Here’s an interesting approach to contacting voters by email, via Charles Lenchner of DemocracyInAction, who thought of it while doing volunteer work for a city council candidate in NYC. Several companies will take a database of voter names...
Below are resources for the Craigslist Foundation 2008 Nonprofit Boot Camp in NYC. The topic? Online Communications On A Shoestring. The presenters? E.politics (hey kids!) and Laura S. Quinn of Idealware. Questions? Drop me a line. Update:...
It’s been a little crazy here in the e.politics bunker the past couple of days, with heavy incoming fire (i.e., clients) requiring the sternest of all possible responses (i.e., large invoices), but we can’t possibly let Wednesday’s...
Hey kids, don’t forget tomorrow’s lunchtime discussion of Online Politics 101 at IPDI — the room is apparently full-up, but a couple of folks usually flake at the last minute, so contact Julie Germany if you’re not on The...
Veep alert = cash call. Team Obama uses the Veepstakes to drive fundraising. C.f. Obama Plans Novel VP Announcement TXT. Update: Now he has online ads centering around it. Liberals Ask Justice to Probe McCain Bundler. MoveOn has a multi-front...
Watch the two clips below and see if you agree: when the professional ad makers take on the distributed, collective intelligence of the internet, the ad guys risk losing. Here’s what I mean: McCain’s video folks are clearly very...
So, yesterday I did my first live TV appearance, on Sky News (big in the UK and Commonwealth, apparently). By now I’ve done several radio appearances and plenty of web video, but never live TV, and I was nervous as a cat at the prospect. One...
Update: the straight dope from the instigator of the Lefty “Twitterbomb” against #DontGo, and additional coverage from tPrez. Man, this #dontgo thing certainly does seem to have the Rs fired up, at least the Rs who are on Twitter. If...
Paris Hilton and “genius” are rarely seen in the same sentence, but here they are. You may have heard of the video below, but you really oughta check it out for yourself: See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on...