If you’re running for office in 2018, what should you be doing right now? Former Congressional candidate Andy Millard and I talked through that question in detail on the sidelines of C&E’s CampaignExpo conference a couple of weeks...
New Epolitics.com contributor Dr. Jeff Swift is the author of “Digital Community Organizing: Why Political Power Must be Shared, Not Stored”, which outlines practical strategies for using digital media to build powerful networks. The...
This post first appeared on the InterAction blog. Do you want to succeed at online advocacy? Of course you do! Fortunately, thousands of us have been toiling away in this field for years. In the process, we’ve done just about everything wrong...
Of course it’s a trick question, since the answer is always going to be, “it depends”. Your circumstances influence the balance point between data and content, but one is rarely as useful as it could be without the other. All the...
With Obamacare signups ahead of projections and the machinery moving (relatively) smoothly, Democrats can finally grab a breath — the post-launch panic isn’t needed any more. Instead, it’s time we took a calculating look at how a...
Since I started spreading the word a few weeks back that I was launching a digital strategy business, plenty of people have come to me with a single question: just what IS digital strategy? A simple question, for sure, but one with an answer...
Guest article! Today’s announcement of the selection of a new pope inspired contributor Kayle Hatt to examine the Vatican’s rapid response communications, with an eye toward what advocacates and political communicators can learn. See...
Updated below. So now we know — Obama For America will relaunch as a political nonprofit. People had been speculating about the future of Obama’s grassroots juggernaut for months, particularly since the campaign started surveying its...
Two weeks ago, Jon Stewart nailed the disconnect between what Obama’s campaign has asked of his supporters all year long and what he delivered himself at the first presidential debate: You and your campaign have demanded a level of effort...
Howdy folks, your redoutable Epolitics.com editorial team (i.e., me) is back from The Burn with about 2000 photographs and even more stories — some of which I might be able to tell in public! But for now, back to politics — and to the...