This weekend, Leslie Wayne reported in The Caucus that the very successful Democratic fundraising site ActBlue is trying to expand beyond its emphasis on candidates and into the world of fundraising for political action committees and labor unions...
Well, it’s a tactic most of us won’t get to use, but the Politico’s Mike Allen reports today on a nice side effect of this weekend’s Oprah/Obama show: The Obama campaign says that 68 percent of the people who signed up for...
Friday Fun comes a day early this week, with a terrific video mashup courtesy of the CamPain2008 YouTube channel. Excellent work! It doesn’t tell us much about the political world, but that does nothing to detract from a standalone piece of...
A couple of interesting scandal-related stories today: first off, as Wired and others are reporting, some excellent research by an expert with the company SecureWorks has found the spammer behind the recent barrage of unsolicited Ron Paul emails...
Hey kids, don’t forget about tonight’s political marketing panel discussion — if you haven’t registered yet, you can still show up, though you’ll have to pay a few bucks extra (tragically, I ain’t gettin’ a...
Quick Hits returns! Last seen in abbreviated form on September 7th, it’s been off training hard for the ’08 campaign season. Crowdsourcing the Latest Giuliani Scandal. Kos sez, let’s come up with a catchy name for Giuliani’s...
Some news on the social networking front: more online advocacy providers are getting into the Facebook Application business, with Grassroots Enterprises releasing a new tool today that will allow organizations to run Facebook advocacy through the...
Big news from Iowa this weekend, with Mike Huckabee and Barak Obama apparently bouncing to the top of the likely caucus-voter polls. Writing in the Post on Sunday, Chris Cillizza And Shailagh Murray point to an email list as part of the reason for...
This evening, the Republican presidential candidates will finally submit to the unthinkable and take questions from the great unwashed masses. Josh at tPrez looked at some of the noteworthy submissions yesterday, and I’m sure a ton of sites...
The folks over at Collactive have put together a great list of tips on designing video clips so that they’ll have the best chance of doing well on YouTube and by extension other video sharing sites. Besides information on preparing the actual...