Cross-posted on techPresident As reported on TPM Cafe yesterday, the Obama transition team has named its first online communications staff: Macon Phillips, formerly of Blue State Digital and the Obama campaign, will head new media, and Jesse Lee...
Ready for a blogger relations refresher course? I’m presenting a webinar this afternoon for a group of foreign policy organizations on the tools and tactics used for promoting issues through blogs. You know what that means: time to gather up...
Hidden in the middle of a long Politico piece about in-the-news Republican Congressmember Michele Bachmann is this glimpse at one way to divide a modern communications outreach operation: As a freshman with a lone Financial Services Committee...
Cross-posted on techPresident Way on back in 2007, we used to talk about how the internet fit into a presidential debate, that hallowed (and effective) tradition of the televison era. We even had two YouTube debates — remember them? Talking...
Hey John, how’s things? Crazy year, eh? Sorry about last week — you must have been dying inside as the press fawned all over that pipsqueak Barack Obama on his overseas jaunt. Reporters are YOUR base, after all, and what’s worse is...
Something jumped out at me during today’s Vocus seminar on P.R. and New Media — journalists and bloggers often see each other as rivals, but they’re united in at least one very important way: both are desperately looking to fill...
Ever wonder why Republicans are so good at staying on message? At Netroots Nation, the DNC’s training director Parag V. Mehta explained one reason — when he was staying with a Republican friend once, he happened to see an email sent to...