Yes I know, to those of us in The Profession, it sounds like a rhetorical question: can social media win the presidential election?. Of course the answer’s “no” — it’s incredibly rare for a single factor of any kind to...
Woo hoo, the first presidential debate is tomorrow! Fire up your Tivos, kids, so you don’t miss a second of the non-stop action…and be glad that the professional refs are back on the job. Okay fine, maybe the debates aren’t really...
Campaign 2012 should be decisive in a big bunch of ways — we’ll get a new president and a fundamentally different Congress…or we won’t, for example. But political digerati will be watching for special insights in our own...
Epolitics.com is about to take a two-week hiatus (not for the conventions, either; I leave for the high Nevada desert and Burning Man shortly), so let me leave you with a few questions to occupy your mind in the meantime. As the 2012 election moves...
It’s hard to believe that just a few months ago a bunch of us online political nerds were camped out in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, an experience that damn near killed your Loyal Editor. Besides the audio recording of our...
Another great guest article from our old friend Beth Becker! Bonus: look for Part Two in the next couple of days. Rethinking Social, Part One: Social Media is Social Sharing By Beth Becker For the last two years I’ve begun every social media...
This is the last of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece appeared earlier in the C&E blog...
This is the third of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece appeared earlier in the C&E...
This is the second of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece appeared earlier in the C&E...
This article is the first of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece also appeared in the C&E...