Y’all oughta know by now that I’m a huge fan of Austin’s South By Southwest festival, despite what it does to my poor, battered mind and body. This year I’m damn happy to have helped put together a SXSW Interactive panel idea...
The current Campaigns & Elections TechBytes column went online today, and it’s chock-full of goodies for you fine people to enjoy. First up, Obama Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani and others talk a about the limits of data in political...
Content marketing is a hot topic in the political advocacy world, and for good reason: particularly in a social media-influenced communications environment, content is what spreads our messaging, attracts new supporters and helps us achieve our...
Be sure to check out Ben Pershing and Fredrick Kunkle’s Post examination of voter targeting in the race for Virginia governor: Republican Ken Cuccinelli II and Democrat Terry McAuliffe are running parallel scavenger hunts for Virginians...
One last long weekend before the September frenzy descends upon DC…time to read a book. I just finished Nicco Mele’s The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath and I recommend you check it out as well — it’s...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by CrowdTangle. Note: posts are now embedded! Which helps to make up for the fact that I’m running these several days later...
Politics attracts weirdos. Sure, it also attracts plenty of earnest, responsible activists and public servants, but it brings in more than its share of fringe actors — if you’ve ever hung out with a Birther or a 9/11 Truther...
Charles Ellison asked me a good question yesterday: hasn’t Twitter (and by implication, other social channels like Facebook) replaced old-school email as a communications tool for political campaigns? My one-word answer: no. But why? Charles...
The latest issue of Campaigns & Elections magazine landed a week or so back, and I’m sure most of you have devoured your own copies in the days since. But for those few who haven’t yet taken advantage of one of C&E‘s...
A serious case of the Summer Slows has settled into the e.politics bunker lately; even the staff is napping more than usual. With the sun slipping from the sky a little earlier every day, I want to live these last summer moments hard, knowing that...