The message below came in recently from an alert reader, who received it from Al Gore/Repower America and passed it along because she thought it was a great example of how to really lay it on too thick in a mass email. The online tool itself that...
If Creigh Deeds manages to pull off a victory in today’s race for Virginia governor, it won’t be because Republican Bob McDonnell was slack online. In fact, McDonnell’s internet campaign has been impressively comprehensive, meaning...
Below are articles related to today’s presentation. Reaching the “Network Influentials” Digital-Age Media Relations: Pitching Stories in a Challenging News Environment What a Modern Communications Team Looks Like Twitter is NOT a...
Part Three of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Once a campaign has the basic technology in place, it can begin to take full advantage of the internet’s ability to deliver donors, volunteers and voters. Much of a...
Part Two of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Using the internet for politics may seem new, but most online campaigning at some level just reincarnates classic political acts in digital form. For instance, you can think of a website...
Also published on techPresident and K Street Cafe Another Twitter-inspired idea from Thursday’s CAP/Internet Advocacy Roundtable discussion: when Alan Rosenblatt talked about Tweeting to “influence the influentials,” he...
The folks over at the Hatcher Group have taken on an interesting project: they’ve surveyed 30 advocacy groups working on state-level issues to find out how they’re using the ‘net in their work. They started with an extensive...
Part One of a series Barack Obama won’t be on the ballot in November of 2010, but thousands of other candidates will — and he’ll be very much on their minds. His public image will shape the American political environment, of...
If you couldn’t make it to our panel at Netroots Nation (i.e., you weren’t there/awake/sober yet when we went on at 10:30 AM on the first day), fret no more! Conference panels were recorded, and the video from our session (“Scaling...
More details now on our Netroots Nation panel, which will focus on using what we’ve all learned from the Obama campaign, and not just the part about raising money online. The panel now includes, besides me: Judith Freeman — with the New...