The Conclusion of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Winning in 2010 2010 will not be 2008: for one thing, we aren’t likely to see the massive voter turnout that helped put Barack Obama in the White House. As in other political...
Part Four of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 What Dean and Kerry suggested in 2004, Barack Obama proved in 2008: an army of motivated online donor/volunteers can be a truly decisive force in politics. And with software designed to...
Hi y’all, remember that little series on How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010? It’s been on hold for the past few weeks for various reasons; more on at least one of them soon. But with the first three chapters in the can...
Some news on the publishing front — Karen Jagoda of the E-Voter Institute has put out a new book on the internet’s role in the political world, and one section derives from a piece I wrote for her earlier report on social networking and...
Sure the internet might have put Obama in the White House, but can it get me elected mayor? Well, not me — I’ve spent the last 20 years disqualifying myself from any office involving the public trust — but how about someone with a...
Part Three of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Once a campaign has the basic technology in place, it can begin to take full advantage of the internet’s ability to deliver donors, volunteers and voters. Much of a...
Part Two of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Using the internet for politics may seem new, but most online campaigning at some level just reincarnates classic political acts in digital form. For instance, you can think of a website...
Part One of a series Barack Obama won’t be on the ballot in November of 2010, but thousands of other candidates will — and he’ll be very much on their minds. His public image will shape the American political environment, of...
As of 4 AM today, the “Learning from Obama” e-book had been downloaded 2057 times — due of course to the work of everyone who’s linked to it, posted it, forwarded it, Twittered it or maybe even mentioned it in one of those...
Well, that little “Learning from Obama” e-book‘s been out for a little over a week now, so how’s it going? First off, thanks to everybody who’s helped spread the word — from Facebook to Gmail to the blogs...