Some of us in the online politics space have wondered what Obama 2012 would roll out to replace 2008’s MyBarackObama.com, and now we know: the Wall Street Journal has the scoop on the campaign’s new “Dashboard” grassroots organizing tool. The article’s behind the...
Read More »Saturday’s Washington Post article about big conservative money flooding into House and Senate races is just the latest sign of this year’s changing post-Citizens United political landscape. The fear among Democrats? That wealthy Republicans will pour so much money into down-ballot...
Read More »Big day for technology rollouts! The Republican Party proudly released its new grassroots-engagement Facebook App today, which got coverage in a few outlets including the Christian Science Monitor, where I got a couple of solid quotes: “At some level, what they’ve done is...
Read More »Update: by popular request, here’s the link to the resource page referred to in the audio clip — I forgot it the first time around. Good news — our South by Southwest panel discussion on the Occupy movement as an example of the power of citizen journalism is online! Listen to...
Read More »Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has already spent heavily on staff and infrastructure, but it’s revealing that they’re continuing to build the data-driven side of their grassroots operation. For a good example, check out the job posting below, which floated around on...
Read More »For another of the occasional glimpses we get of the Obama campaign’s comprehensive effort to re-energize his 2008 online supporters, check out this article from The Times, which came out right before I ran off to Austin for SXSW: With a “chief scientist” specializing in...
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