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...
Back in the day, my Dad’s favorite technique to get me to do something a little beyond my self-assessed abilities was to “make a deal with me.” He’d say, I’ll buy this model ship kit that you wish to possess and place...
Part Five of a six-part series Obama’s platform may have envisioned a grand reform of the political system, but the primary change he brought to political fundraising was to do more of it than anyone in history: 3 million donors made a total...
Low has the legal profession fallen — this just in from my old colleague and source for good hip hop JK, who’s currently at NYU law school: I was walking to class yesterday when I saw one of my friends carrying around your “Online...
Part Three of a six-part series With a team in place and technology under development, the Obama campaign wasted no time in building their most important resource: the list of volunteers who would work to elect the Illinois senator president. And...
Part One of a six-part series Without the internet, Barack Obama would still be the junior senator from Illinois. Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably...
Hi y’all, I’m fixin’ to publish the first of what’s planned as a six-part series on the lessons of the Obama campaign for other online communicators, political and commercial. The second article will go live tomorrow...
The process of putting together a conference presentation for this Friday, while also planning out a series of articles on Obama campaign lessons, has yielded a nice side benefit: a list of articles about Obama’s presidential campaign and how...
This publication is now several years out of date! Please see “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014” and its successors for an updated digital politics guide. Almost two years in the making, the new version of “Online Politics...