On March 16th, I moderated a Politics Online panel covering online tactics for campaigns with limited resources. Below are background materials, starting with a drive-by look at the pluses and minuses of some typically low-cost tools, continuing...
Through some bizarre miscarriage of justice, e.politics won a Golden Dot award last night as “Best Blog — National Politics.” I’m as mystified as you, though I ain’t exactly complaining. Seriously, I’m happy as...
You ever shocked to learn about something that you realize maybe you should have known about before? (“What’s up with this Nirvana band — are they new?”) At NOI last week, I had one of those moments when Carly Dobbins-Bucklad...
The random byproducts of three very busy days online. Not all entirely on topic, but easily digestible nonetheless. Time reporter credits blogosphere for keeping Federal prosecutor story alive in the face of mainstream media indifference. “And...
An excellent presentation at last week’s NOI training examined the power of using your online campaign to gin up “earned media” (free media coverage as opposed to paid advertising), with Adam Green of MoveOn and Trevor Fitzgibbon...
A couple of groovy events are looming in DC’s near future and you’ll hate yourself if you miss them, I guarantee. First off, tonight is the second Tuesday of the month, a perfect time for Hank Dearden and the Capital Cabal’s Second...
Last week’s NOI online advocacy training turned out to be a real hoot and quite informative to boot. Our little Wired/Tired/Expired exercise was a hit, with participants dividing into groups to come up with their own WTE matrices for common...
Hey kids, I’ll be helping out with an online advocacy training for the next few days — should come out of it with a slew of new articles.
I’m not entirely sure how this happened, though it may have had something to do with the hundred-dollar bill I stapled to the application form, but e.politics has been chosen as one of three finalists in the “Best Blog — National...
DNC Launches Vote Builder. A lefty version of the voter vault? Definitely needed. And it comes as the Right tries to build its own Netroots equivalent. Two greatly contrasting takes on the power of young political activists: they’re getting...