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...
As you might have guessed from the big, fat graphic to the right, that series of articles I did about Obama’s online campaign is finally edited into convenient e-book format, just in time for this week’s Netroots Nation panel discussion...
Whew, it’s good to have that little article series about the Obama campaign done — except that it’s not quite. I wrote those six pieces over a period of four months, and they do need a few changes before I’m completely...
Hmmm, looking more like Sunday for that final Obama piece — packaging up a design and specs for a site took more time than I expected this week. I’m doing the design, the marketing plan and the site spec, but another firm is building the...