If you’re in DC or headed this way in the next days, be sure to check out Digital Capital Week, a celebration of onine technology and culture that kicks off today. I’m planning to hit as many of the events as I can, beginning with...
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...
Josh Koster and Tyler Davis’s follow-up to yesterday’s piece on early-in-cycle list-building advertising. See also their earlier Ten Commandments of Campaign Social Media, all excerpted from the (free to download) Digital Political...
The latest from Martin Matheny (blog, Twitter), whose recent exploration of Nine Things Campaigns Shouldn’t Forget in the Gee-Whiz World of the Social Web was a big hit here. Capitol Hill Democrats and Social Media: The Sky is Not Falling Martin...
New guest author! Check out the post below for the first of what I hope will be many articles from political consultant Martin Matheny (blog, Twitter), who comes to us with a terrific set of tips for campaigns using social media. Nine Things...
One quick point before I hop a plane back to DC — as you’re absorbing the media and the punditry’s attempts to Understand The Meaning of Tuesday’s primary losses by Arlen Spector in Pennsylvania and Trey Grayson in Kentucky...
For more, see this take on the fundamental insincerity of YouCut Just got a call from a reporter looking for context on the latest pay-attention-to-me trick from House Republicans, announced today by Eric Cantor — they’re now going to...
Also published on The Huffington Post At dinner the other night, a friend and I ended up talking about ways to drag one of the more hierarchical and hidebound segments of the Progressive Movement (a.k.a. The Great Leftist Conspiracy) into the modern...
Here’s a quick point that never hurts to repeat: asking people to send a message to Congress through an online advocacy system mean that you have to DELIVER the emails via the internet. In fact, it’s usually more effective to print them...
CQ’s Daniel Newhauser picked up on a good story late last week — Minnesota Governor and presumed 2012 Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has “crowdsourced” his backing, allowing his supporters to vote to decide...