enterprise-level social media programs for news media outlets, think tanks and advocacy groups, we now have a fully developed service offering for universities, colleges and large academic units within them. Our services include introductory and advanced social media training for faculty and strategic training for the school’s marketing team, as well as a…

Alan Rosenblatt

Love0