The San Francisco NetSqared group got a great overview of Google Earth’s potential for online advocacy communications on October 9th, courtesy of Google Earth project manager Steve Miller. Two audience members have written the presentation up...
I’ve never been entirely satisfied with the comment policy on this site, so let’s take this fine Fall morning to make an arbitrary executive decision. The problem is that because of comment-spam, and despite a good spam filter, enough...
Cross-posted on techPresident A chat I had with a couple of folks from Radio Singapore International this weekend called up something that’s been playing around in my head for a while now: the idea that we’re seeing the birth of a host...
I’ve been looking for a good reason to return to last week’s question of online political etiquette, and fortunately commenter Ron Goodwine provided an excellent excuse when he left this note yesterday on the original original e.politics...
News arrived via Katrin Verclas today that online advocacy provider Convio (which recently ingested competitor GetActive) is opening itself up to the wider world of online advocacy. According to the company’s Open Initiative site, Convio is...
Interesting move: Google has stopped publication of a political campaign’s search ads that used MoveOn.org as a hook. According to The Examiner, The ads banned by Google were placed by a firm working for Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ re...
Get into politics, find yourself shredded in public — even if you’re twelve years old. When Graeme Frost delivered the Democrats’ weekly two-minute radio message a few days ago and focused on the Childrens’ Health Insurance...
Cross-posted on techPresident The Democratic National Committee continued their consistently excellent use of an email list today with a message keyed to local political organizing: Our organizing plan for 2008 has one critical component: you. Next...
Michael Bassik reports today in techPrez about some changes to Facebook that should make it a much better platform for political organizing. Specifically, by January, the “success penalty” for building a large Facebook Group should...
Washington Post online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas wrote over the weekend on the Obama campaign’s use of niche social networking sites for voter outreach: And as of Friday, he’s the first candidate to have profiles on...