Raven Brooks

Earlier this week I got an email from our HR provider advising me on new employment laws taking effect in CA in 2012. I started reading through them and it was literally one big progressive win after another and the first time I was reading about it was from my HR provider. I stay pretty [...]

Matt Wisniewski has another Wisconsin protest video up today, same great caliber as the previous one I posted. As I mentioned yesterday, notice the elements of this that make it compelling to watch and very sharable.

Enjoy!

This’ll be short and sweet, I just wanted to share this great video on the Wisconsin protests that I ran across today.

Most of the videos you run across covering events like this are terrible. This one tells the story, is engaging, evokes an emotional response, and is something folks will want to share. In other words the guy that produced this is very much doing it right.

Just wanted to share it as an example of compelling storytelling, and hope that you’ll share it as well. Check out the video inside.

If you’d like to read the full text, as prepared for delivery, of the State of the Union tonight before it’s delivered you’ll find that below.

Remember this? Back in February 2009 when the sky was falling and Obama was less than a month into his term GM was on the verge of bankruptcy. And this article in Time was fairly representative of the attitude people had about this bailout. Thankfully the Obama administration knew this was bigger than GM and it would have lead to millions of job losses throughout whole supply chain. Many of our elected leaders were totally fine with bailing out Wall Street, but somehow this was a problem and Obama spent some political capital to get it done.

Well here we are about 18 months later, how’d that work out?

Check out this great white board video from the White House.

I usually don’t get to spend much time watching the events I put together at Netroots Nation. With a 3 day event comprised of over 100 sessions, over 300 speakers, over 100 sponsors and 2000+ attendees most of my time is spent in our show office. Thankfully I had a little more time at Netroots California to just take the content in. I was tied to one room for the most part, so there’s a lot of great stuff I missed. Here are 5 key takeaways for me.

I just heard a statistic that floored me: “In 2008, almost 2 million Americans failed to vote simply because they did not know where to do so.” Click through to find a tool you can embed on any web site to check your polling location or just find out where yours is on their web site.

The 2010 elections are nearly upon us, and there couldn’t be more at stake. If it’s not enough that there’s a horde of crazy people trying to take office such as Sharron Angle (NV), Christine O’Donnell (DE) and Rand Paul (KY) there’s a lot more at stake.

So it’s time to dig deep folks. Campaigns buy everything they need to close out this Friday, October 29th.

Click through for a lot more.

Want to see what the GOP wants to do to social security? This infographic is pretty clear and to the point. Click through to check it out and read the supporting articles and reports.

One thing is for sure, there are some really talented information design folks that work in democratic politics. They’ve created some really great stuff like the Road to Recovery graphic. The latest comes from the DNC, it’s a nifty microsite simply called Progress.

Click through to check it out and read more.