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...
One excellent point from today’s Politics Online panel on email advocacy and fundraising: James Wong described email as the hub around which the social media world revolves. What did he mean? Without email, most social tools like Facebook and...
Well, that was a substantial break — only two short pieces in the past month, and one of those largely a reprint…nice work if you can get it. But a blog is a harsh mistress, and this one can only be denied for so long. So despite a layer...
More good stories than we could possibly deserve. RNC document mocks donors, plays on ‘fear’, which of course sparks a Democratic fundraising drive in response. But the Empire strikes back: RNC email raises money off of Rangel. In a...
All the online politics news that’s fit to link to. MoveOn backing challenger to Sen. Blanche Lincoln. C.f. A local take on the race. Searching for Saddam: A five-part series on how the U.S. military used social networking to capture the Iraqi...
Hey y’all, disregard that earlier message about rewriting Online Politics 101 — that endeavor’s still in the hopper, but a quick update to How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 has taken precedence. Between RootsCamp...
Let’s keep this one to a manageable size and catch up with the advocacy blogs next time. Update: @BarackObama, the president’s Twitter account, asks supporters to turn their icons into a jobs graph. Recovery Act – Year One and...
Here’s a quick President’s Day pledge — give me a week or three and I’ll get out a new version of Online Politics 101. Last updated in the summer of 2008, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, as a couple of readers...