Also published on techPresident Watching Obama’s online army creak into action on health care reform is painful, particularly for someone who wrote about the ruthless efficiency of his online campaign for president. The enemies may be somewhat...
Late-summer links, fresh off the grill. Update: Online politics leads to offline activism. In other news, the internet can be used to raise money! And promote issues! Plus, water is wet! Okay, okay, go straight to the source for the full story...
What with all the shows, e-books, panels and other crazy stuff being planned down here in the e.politics bunker lately, I’ve completely failed to let you guys know about the two presentations I have in the running for South by Southwest. You...
Also published on techPresident A quick correction to “Learning from Obama” — roughly two-thirds of Barack Obama’s online fundraising in 2007-2008 came in directly via an email solicitation, meaning that the money was donated...
As of 4 AM today, the “Learning from Obama” e-book had been downloaded 2057 times — due of course to the work of everyone who’s linked to it, posted it, forwarded it, Twittered it or maybe even mentioned it in one of those...
If you couldn’t make it to our panel at Netroots Nation (i.e., you weren’t there/awake/sober yet when we went on at 10:30 AM on the first day), fret no more! Conference panels were recorded, and the video from our session (“Scaling...
Also published on techPresident and K Street Cafe Plenty of people are already looking ahead to the outcome of the 2010 elections, in particular what happens to the Democrats’ control of Congress. The party of an incumbent President almost...
It’s not so often that you get to try a communications format completely new to you, and even less so that you decide to do so out-loud and in public, without a net. So when National Journal’s Sara Jerome suggested that we try conducting...
Well, that little “Learning from Obama” e-book‘s been out for a little over a week now, so how’s it going? First off, thanks to everybody who’s helped spread the word — from Facebook to Gmail to the blogs...
When it comes to communications technology, at least: in a Netroots Nation panel today on political organizing in rural areas, Mindy Diane Feldman mentioned that some rural areas in this country are effectively leapfrogging a generation of...