Dana Milbank

7 Questions with Dana Milbank

by Elizabeth Rowe (She/Her)

Dana Milbank is an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. In addition to writing for The Washington Post, Dana provides political commentary for multiple TV outlets and has authored three books on politics. He just released his most recent book, The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crackup of the Republican Party, where he analyzes Republican efforts to hold on to political power by any means necessary.

Loom

Loom is a video application that allows users to record both their screen and camera, and instantly share it with their team

Hashtagify

Hashtagify helps enhance and monitor social media performance through hashtag usage. 

Crowdfire

Crowdfire is a social media management tool that enables users to discover, publish, and analyze content across social media users in one convenient place. 

The Tuesday Company - Team

With this tool, you can organize volunteers into teams to initiate friend-to-friend conversations online that help register, persuade, and turn out voters. With Team, you can urge your volunteers to share information through their social media channels and track what content volunteers are engaging with to see what resonates with your audience. 

Kantar Media CMAG

Sadly, you can’t be everywhere at all times. Kantar Media CMAG will monitor media buys placed by independent expenditures and your opposition, so you can learn where they’re airing their messages and what they’re saying. 

Topplr

Topplr allows you to match voter file data to social profiles for more targeted digital ads. In the interface, you can send ads to lists that you upload or to some of Topplr's pre-sliced lists. Topplr can also help you build your own targeting lists based on factors like geography and political leaning. 

Digital 8

From NGP VAN and Everyaction, Digital 8 is a comprehensive suite of digital tools that allows campaigns and organizations to raise more money and drive more action. Digital 8 features a standalone suite of email, online, and social tools with one-click actions, forms optimized for mobile viewing, free social matching, and Facebook ads integration. 

SparkInfluence

SparkInfluence is a Wordpress and mobile-friendly platform to help you get the most out of advocacy and grassroots efforts. Educate, engage, and empower your campaign, all while collecting useful data. 

Twitter Analytics

You likely use Twitter, but have you really dug into the back-end of its analytics dashboard? It is a great place to get true insight into who is connecting with you and what tweets are driving interaction.

Tweepi

Tweepi helps you organize your Twitter followers and get a better sense of who follows you (and who doesn’t).

Talkwalker Alerts

Talkwalker Alerts is a social media analytics tool that helps you monitor what’s going on in the world by focusing on keywords or names.