Updated below. Google+ went live for the masses today (assuming you got in before the system stopped taking new users), meaning that the search giant has taken another stab at social networking — and at staving off the threat of Facebook. How...
Here’s a fun (and fundamental) mistake to avoid: don’t promote a web address for your campaign until you’re sure you’ve actually bought it…. You see, the New Jersey branch of Americans for Prosperity recently launched a...
So there I was, innocently puttering around the e.politics bunker last night with the Military Channel on in the background (a show on CIA spycraft! Yum), when all of a sudden Mike Huckabee’s Southern drawl rolled out of my fine 150-watt 1993...
Words of wisdom from RadCampaign’s Allyson Kapin, a friend and colleague in the online politics world: Of course, this isn’t new advice (parts of it are also in the list-building and social network chapters of Online Politics 101), but...
Here’s something to chew on while you’re waiting for those promised Netroots Nation after-action reports: the results of an attempt to use Facebook advertising as the primary paid outreach tool for a ballot-initiative campaign. And...
Whew, that was one hell of a long weekend, full of panels, presentations and parties — good thing I’m a trained schmoozer, ’cause this was no place for amateurs. One highlight of the trip? Our Left Meets Right/Right Meets Left...
Howdy folks! I’m off to Minneapolis with my National Women’s Law Center colleague Danielle Jackson for the Netroots Nation conference, where we’ll be learnin’ and schmoozin’ with some of the finest folks in the...
Here’s a fun new tool from the folks at PopVox, whose platform got a great review by Sandi Fox here on Epolitics.com back in April: a widget that lets you embed an advocacy action targeting Congress on just about any website. The free version...
Here’s a question for all of you online politics gurus out there — and yes, I mean you. What digital technologies will REALLY matter in the 2012 elections? I have my own predictions, which we’ll no doubt explore later, but first I...
An unexpected gift arrived in my email inbox this evening: an invitation (subject line: “Invitation”) to join Newt Gingrich’s email list: As you may have heard, I am an official candidate for president of the United States. But I...