This weekend’s RootsCamp has sold out — not as in “sold out to The Man,” but actually sold out of tickets! Very cool for New Organizing Institute and the whole RootsCamp crew, but a bummer for you if you haven’t gotten...
Howdy folks, sorry for the brief publishing hiatus, but things been a little crazy down in the e.politics bunker. One bit of fun: today’s Pennsylvania Progressive Summit panel, “Smart Digital Strategies for the Real World,” where...
Latest video from my discussion with Meltwater‘s Kimling Lam and Ashley Hillis! When you’re done, also check out the first two installments.
– cpd
Breaking news as I write this: in the face of a massive backlash, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. What happened? Komen ran into the power of citizen-activism, for one thing. Did the...
Hi folks, the other day I sat down (via Skype) with the Meltwater Group‘s Kimling Lam to talk about social media and political campaigns. We talked for about half an hour, and Meltwater’s currently putting out the results as a series of...
ClickZ‘s Kate Kaye is a rare reporter these days who really understands online advertising and knows the right questions to ask. Don’t miss her coverage of the 2012 primaries, in which campaigns and Super PACs have taken to the...
With the last “permanent” Occupy encampments in DC and Oakland beseiged, the first chapter of the Occupy movement seems to be closing. Will there be another, and if not, is that a bad thing? First, let’s think about what the...
Here’s a message I sent out toward the end of last week’s State Of The Union live-tweeting extravaganza: A live-tweeting session is a curiously unsocial social media experience – 150 people in a room, w only the speech & the...
Politico had a short piece yesterday (via PoliticalWire) about Obama 2012’s new foray into mobile fundraising: The Obama reelection campaign is providing headquarters staff, field organizers and volunteers the ability to take campaign...
Check out the fundraising email below, which rolled in via the Daily Kos list on Friday. Other than standard template elements, its sole content consisted of: Subject: Mazel tov! Colin, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, a Democrat and one of the...