A nice distinction came up in a conversation earlier this week: writing good headlines and subject lines is a creative art, but picking the right ones to use is pure science. Good headlines walk a tricky path in the digital world: they have to feed...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 700 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: lots of love for Germany’s new college funding plan, several new voices on...
Mark Ryland of Amazon Web Services made a fun observation at a Tech@State presentation this afternoon: if you add the word “cloud” to any technology marketing effort, it becomes much significantly cooler. Cloudwashing! I love it–...
Quick Hits returns! Update: In Defense of Political Email. Democratic House Candidates Are Walloping Republicans in the Small-Money Game. How campaigns are losing the mobile war. Mobile site fail, large-scale. Twitter users mock Colorado school...
New feature! Regular Epolitics.com contributor and friend-of-the-site Beth Becker has just launched a “Political Social Grab Bag” email newsletter, and she’s been kind enough to share it with us. Rock and roll! I’ve excerpted...
Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups’ grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections...
“Mommy, where were you during the Great Email Deluge of 2014?” Democratic email fundraising may not quite have reached the level of a Global Catastrophe yesterday, but it sure as hell got talked about: I heard an earful at a NARAL...
Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Election Magazine Technology Bytes column is now online, so be sure to check it out. This is the last edition to hit the public eye before Election Day, and we went with a series of shorter pieces to pack as much...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: for those about to rant, we salute you! A special note to our readers-via-email:...
We’ve talked already about early signs of the potential of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s field organizing to deliver votes in places like Iowa and North Carolina, but the SCALE of the operation they’re building is...