http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp Unbelievable Auction items at bargain prices. Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:00:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Note: Google’s policy team is a client of Engage. Thus, my goal is that you’ll be doubly floored by the impartiality of this product review. Probably THE tech story of the week is the emergence of Buzz, Google’s foray into the world of short status updates currently the province of Twitter, Facebook, and in ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/all-abuzz-about-buzz/ A word cloud of the most commonly used words in donor messages to the Scott Brown campaign. Engage was proud to play a role in Scott Brown’s historic, come-from-behind victory through iContribute, our online fundraising platform. In the end, over $12 million was raised online with over 157,000 individual donations, more ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/scott-brown%e2%80%99s-online-fundraising-machine-inside-the-numbers/ “People are talking about you on social networks and you need to be in on the conversation.” This should be the axiomatic approach to social media for all public figures (celebrities, business owners, candidates, etc.).  Networks like Twitter and Facebook are the venues where Americans are having conversation about everything ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/two-cities-two-mayors-two-approaches/ http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/inside-barack-obama%e2%80%99s-splash-page/ The McDonnell for Governor campaign made a commitment from the outset to run the most sophisticated campaign in Virginia statewide history. In addition to aggressive volunteer recruitment and voter contact programs, they recognized the value in investing in a professional-looking website and online strategy and media team. Keeping ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/mcdonnell-online-strategy-people-matter/ Today, we welcome to the team David Kralik, who will be leading Engage’s new California office. Based in San Francisco, David comes to us from American Solutions for Winning the Future, where he was Speaker Newt Gingrich’s Director of Internet Strategy. -ed. It’s great to be joining a very deep bench ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/from-the-valley-to-the-hill-we%e2%80%99re-ready-to-engage/ Our friend Jonathan Rick notes an interesting trend: more big companies are eschewing the traditional press release, and are announcing news in first-person media like blogs and Twitter: Indeed, as Claire Cain Miller reported in a much-discussed article last week, the pr agency representing Flickr never issued a release on its ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/the-end-of-the-press-release/ Last week I had the pleasure of joining a panel on social media and politics at the Milken Global Conference.  The Conference targets CEOs and featured Nobel-prize winning economists, major nation defense ministers, Olympic athletes, and this year, Rush Limbaugh.  So what was I doing there? Social media’s role in politics ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/social-media-politics/ On Friday, the special election contest in New York’s 20th Congressional District drew to a close, with Democrat Scott Murphy edging out Republican Jim Tedisco by slightly over 400 votes out of nearly 160,000 cast. Tedisco finance chairman Tom Lewis has posted his postmortem on the race from the inside ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/what-we-learned-from-ny20/ Engage is putting out a call for great freelance designers to join our growing network. Great design can be an elusive thing, but it’s something we value deeply here at Engage. Studies have shown that users judge websites by their design in the blink of an eye. Unless they’re extremely prodigious ... http://www.historical-memorabilia.bargainmagnet.com/wp/a-call-for-great-designers/