Guest article! What happens when politics meets karaoke? We’re about to find out…and we might just learn something before we’re done. Check out the great advice below from Abigail Collazo and Jesse B. Rauch. What Politicians Can...
If you have some connection to the online organizing tool NationBuilder, you probably got the email printed below, which alleges “harassment” of the company’s political customers by rival NGP VAN. NGP’s response to the...
It’s hard to believe that just a few months ago a bunch of us online political nerds were camped out in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, an experience that damn near killed your Loyal Editor. Besides the audio recording of our...
Guest article! The latest from our old friend Beth Becker. How a Twitter Rapid Response Campaign Helped Susan Sarandon ‘Get’ Paid Sick Days By Beth Becker A coalition of diverse organizations in New York City has banded together to...
Hi folks, here’s a quick update on the latest Epolitics.com e-book, How Campaigns Can Use the Internet to Win in 2012: as of this morning, it had been directly downloaded 3243 times! And of course, that number doesn’t include any...
Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Elections article is up, and it looks at some critiques of the new trend toward using online ad networks to target individual voters through online “cookies.” As we’ve seen, online political...
Daniel Kreiss, a professor in the school of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC, just put out a new book that examines the adoption of digital technologies by the political Left in the U.S.: My new book, Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of...
Hey kids! Tonight (Tuesday) I’m speaking at a Progressive Tech Meetup/happy hour at Public Bar. The subject? People-Powered-Politics, with a focus on how digital organizing can help us counter the wave of big-donor money that’s flowing...
Update: a good discussion about this article has been taking place on Facebook. Guest article! A little discussion blew up over on the Progressive Exchange listserv this week, with some folks less-than-pleased that NationBuilder‘s being used...
The second (and final) segment of Beth Becker’s latest thinking on social media. Rethinking Social, Part Two: Optimizing Content for Social Sharing By Beth Becker In the first segment in this two-part series, I briefly explored the idea that...