Hey kids! Don’t forget tomorrow’s panel discussion at the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet on using social networking sites and social media/user-generated content for political organizing. It’s tied to the...
According to the On The Download column at Hotline On Call, incumbent Texas Governor Rick Perry is buying full-length ad spots at the beginning of downloadable news video clips, normally more of a corporate ad strategy. Online news would seem to be...
Two interesting pieces from vendors in the last few days. First, Pam Fielding at E-Advocates has an article about integrating print and online materials into an activist-building campaign, and takes the opportunity to hawk a new print-on-demand...
This week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants over at Kivi Leroux Miller’s Blog on Nonprofit Communications has some great resources, and I ain’t just sayin’ that ’cause they picked up my story on the Post and social...
Tonight is Hank Dearden’s Second Tuesday New Media Cocktails and Networking happy hour. Make valuable contacts! Meet charming vendors! Eat tasty appetizers! Get ripped and risk utter humiliation in front of your peers (mmmm, my favorite)...
PoliticsOnline and the World E-Gov Forum have posted their nominations for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics. Cast your vote today! Two friends of e.politics are nominated — Care2 and Alan Rosenblatt’s...
Is targeted direct mail the best way to tar an opponent while minimizing backlash? Today’s much-blogged-about Post article on GOP plans for negative campaigning in the Fall contains this nugget, which I’ll expand on: Direct-mail appeals...
A lot of Democrats are up in arms about ABC’s upcoming miniseries, “The Path to 9/11” — an email I got from the Democratic Party described it as “a bald-faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right before...
They sound like something out of a B-grade science fiction movie, but splogs are a serious danger to the use of blogs as a communications tool for politics or any other subject. What are they? Spam blogs, set up automatically and by the thousands...
Next Friday, September 15th, the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet is hosting a half-day seminar tied to the release of their latest publication, Person-to-Person-to-Person: Harnessing the Political Power of Online Social Networks...