Author - Colin Delany

Facebook as a Political Organizing Tool

Hi folks, I’m just back from a long weekend whitewater rafting in West Virginia — nothing like a solid dose of 55-degree water and sheer terror to focus the mind. A bunch of potential articles have piled up over the four days I’ve...

Why Did our Poor Site Have to Crash and Burn?

14th Colony looks at 13 reasons websites fail, ranging from stale content to a shattered budget to a complete lack of promotion. Good reading for anyone involved in an online project — behind each of these points lie a lot of broken dreams and...

Another Event this Thursday: Mobile Advocacy

The latest of Alan Rosenblatt’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable discussions covers mobile advocacy, a popular topic this week. Contact the Internet Advocacy Center for more info. Advocacy in the Mobile Age The US is starting to catch up to the...

Quick Hits — October 15, 2006

Quick Hits goes local! Candidates go online for young voters. Staten Island Advance looks at candidate MySpace profiles in races in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Social networking, den of sin and lair of iniquity: the article notes that “a...

Did MySpace Win a Maryland Election?

A good article almost slipped by while I was on vacation: Mike Dorning at the Chicago Tribune wrote an excellent overview of the current state of online electioneering, hitting everything from viral campaigns to microtargeting to good old-fashioned...

Help Needed on Research Project

Mary Joyce, whom I met a couple of weeks ago at an event tied to the release of Person to Person to Person, is asking for help on a research project. She’s particularly looking for folks in the developing world, but comments from other online...