Part Four of a six-part series Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash...
Cross-posted on techPresident Another tip from the Obama campaign: take a solid look at search advertising. At two recent public discussions, members of the winning 2008 new media team have mentioned the effectiveness of Google ads in building the...
Here’s an observation I’ve been meaning to write up since Netroots Nation this summer, but one that seems particularly relevant now as both Democrats and Republicans are getting their first views of their current legislators in action:...
Cross-posted on techPresident and K Street Cafe At a New Organizing Institute presentation this morning, former Obama new media director Joe Rospars (last seen in these pages talking about the importance of good content to the campaign’s work)...
Cross-posted on techPresident An online politics wrap-up article by Jose Antonio Vargas published in the Post this weekend has been working its way through the internet politics crowd over the past couple of days, being posted on Facebook, forwarded...
Cross-posted on techPresident A week or two ago, I happened to catch the C-Span broadcast of a fascinating discussion at Harvard’s Kennedy School — PBS’s Gwen Ifill moderated a panel including David Axelrod and David Plouffe from...
Most coverage of Barack Obama’s online campaign has focused on its scale (13 million email addresses!), the amount of money raised and its use of social networking sites, including the public sites like MySpace/Facebook and the “walled...
Cross-posted on techPresident and K Street Cafe Now that the details are slooowly creeping out and we have a clearer idea of the Obama election team’s online numbers, what conclusions can we draw for the future? Right off the bat, Jose Antonio...
This just in from a friend in Georgia, who’s a little disheartened about how today’s senatorial runoff election seems to be going: On the plus side, I did get three personal calls — one from Bill Clinton, one from Michelle Obama...
Guest article! The first in a while, too. This piece was sent in by long-time reader and friend-of-e.politics Ha-Hoa Hamano, and was written by her boss, Chris Casey of NGP Software. It originally appeared on the NGP site. Campaign Web Sites, The...