Hi folks, this just in from ClickZ‘s crack political advertising reporter, Kate Kaye: As you may know, ClickZ is putting together a free resource for political campaigns set to publish in May called “Digital Political Campaigns 101...
Be sure to check out Charles Cooper’s piece on CBSNews.com about the online fight over Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law, both because it’s good and because it features two big, fat e.politics quotes. Cooper dropped me a...
This question’s come up a couple of times lately, most recently when I was meeting with a group of Maryland political candidates last week — should political campaigns focus their online advertising on Google or Facebook? The answer, of...
[Now Updated — see below] In the company’s never-ending quest to monopolize our attention online, Facebook has now unveiled an entirely new feature: “Community Pages” on popular topics. What’s the difference between a...
CQ’s Daniel Newhauser picked up on a good story late last week — Minnesota Governor and presumed 2012 Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has “crowdsourced” his backing, allowing his supporters to vote to decide...
Here’s an observation from Joe Trippi and Rod Martin’s lunchtime POLC conversation yesterday — yes, the long American election seasons have some drawbacks, but they do give campaigns a chance to build support incrementally over...
One excellent point from today’s Politics Online panel on email advocacy and fundraising: James Wong described email as the hub around which the social media world revolves. What did he mean? Without email, most social tools like Facebook and...
On the eve of the Politics Online Conference, and after some time thinking about the broader political and media landscape over the last few days, let’s ask a big question — what’s next? I.e., what’s the next major...
A lot of things have been looking up in the e.politics world lately — interesting day job and fascinating trips abroad, for a start — but there has been one dark cloud in the bunker in recent weeks. You see, the site has lost a family...
Here’s one Politics Online Conference session you shouldn’t miss (besides my own open-source CMS nerdathon) — Pete Snyder, my boss at New Media Strategies and a veteran of more than ten years in the social media space, will hold...