Hi folks, this post is coming to you live from downtown Chicago, where a bevy of fine digital campaign folks have gathered for C&E’s latest CampaignTech event. Among the assembled luminaries: our old friend Laura Packard, whose work has...
New contributor! Crystal Borde is an associate director at Vanguard Communications, and she joins us with great insights about last week’s congressional live-streaming extravaganza, along with tips for communicators inspired to follow in the...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Alex Dickinson is Director & Chief of Staff with Beekeeper Group. Follow her on Twitter at @alexmae, and be sure to check out last week’s big-picture analysis of the Congressional live-streaming. Remember...
Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give...
God is on the side of the big battalions, or so I hear. Photo via the National Archives. The announcement was essentially inevitable, but let’s still take note: Hillary Clinton can now tap the 20 million-odd supporter email addresses that...
First things first: Periscope may be just over a year old, but live-streaming video isn’t exactly new: I remember being at events broadcast via (now-defunct) Qik more than half a decade ago. And, we first explored the basics of using Periscope...
The Hill’s Jessie Hellman reports: The Donald Trump campaign sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day. That request follows a multimillion-dollar...
Great observation from Mark Hmmer, via The Daily 202: The genius of the Trump Clinton Twitter war of 2016 is that it consumes Trump's every waking minute & Clinton doesn't know it's happening. — Mark Hammer (@markhammer1987)...
Update: Orlando shooter inspired by Islamic extremist information shared online, President Barack Obama says. Update: Orlando shooting exposes Donald Trump’s biggest weakness: A total lack of empathy. Tweets from the Id. Update: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! Of note this time: a near-sweep by one candidate. Guess who? The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the...