Author - Colin Delany

New Site Looks at Online Political Tools

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...

Quick Hits — October 10, 2006

‘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...

The Internet’s Role in Political Campaigns

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...

More on Delivering Emails to Congress

Hi folks, GetActive has very politely asked that I pull down the numbers I’d posted yesterday on their delivery rates, both because they’re preliminary and for reasons of industry competition. To be neighborly, I’ve done so, though...

More Problems with Email Advocacy

Jeffrey Birnbaum’s K Street Confidential column in today’s Post looks at the problems involved in sending mass emails to Congress, including the fact that many messages never get through and that staff don’t put much stock in those...