How did social media play in the UK General Election last month? The Conservatives won at the polls, but how did they do online? British Firm Integrity Search has the numbers — see the infographic below for details. The upshot: Labour had far...
Update: A couple of Loyal Readers sent in articles about a Rand Paul fundraising video released Friday that may have broken Senate rules by using footage from a speech on the Senate floor. Oops! Still, that error doesn’t take away from the...
Hillary Clinton received kudos when her campaign first launched for a 404 error/”File Not Found” page that broke the mold. Featuring an old photo of her family with someone dressed as apparently as Donald Duck and apparently at a...
Today we got a glimpse of some cool data from the folks at the “Peoria Project”, a new initiative at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. This project is using social-analysis tools to measure the...
Howdy folks, welcome to the work frenzy the week before a holiday always seems to bring! If you need a study break, we’ve got you covered: head on over to CampaignsandElections.com to check out the latest edition of Technology Bytes...
A political campaign is a complex beast: from messaging to fundraising to field, campaign organizers have a huge number of parts to build, integrate and coordinate. The digital side is no exception, particularly at the presidential level. Staff have...
Author’s Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful relationships with an infinite number of people. In Part Two, I...
Michelle Coyle Edwards is Vice President of Rising Tide Interactive (RTI). Read her previous work on Epolitics.com. When Hillary Clinton made her much–anticipated announcement that she’d be running for president, the inevitability of the act led...
Word to the wise: get your Ready for Hillary gear now, while it’s 40% off. Sale ends at midnight tonight! At least, according to an email that just hit the old e.politics inbox. And no, Republican friends, it’s not because Ms...
New Epolitics.com contributor Will Conway (of NationBuilder) starts a three-part series in which he thinks big about a major change technology is bringing to political campaigns and political organizing. In the years since the 2012 election cycle, a...