Dave Leichtman is the Democratic Strategist for Microsoft’s Campaign Tech Services and the Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Read Dave’s previous work on Epolitics.com. As Colin noted last week, much hay has been...
Quick Hits returns! Update: In Defense of Political Email. Democratic House Candidates Are Walloping Republicans in the Small-Money Game. How campaigns are losing the mobile war. Mobile site fail, large-scale. Twitter users mock Colorado school...
New feature! Regular Epolitics.com contributor and friend-of-the-site Beth Becker has just launched a “Political Social Grab Bag” email newsletter, and she’s been kind enough to share it with us. Rock and roll! I’ve excerpted...
Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Election Magazine Technology Bytes column is now online, so be sure to check it out. This is the last edition to hit the public eye before Election Day, and we went with a series of shorter pieces to pack as much...
Quick Hits: back from a late-summer vacation and ready to rumble. 2014 could be a $4 Billion Election. Meanwhile, Will field organizing yield Dems 1-2 points in close Senate races? Also note the Democratic money advantage, in part due to online...
The DNC Knows Everything About You. “Learning from the Obama presidential campaigns, the Democrats are rolling out a sophisticated national ground game they hope will get ‘souls to the polls.'” Ferguson Highway Patrol Captain...
By now most of you will have seen the latest nonprofit fundraising effort to catch the moment and ride a wave of attention, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Some recent stories in the mainsteam media have blasted this particular effort, but for those...
In which our late-summer languor smacks right into reality. Social media has given black people in Ferguson what the police cannot. C.f. The Night Social Media Exploded Over Ferguson and Watch: The Night Social Media Lit Up as Violence Flared in...
Here’s a quick tip from a social media discussion I sat in on sometime last spring (my notes have evaporated, alas, or I’d give a shout-out to whoever suggested it). If you’re publishing regularly on Facebook, consider taking a...
Hi folks, just a quick reminder about Thursday’s digital strategy webinar. I hope you can make it. Webinar: Digital Strategy for Practical Advocacy Presenter: Colin Delany, Epolitics.com Thursday, August 14, 2014 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM...