Q: How do you get two million people to donate to your campaign? A: Start with 1,999,999…. (Related joke: what’s the easiest way to get a small fortune? Start with a big one.). Seriously, last week the Obama campaign employed a classic...
Veep alert = cash call. Team Obama uses the Veepstakes to drive fundraising. C.f. Obama Plans Novel VP Announcement TXT. Update: Now he has online ads centering around it. Liberals Ask Justice to Probe McCain Bundler. MoveOn has a multi-front...
Update: the straight dope from the instigator of the Lefty “Twitterbomb” against #DontGo, and additional coverage from tPrez. Man, this #dontgo thing certainly does seem to have the Rs fired up, at least the Rs who are on Twitter. If...
Hey kids, better sign up quick for the August 13th IPDI (Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet) Book Discussion, ’cause this time we’re covering Online Politics 101 LIVE and IN PERSON (I’ll bring the beer). Seats...
Update: The Commentocracy rises online. Road Trip! Young Republicans Blog and Twitter Their Way Across the U.S. The internet changes a small town in North Carolina. Multiply by an entire planet. McCain’s Web Site Traffic Surges, But Obama...
Monster mid-summer catch-up edition, straight from Austin, Texas. Update: Microtargeting: Myth vs. Fact? Update: Questions About McCain’s Tech Savvy Worry Bloggers on the Right. Update: Should Government Employees Blog? Vocus Webinar Explores...
Okay, I’m guilty: the first thing I did when I saw the New Yorker Obama-in-the-White House cover was laugh — I’m a sucker for satire, and that sucker is spot-on. If the target was to parody the crazy-forwarded-email-meets-Fox News...
In which e.politics awakens from a short summer nap. Update: Auto-replace as a political tool — with blowback. Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? Obama Network Organizes and Revolts Over Spying...
Below are resources for a little presention I like to call,
Cheap, Quick and (Sometimes) Dirty: Creating Integrated Online Campaigns Using Off-The-Shelf Parts
(Delivered at the DemocracyInAction Conference on June 26, 2008)