July 10, 2009      By: ekmurphy  
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Steve Rubel of Edelman Digital recently wrote an article for Fast Company reporting that people are spending a record amount of time on social networking sites: Twitter and Facebook, etc.
These sites are so attractive of course because they offer streams of brief information updates. Because these “pipelines” of brief status updates enable us to consume [...]

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June 19, 2009      By: ekmurphy  
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Republican-vs-Democrat

In the early 1990s, Republican politicians dominated talk radio. Persuasive speakers used the medium to advance their political agendas (through their own shows, interviews, and ads) and uproot scores of Democratic congressmen, governors, and state lelegislators in the 1994 election.
Today, we have an interesting parallel. Republicans are now proactively using Twitter to build up support [...]