Tired of all the Twitter talk? A little online advertising should provide just the antidote — no collaborative culture required, only a cynical desire to manipulate the public for your own ends. Or to try a different spin, a need to provide...
With Obama campaign staff reporting a “ridiculously” high Return On Investment for list-building search ads and Google giving Grants to nonprofit advocacy groups like a crack dealer handing out freebies in a new territory (and for much...
Vote early! Vote often! Well, at least vote… Golden Dot Award voting ends tomorrow, March 27, at 5 pm “Beltway” time. Vote now for the 2009 Golden Dot award winners. Golden Dot Awards recognize achievement in online politics. To be...
At a Progressive Communicators of DC lunch today, Mike McCurry made a lot of good points about modern political communications — between the Monica Lewinsky jokes clearly intended to ease what sounded like residual pain from his years as Bill...
Whew, that was one hell of a week-and-half — South By Southwest is so overwhelming and immersive that you’re almost glad when it’s over, though the real world feels flat and quiet by comparison. Work is a relief, a familiar groove...
When you’re the director of social media for General Motors, you have a political job whether you expect it or not. At an SXSW panel on the “Digital Tsunami” that brews up around breaking news events, GM’s Christopher Barger...
Political search advertising has come up a couple of times on the site lately, once in connection with the Obama campaign and once involving a 2010 Senate race. Even if you can’t make it to Search Engine Strategies in March, DC’ers still...
This one just got nailed down — on March 25th, I’ll be participating in the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo in NYC. It’s a five-day event focused on search marketing and search engine optimization, and I’ll be on...
One quick observation from the Fem2.0 conference — during the current plenary session, a six-person panel discussion, the organizers are displaying the event’s Twitter feed (#fem2) on a screen behind the panelists. The benefit is that it...
With the holidays long past and the Inauguration frenzy over (at least mostly — I’m STILL fighting a cold no-doubt brought to town by a visiting Obamamaniac), the consulting and training sides of the e.politics industrial machine are...