Micah L. Sifry and Joshua Levy over at Personal Democracy Forum have an excellent compare-and-contrast piece about MyGOP and Partybuilder, new online organizing applications from the RNC and DNC. They look in detail at these new tools, primarily...
Two interesting strategy papers from the New Politics Institute that I’ve been meaning to write up for a while: Use Search and Engage the Blogs. I think they’re on target with their blogger relations advice, particularly their emphasis...
The latest of Alan Rosenblatt’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable discussions covers mobile advocacy, a popular topic this week. Contact the Internet Advocacy Center for more info. Advocacy in the Mobile Age The US is starting to catch up to the...
MobileActive has released a new strategy guide to using mbile phones to register voters, monitor elections and turn people out to the polls. And there’s more to come (from their press release): The MobileActive series of Strategy Guides is...
Quick Hits goes local! Candidates go online for young voters. Staten Island Advance looks at candidate MySpace profiles in races in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Social networking, den of sin and lair of iniquity: the article notes that “a...
A good article almost slipped by while I was on vacation: Mike Dorning at the Chicago Tribune wrote an excellent overview of the current state of online electioneering, hitting everything from viral campaigns to microtargeting to good old-fashioned...
Mary Joyce, whom I met a couple of weeks ago at an event tied to the release of Person to Person to Person, is asking for help on a research project. She’s particularly looking for folks in the developing world, but comments from other online...
Six Apart is hosting an event at the Hotel Monaco next week that looks interesting. Early registration ($75) has been extended through tomorrow, so sign up now and save some cash. Topics include: Corporate Blogging: Building your Strategy and...
Sanford Dickert, former Kerry campaign CTO, has launched a great new site called PoliticalWarez to look at the technology of online politics. From the site’s mission statement: PoliticalWarez is Politics 2.0. Our mission is to identify...
‘Puppets’ Emerge as Internet’s Effective, and Deceptive, Salesmen. Beware the meat puppets! Excellent article by Frank Ahrens in the Post about astroturfing social networking sites, i.e., setting up fake profiles to sell a product...