Big news broke in the advocacy space last night: Change.org will now begin accepting paid petitions from conservative groups, including Republican political campaigns and anti-abortion groups. In response, progressive activists, who’ve...
Update: Campaigns & Elections has April’s email to Salsa staff. Heartbreaking. Update II: Just days after the big news from Salsa, it became public knowledge that Change.org was shedding its progressive/lefty orientation. Read more. News...
Hmmm, let’s see what Catalist, Aristotle, NGPVAN et al have to say about this latest move from NationBuilder: Today we are introducing the NationBuilder Election Center – a free nationwide voter file that also includes an API designed for...
Guest article! Below is the first section of the introduction to Daniel Kreiss’s new book, “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama,” available in the Amazon store. We’ll...
If you have some connection to the online organizing tool NationBuilder, you probably got the email printed below, which alleges “harassment” of the company’s political customers by rival NGP VAN. NGP’s response to the...
Update: a good discussion about this article has been taking place on Facebook. Guest article! A little discussion blew up over on the Progressive Exchange listserv this week, with some folks less-than-pleased that NationBuilder‘s being used...
Some of us in the online politics space have wondered what Obama 2012 would roll out to replace 2008’s MyBarackObama.com, and now we know: the Wall Street Journal has the scoop on the campaign’s new “Dashboard” grassroots...
This is a QR code on a banana: Let me repeat: a QR code on a banana. I’m sorry, but digital marketing has now officially Gone Too Far — it risks the wrath of the gods. You Have Been Warned. (Credit for this well-composed photo: my NWLC...
This just in: The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) and NGP VAN have partnered to bring state legislative candidates across the country DLCC Go, a unique suite of integrated and affordable new media, fundraising, and field campaign...
New Version! Available now on Amazon.com and as a PDF This article is from an earlier ebook and is now out of date! Please check out the NEW ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014.” Using the internet for politics may seem...