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IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Tam Harbert |
Tech Industry Money in U.S. Elections With tech industry stakes low, so are campaign contributions   |
Information Today
February 28, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Big Data, Open Government, and Sunlight Open States is the latest in a collection of Big Data-open government analysis tools from Sunlight Foundation. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2011
Evan Niu |
Stop the Stop Online Piracy Act Now This legislation might just ruin the Internet. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012
Anders Bylund |
10 Things I Think About the Wikipedia Blackout Wikipedia fights fire with fire. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Sara Forden |
Facebook Builds a Washington Lobbying Team The social networking site is expanding its six-person lobbying office to deal with Washington's growing interest in privacy and other Internet issues |
Search Engine Watch
April 13, 2010
Mark Hanson |
Labour's View: Social Media and the New World of U.K. Political Campaigns Technology has enabled people to organize for themselves, find people who share their interests, talk back, and find new authority figures. A successful campaign by any political party needs to recognize this. |
Information Today
November 28, 2011
George H. Pike |
Controversy Surrounds Stop Online Piracy Act as Mark-Up Approaches The Stop Online Piracy Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. A companion bill to the previously introduced PROTECT-IP Act, SOPA would give both government officials and content owners new authority to go after "rogue websites." |
InternetNews
December 3, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Privacy Advocates Press for Net Legislation A new effort by the Center for Democracy and Technology coincides with signs of movement in Congress on Internet privacy. |
Managed Care
August 2002
Maureen Glabman |
Lobbyists That the Founders Just Never Dreamed of The "right ... to petition the government" has come a long way in over 200 years, and health care organizations are not shy in exercising it. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
1,500 People Worked Against You Lobbyists, hired by banks, investment firms, insurers, and real estate companies, fought many of the recently proposed reforms in Congress, with mixed results for us citizens and consumers. |
Managed Care
September 2003
John Carroll |
Some Lobbying Tactics Have Pols Seeing Red More than 600 groups have lined up against association health plans, lobbying exhaustively against them in Congress. But the manner in which the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association went about it raised some hackles. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Tapping the Constituency, Wiki-Style New collaborative writing tool aims to give noisy blogosphere a unified voice. Will the politicians listen? |
InternetNews
December 30, 2010 |
Looking Back on Web Privacy: 2010 Internet privacy was a favorite topic among regulators, lawmakers and advocacy groups, but for all the debate, how far did the government get toward reining in online data collection? |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2006
Egbert & Hoechstetter |
Mission Possible: Evaluating Advocacy Grants In an effort to more accurately reflect the outcomes of policy-related grants and promote more support for nonprofit advocacy, the Alliance for Justice teamed with The George Gund Foundation and Mosaica to fashion tools for grantmakers that show the effectiveness of nonprofit advocacy work. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Dodd-Frank Prompts Brokerage Industry to Increase Lobbying Efforts With many issues surrounding the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act set to come to a head in the next year, advocacy is more important than ever for financial industry groups. |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009
Douglas MacMillan |
Facebook's Online Identity War It's trying to be the standard for online ID in ways that are making privacy advocates nervous. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 25, 2012
Michael Blanding |
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C. New research suggests the number of companies affecting government policy through lobbying may be smaller -- but more powerful -- than previously thought. |
Search Engine Watch
January 20, 2011
Kristine Schachinger |
The Web: Why Users No Longer Matter Don't you miss the good old days when huge companies like Google and Facebook didn't force worse user experiences on us? A severe lack of competition is allowing these companies to undermine the Web's fundamental principles. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
Investors Win, Citizens Lose Why are corporations allowed to have any political influence? |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jul/Aug 2004
Nan Aron |
Advocacy's Efficacy Nonprofit advocacy is an effective way to leverage foundation resources and make a significant impact. Here's why and how. |
InternetNews
December 10, 2009 |
Critics Blast Facebook's Latest Privacy Overhaul Advocates warn that new privacy controls will lead to inadvertent sharing of information. |
Information Today
February 4, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
FCC Confronts Issues of Net Neutrality, Future of the Internet at Stake On Jan. 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority over broadband providers in its provision of internet access and traffic "control" as it has with ISPs. Immediately red flags went up. |
Reason
November 2007
David Weigel |
John Edwards vs. the Lobbyists A presidential candidate promises to clean up Washington by trashing the First Amendment |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Making Friends A strong connection exists between financial industry lobbying and favorable financial legislation. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
CA Fires Another Shot Across Beacon's Bow Facebook's response to the security researchers' concerns is unlikely to quiet the latest critics of its controversial ad platform. |
AFP eWire
August 11, 2008 |
Most Nonprofits Devote Little Resources to Advocacy A recent survey of lobbying and advocacy activity by nonprofits shows that while many organizations are involved in policy advocacy, relatively little time, attention or resources are spent on the activity, hindering deeper policy involvement. |
InternetNews
April 9, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook at 200 Million Facebook celebrates milestone with new partnerships, self-adulation. |
AFP eWire
July 5, 2011 |
What Good is Facebook? Having a Facebook page for your nonprofit can help drive traffic to your website and raise awareness of your organization, but it is proving less effective at helping an organization recruit volunteers and raise funds, according to a recent survey. |
InternetNews
August 18, 2009 |
Facebook Sued Over Privacy Flap in California Complaint alleges Facebook violates state's privacy, copyright laws. |
Information Today
June 1, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Our Love-Hate Relationship With Facebook This spring, Facebook's introduction of new open network features (with automatic access by third-party apps) set off a firestorm of criticism over privacy issues. |
InternetNews
April 24, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook Adopting New Usage Policies Social networking site to ratify new governance policies to give users more control of their data, though some privacy advocates remain skeptical. |
CRM
February 2013
Kelly Liyakasa |
Social Pushes the Boundaries of Commerce Are Amazon and Facebook reprogramming the way companies market and sell? |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011 |
The Real Estate-Industrial Complex Real estate agents, homebuilders, Wall Street banks, community banks, and civil rights groups have been lobbying Congress to maintain various federal subsidies on mortgages. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Paul M. Barrett et al. |
An Internet Struggle with Bandwidth Aplenty Why the net neutrality debate could drag on for years. |
InternetNews
December 5, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook Apologizes For Beacon Blunders Bowing to critics, Facebook's CEO apologizes for its missteps on its ad platform. But is it enough? |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
The Weekly Walk of Shame: Wall Street Lobbyists and Your Money Wall Street has been spending an estimated $1.4 million per day lobbying to weaken rules that would limit the ability to imperil the economy, according to Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor charged with oversight of the TARP.program. |
PC World
August 23, 2001
Matt Berger |
Microsoft Supporters Raised From the Dead Some lobbying efforts come from strange and fictitious sources, officials say... |
InternetNews
February 17, 2009
David Needle |
Facebook Scrambles to Nip Privacy Controversy Despite changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists users own and control their own information. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2010 |
Click-Out Boycott of Facebook Fizzles The first and probably last 'Quit Facebook Day' came and went over the holiday weekend and the response from the social networking site's members was far from overwhelming. |
InternetNews
December 10, 2009 |
Facebook Users Still Upset at Security Changes New controls may expose even more personal data to the Web at large, charge critics. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Amazon and Facebook: A Mediocre Marriage at Best This could have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Instead, it's a missed opportunity that cuts both ways. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Kendy & Vranes |
Breaking Down the Barriers: A Two-Part Series, Part 1 Although it is a tired cliche, knowledge is power, and nowhere is that more true than in legislative politics. Your members of Congress cannot do their jobs without citizens' input. In other words, they need to be lobbied. |
InternetNews
November 30, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook Backpedals on Beacon Will Facebook's changes to its controversial advertising platform be enough to quiet the uproar over the alleged privacy violations? |
