Epolitics.com contributor Sangeeth Peruri is the CEO and founder of VoterCircle, a platform that helps campaigns leverage friend-to-friend connections for voter outreach. This post first appeared on VoterCircle’s blog. Now that I have had a...
Hey gang! Looking to ask more of your supporters than signing petitions and pestering Congress via email? Blackbaud’s Jeanette Russell and I have you covered: earlier this year, she and I had the pleasure of putting together the first...
Epolitics.com contributor Deepak Puri has held executive positions at Oracle, Netscape and VMware, and is the founder of SkilledAnalysts.com, an IoT consulting firm, and co-founder of Democracy Labs, a non-profit hub in San Francisco that connects...
New Epolitics.com contributor! But not someone new to the field: I first met Eric Loeb in the early days of internet politics, probably at the 1997 Politics Online Conference. Even before that, on Eric’s first trip to DC, he tried to contact...
Congressional town hall meetings under siege about healthcare? It could be 2009, but it’s not — and the Congressmembers in question are Republicans, not Democrats. Like their Left-leaning colleauges eight years ago, some Republicans are...
New Epolitics.com contributor Dr. Jeff Swift is the author of “Digital Community Organizing: Why Political Power Must be Shared, Not Stored”, which outlines practical strategies for using digital media to build powerful networks. The...
A year ago, we covered the debut of the Clinton campaign’s Twitter posse. Now that we’re in debate season, we get to watch her rally the troops. Pre-debate, her team sends out preparatory messages, like this one that arrived today...
New contributor! Bryan Fratkin is a friend-of-e.politics and the founder of SparkInfluence. He recently noticed that Marco Rubio limits his constituents to small sips of water on the communications front, metaphorically speaking. At SparkInfluence...
Quick thought: when advocates, fundraisers and organizers talk about the “ladder of engagment”, we usually speak in terms of “moving people up.” I.e., we’re getting our supporters to take higher-value actions over time...
Hey kids, let’s celebrate the election year by digging into the sordid past of Epolitics.com, resurrecting posts from 2008 and 2012 for a semi-regular Throwback Thursday feature. First up, that time Obama and Clinton fought over my...