A few stories lingering on the list. Radical Imam Blogs His Support of Ft. Hood Shooter. Gay bloggers organizing boycott of DNC. C.f. Bloggers Furious At White House For Anonymous Ridicule. More Sarah Palin Facebook fun. Low Turnout Didn’t...
The message below came in recently from an alert reader, who received it from Al Gore/Repower America and passed it along because she thought it was a great example of how to really lay it on too thick in a mass email. The online tool itself that...
The only survivor of the political dot-com boom that I know of has finally been gobbled up — nothing’s eternal in business, my friends. If I remember correctly, back in the late ’90s Grassroots burned through a few tens of millions...
Some news on the publishing front — Karen Jagoda of the E-Voter Institute has put out a new book on the internet’s role in the political world, and one section derives from a piece I wrote for her earlier report on social networking and...
If Creigh Deeds manages to pull off a victory in today’s race for Virginia governor, it won’t be because Republican Bob McDonnell was slack online. In fact, McDonnell’s internet campaign has been impressively comprehensive, meaning...
A follow-on to Thursday’s Ten Rules for Blogger Outreach and Friday’s blogger relations training. Links (in all cases, YMMV) Wikio’s List of Top Political Blogs The world’s 50 most powerful blogs BlogAds (Sells ads on blogs...
Because I’m doing a blogger relations training on Friday, and because everyone loves a good Ten Rules piece, let’s do… Ten Rules for Blogger Outreach 1. Know Your Targets How do you know whom to pitch if you’re not following...
A small example of the extent to which our political rhetoric has become completely unhinged: when my parents were flying to Virginia for my younger brother’s wedding last week, they ended up chatting with one of the flight attendants, a woman...
New client site! Check out Vanishing Paradise, which I designed and built for the National Wildlife Federation and that aims to get hunters and anglers involved in saving Louisiana’s wetlands (hence all the guns — they don’t call...
Time to update that list of open source software shops specializing in nonprofit/advocacy/political work — June of 2007 was a while ago. The companies assembled below all work with open source software and nonprofits or campaigns in some way...