Hi folks, I’m lucky enough to be on what looks to be a terrific post-election panel offered by the DC Social Media Club and the Beekeeper Group on November 7th as a part of Digital Capital Week. We’ll be discussing lessons nonprofit and...
Hard to believe, but election day is less than a week away, and across the country, campaigns and outside groups are running a full-on GOTV blitz. Let’s give ’em some help — below is a short list of useful online resources for...
Here’s a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political “operative” (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing-state voters’ phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is...
This email just arrived in the e.politics bunker, where we’re currently hunkered down waiting for Hurricane Sandy, aka the Frankenstorm, to make DC very cold and very wet. Subject: Hurricane Sandy Colin — This is a serious storm, but we...
Hi, the recent changes at Salsa and Change.org have understandably sparked some long discussions on the various progressive activist listservs and other discussion forums; you’ve seen the initial Epolitics.com responses earlier (Salsa here...
Big news broke in the advocacy space last night: Change.org will now begin accepting paid petitions from conservative groups, including Republican political campaigns and anti-abortion groups. In response, progressive activists, who’ve...
Last week I had the pleasure of (virtually) dropping by the FDH Lounge — internet radio’s finest no-topics-barred discussion show — to chat with host Rick Morris, something I get to do every six months or so. Rick and I agree...
Oct. 30th Event at The Press Club: The Online Election — Social Media and the 2012 Presidential Race
Howdy folks, on October 30th I get to take part in what promises to be a terrific discussion about social media and the presidential race at the National Press Club: The Online Election – Social Media and the 2012 Presidential Race The 2012 U...
Update: Campaigns & Elections has April’s email to Salsa staff. Heartbreaking. Update II: Just days after the big news from Salsa, it became public knowledge that Change.org was shedding its progressive/lefty orientation. Read more. News...
Ah, sweet internets — you do have a way of picking out salient moments that our Official Information Gatekeepers might have missed in earlier times. Last night’s example? The “binders full of women” that Romney supposedly...