My first post for CQRollCall’s new Connectivity blog is up, so please take a look! Editor Chris Nehls asked five questions about Epolitics.com, the communications environment we all work and how it’s changing, social media advocacy and...
Check out my cool new toy! The time was early 2010: the iPad had just debuted, Glee was soon to hit TV screens for the first time, and the universe reeled from the knowledge that Michael Jackson was still dead. In the political world, Scott Brown...
The big question for American politics in 2014: will this year’s electorate look more like 2012 or 2010? If the former, Democrats have a shot at holding on to the Senate and might just outperform expectations in House races, too. If it’s...
The past month’s parade of conferences was bad for the Epolitics.com publishing schedule but great for thinking — a time to step back for a minute and meditate about the changes we’re going through and where we are in the long...
What are the big developments to watch in online advocacy? That question is very much on my mind: Monday I’ll have the privilege of leading a digital strategy training for public affairs professionals, and I’ve been pulling slides...
My friend Lucian Despoiu is a very smart guy: he’s an entrepreneur and a digital political consultant, and he’s worked on campaigns in more countries than I’ve even visited. He gave the presentation below at a recent TEDx event in...
President Obama is none too pleased with HealthCare.gov, we learned today: “There’s no sugarcoating it: The Web site is too slow; people have been getting stuck in the application process,” Obama said. “And I think it is fair...
The health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act came online Tuesday, and judging by most accounts, their main problem was a good one: popularity. Some of the exchange sites saw so much traffic from people interested in signing up...
Molly Knight Raskin has a completely unexpected 9/11 story in Slate today, about the man who was quite likely the first victim of that morning (a former member of an Israeli counter-terrorism team who happened to be on board the flight that would...
One last long weekend before the September frenzy descends upon DC…time to read a book. I just finished Nicco Mele’s The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath and I recommend you check it out as well — it’s...