My roofdeck may still be off-limits due to disrepair and my shady past, but where there’s a will, there’s a way — and in this case, there’s a way to throw a… Spontaneous Summer Party at The Reef: An Epolitics.com...
One of the more maddening stories (for a Democrat) that I read today? Coverage in US News’s Washington Whispers blog of an analysis from OhMyGov of Tweets submitted during yesterday’s Obama “Twitter Town Hall.” Maddening why...
Update: Watch the town hall live feed via Ustream at 2 pm Eastern on July 6th below. Glorious times for the internets! President Obama will take to Twitter tomorrow — kind of — to take questions from Us the People. I say “kind...
Updated below. Google+ went live for the masses today (assuming you got in before the system stopped taking new users), meaning that the search giant has taken another stab at social networking — and at staving off the threat of Facebook. How...
Here’s a fun (and fundamental) mistake to avoid: don’t promote a web address for your campaign until you’re sure you’ve actually bought it…. You see, the New Jersey branch of Americans for Prosperity recently launched a...
So there I was, innocently puttering around the e.politics bunker last night with the Military Channel on in the background (a show on CIA spycraft! Yum), when all of a sudden Mike Huckabee’s Southern drawl rolled out of my fine 150-watt 1993...
Words of wisdom from RadCampaign’s Allyson Kapin, a friend and colleague in the online politics world: Of course, this isn’t new advice (parts of it are also in the list-building and social network chapters of Online Politics 101), but...
Here’s something to chew on while you’re waiting for those promised Netroots Nation after-action reports: the results of an attempt to use Facebook advertising as the primary paid outreach tool for a ballot-initiative campaign. And...
Whew, that was one hell of a long weekend, full of panels, presentations and parties — good thing I’m a trained schmoozer, ’cause this was no place for amateurs. One highlight of the trip? Our Left Meets Right/Right Meets Left...
Howdy folks! I’m off to Minneapolis with my National Women’s Law Center colleague Danielle Jackson for the Netroots Nation conference, where we’ll be learnin’ and schmoozin’ with some of the finest folks in the...