Also published on techPresident and K Street Cafe Another Twitter-inspired idea from Thursday’s CAP/Internet Advocacy Roundtable discussion: when Alan Rosenblatt talked about Tweeting to “influence the influentials,” he...
The folks over at the Hatcher Group have taken on an interesting project: they’ve surveyed 30 advocacy groups working on state-level issues to find out how they’re using the ‘net in their work. They started with an extensive...
Part One of a series Barack Obama won’t be on the ballot in November of 2010, but thousands of other candidates will — and he’ll be very much on their minds. His public image will shape the American political environment, of...
If you couldn’t make it to our panel at Netroots Nation (i.e., you weren’t there/awake/sober yet when we went on at 10:30 AM on the first day), fret no more! Conference panels were recorded, and the video from our session (“Scaling...
More details now on our Netroots Nation panel, which will focus on using what we’ve all learned from the Obama campaign, and not just the part about raising money online. The panel now includes, besides me: Judith Freeman — with the New...
Hi y’all, poor Allyson Kapin lost her mind long enough to ask me to write a guest piece over on Frogloop, and it’s live at last — now unkillable by man or beast. The idea behind the article: that in an economic downturn, it may be...
Alan Rosenblatt has unearthed a most fascinating artifact: a guide to online activism produced by a white supremicist in the days before the World Wide Web was all that wide. Alan ran across it in the late 1990s and recently found it again, and...
The Conclusion of a six-part series As the presidential race heated up, the internet grew from being the medium of a core group of political junkies to a gateway for millions of ordinary Americans to participate in the political process, donating...
It’s Christmas in June! One of those common requests that floats around the email lists is, “does anybody have a copy of a sample _______ that I can take a look at?” Maybe it’s a contract, maybe it’s specification or a...
Cross-posted on techPresident What matters at the polls? The candidate, the message, and the moment: everything else just sets the stage. You can have every endorsement in the state, tons of money in the bank, a flashy online volunteer-mobilization...