One less-public side of the online politics world involves the blizzard of emails and texts that fly between political communications staff and reporters just about every day. The communicators’ goal: to influence reporting and shift the...
Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident Not content to have started the “Demon Sheep” meme that gave such joy to so many earlier in the month, California’s Carly Fiorina decided to relaunch her “Call Me...
Below are resources for the Craigslist Foundation 2008 Nonprofit Boot Camp in NYC. The topic? Online Communications On A Shoestring. The presenters? E.politics (hey kids!) and Laura S. Quinn of Idealware. Questions? Drop me a line. Update:...
I almost missed it in the pre-holiday frenzy, but last week Kate Kaye of Clickz wrote up an excellent way to use Google Ads (in this case funded by a Google Grant) to hitch your promotional wagon to a presidential candidate’s star: The...
Okay, maybe not tawdry, but certainly cheap: writing for Laura Quinn at Idealware, Alan Rosenblatt (newly of the Center for American Progress) has put together an excellent overview of low-cost online advocacy tools. Need to reach supporters via...
Hi y’all, a friend of e.politics who shall remain nameless ([cough] Laura S. Quinn [cough]) has written in to highlight the TechSoup NetSquared Innovation Awards, the voting for which ends today at 5:00 Pacific time (8 pm in dog years). 150 no...
Earlier today, I had a question about cheap/free email list management options, so I asked a big group of progressive web folks which applications they’d recommend. The results were impressively broad, and I’ve gathered them up in one...
My brief fling with Idealware has finally come to fruition together, we have given birth to a brave new article about participatory media. What are we talking about? Tools like video sharing sites, blogs, social networking sites, social media...