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...
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...
Six Apart is hosting an event at the Hotel Monaco next week that looks interesting. Early registration ($75) has been extended through tomorrow, so sign up now and save some cash. Topics include: Corporate Blogging: Building your Strategy and...
Sanford Dickert, former Kerry campaign CTO, has launched a great new site called PoliticalWarez to look at the technology of online politics. From the site’s mission statement: PoliticalWarez is Politics 2.0. Our mission is to identify...
‘Puppets’ Emerge as Internet’s Effective, and Deceptive, Salesmen. Beware the meat puppets! Excellent article by Frank Ahrens in the Post about astroturfing social networking sites, i.e., setting up fake profiles to sell a product...
Oh Hill staffers, so dewy-eyed and young, when will you learn that IP numbers are easy to trace, email is eternal, and that Google can reunite stolen words with their source in seconds? A superfun article by Aaron Blake in The Hill has a slew of...
Hey kids! I’m off for a few days, heading to Kansas to see what’s wrong with the place (hint: it’ll involve a serious shortage of liquor once we’re through with the joint). Two of my best friends are getting married to each...
Well, Capitol Advantage sure as hell stirred up the nest when their study of advocacy email deliverability rates hit the Post on Monday. In the days since, other vendors have been scrambling and practitioners have been debating, but it’s also...
Former Congressman Foley has now learned what so many politicians and corporate executives have found before — emails and IMs live forever. A whispered conversation can be forgotten and a piece of paper burned, but digital communications are...
Stepping back from the email precipice for a minute (that Cap Ad study has been stirring up some BIG waves in the online advocacy world), ealier this year the Bivings Report conducted a study of how campaigns for U.S. Senate were using the internet...