Steve Castleton made a great point in our “Getting Your Online Campaign off the Ground” session at the Art of Political Campaigning last week — think of visitors to your website as impulse buyers and design accordingly. Act like...
Guest article! The latest from PowerThru’s Laura Packard, originally published on the PowerThru blog. Say it’s time for your organization to do a website redesign, or your campaign needs a new website for the campaign launch or post...
If you missed last night’s fiery discussion about advocacy websites, never fear: you can watch the video here (the action starts about five minutes in). We had a great conversation with some honest (and passionate) disagreement — quite a...
Another guest article from our friend Laura Packard with PowerThru Consulting! This time she’s talking about Search Engine Optimization, but you can also check out her past Epolitics.com articles. This piece first appeared on the PowerThru...
President Obama is none too pleased with HealthCare.gov, we learned today: “There’s no sugarcoating it: The Web site is too slow; people have been getting stuck in the application process,” Obama said. “And I think it is fair...
A fascinating online ad popped up for me* for the first time this weekend: the “Fast Terry” piece to the right. At first I thought it was produced by Republican Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign, since it takes on Democrat Terry McAuliffe...
The health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act came online Tuesday, and judging by most accounts, their main problem was a good one: popularity. Some of the exchange sites saw so much traffic from people interested in signing up...
The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman verdict dominated the news this weekend, with the internet no exception. Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman...
Howdy folks, I’ve been asked a couple of times lately which sites to follow to learn more about digital politics and advocacy, besides Epolitics.com. Others apparently get the same question, too: Julie Germany posted her own list today. Read...
Web tech site Nettuts+ has a must-read (for online politics and technology nerds) interview with Daniel Ryan, OFA’s Director of Frontend Development. The article covers a lot of ground in great detail, looking both at the technology the...