Listen to your mom: wash your hands before dinner, and don’t forget to clean your data before sending out direct mail. Mark Harris of Students for Saving Social Security, who spoke at last week’s Politics Online panel on campaigning on a...
Last week, the big dog of the Internet world jumped the fence and bounded into DC: for the first time, Google was an inescapable presence at a Politics Online Conference, with a heavy sponsorship role, two full presentations and a Google Lounge...
Guest article! The inimitable Susan Finkelpearl of Free Range Studios has written up a Politics Online panel discussion on the promise of mobile technology as a tool for campaign organizing. Pull you up a chair and chew on THIS for a little while:...
On March 16th, I moderated a Politics Online panel covering online tactics for campaigns with limited resources. Below are background materials, starting with a drive-by look at the pluses and minuses of some typically low-cost tools, continuing...
Through some bizarre miscarriage of justice, e.politics won a Golden Dot award last night as “Best Blog — National Politics.” I’m as mystified as you, though I ain’t exactly complaining. Seriously, I’m happy as...
You ever shocked to learn about something that you realize maybe you should have known about before? (“What’s up with this Nirvana band — are they new?”) At NOI last week, I had one of those moments when Carly Dobbins-Bucklad...
The random byproducts of three very busy days online. Not all entirely on topic, but easily digestible nonetheless. Time reporter credits blogosphere for keeping Federal prosecutor story alive in the face of mainstream media indifference. “And...
An excellent presentation at last week’s NOI training examined the power of using your online campaign to gin up “earned media” (free media coverage as opposed to paid advertising), with Adam Green of MoveOn and Trevor Fitzgibbon...
A couple of groovy events are looming in DC’s near future and you’ll hate yourself if you miss them, I guarantee. First off, tonight is the second Tuesday of the month, a perfect time for Hank Dearden and the Capital Cabal’s Second...
Last week’s NOI online advocacy training turned out to be a real hoot and quite informative to boot. Our little Wired/Tired/Expired exercise was a hit, with participants dividing into groups to come up with their own WTE matrices for common...