One of the more maddening stories (for a Democrat) that I read today? Coverage in US News’s Washington Whispers blog of an analysis from OhMyGov of Tweets submitted during yesterday’s Obama “Twitter Town Hall.” Maddening why...
Update: Watch the town hall live feed via Ustream at 2 pm Eastern on July 6th below. Glorious times for the internets! President Obama will take to Twitter tomorrow — kind of — to take questions from Us the People. I say “kind...
New Online Politics 101 chapter Twitter is the newest significant weapon in the online politics arsenal: while it was a very limited arena as recently as the 2008 elections (Barack Obama had all of 50,000 followers by Election Day!), it’s...
From five entries to eight — that’s how much the Simple Rules section has changed as the Online Politics 101 rewrite has progressed. Here’s the (final?) new rule, added today, which takes its place along two other new colleagues:...
New Online Politics 101 Chapter Whew, that was a long slog, wasn’t it? But after 20+ chapters, now YOU have the potential to be a master of online political communications, and if you’re lucky (and good), you might just get to spark...
The Online Politics 101 rewrite continues! Hot on the heels of Sunday’s observation about the tools not caring who uses them, here’s another addition to the Simple Rules for Online Politics: Knowing that you’re right isn’t...
Dug in deep down here in the bunker at E.politics World Headquarters, we’ve been cranking away over the holidays on a much-needed rewrite of the venerable (and much-downloaded) Online Politics 101 guide. The new version should be out within a...
Also published on The Huffington Post The dominant mood at Netroots Nation a couple of weeks ago? Determination — the activists, bloggers and campaign staff who attended were united in the desire to help Democrats win as many races as possible...
The new Old Spice guy weighs in on a political question — how Obama can build his support among the Ladies, er, the female voters of America. Monocle smile! Via Facebook’s own Adam Conner. Update: Mashable has great numbers on this video...
Social media consultants, start your engines — and head on over to Idealware.org. Laura Quinn and company are working on a new guide to social media for nonprofits, which includes an opportunity for consultants (like me and many of you) to...