Let’s continue our examination of the Big Trends shaping the world of digital politics and advocacy with the second excerpt from Chapter Four of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections [2020 Edition]”...
Sometimes digital politics practitioners are so close to the brushstrokes that we can miss the sweep of the full painting. What are the trends shaping our field? Let’s look at four of the big ones below, with five more in the next installment...
News came late last week that Joe Biden would in fact rely on an in-house digital team rather than outsourcing his online outreach to Mike Bloomberg’s Hawkfish campaign startup. Many in the field thought that hiring a firm with little...
This article is an excerpt from the upcoming 2020 edition of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections. In just two months, the coronavirus pandemic has already upended the plans of political campaigns and advocacy...
Democratic digital staff just conducted an intervention aimed at the Biden campaign, filtered through the words of Politico’s Alex Thompson. In a piece published on Tuesday, Thompson quotes a half-dozen experienced digital campaign staffers...
Coronavirus may have most of us sheltering in place, but advocacy hasn’t stopped. For one thing, I’m hearing that Congressional staff are still on duty, just mainly stationed at home for a while. With that in mind, let’s check out...
A good week on the media front! Check out Andrew Marantz’s in-depth piece on Brad Parscale, which went live on Monday and is apparently in the current print edition (I need to go pick one up). I have a couple of quotes talking about Democratic...
Check out Bethany Snyder’s latest article for us below, which first appeared on the Snyder Strategies blog. For more about nonprofits in an election year, see the recording of the webinar Jean Kordenbrock and I presented in February, which...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Bethany Snyder is the brains behind Snyder Strategies, where she spends her time “bolstering non-profits and social justice organizations through deep advocacy expertise.” Let’s benefit from some of...
My prediction for 2020: volume, volume, volume, at least when it comes to digital advertising. For a start, Donald Trump never really quit running for president after 2016, and he’s already spent tens of millions on Facebook and Google in 2019...