Working on a presentation for tomorrow’s Vocus user conference, I’m stuck by how often I keep coming back to a simple model for online organizing: the tripod. The basic idea (which I stole from Josh McConaha a while back) is that most...
Cross-posted on techPresident Update: Check out Henri Makembe’s related piece for a different angle on the topic. Fascinating experience a few days ago — I got to do a presentation/discussion about online fundraising with a group of...
You’d think I’d have learned my lesson after the last couple of Twitter frenzies, but what the heck — let’s dive right back into those shark-infested intellectual waters. So here’s the scoop: the opinion editors at the...
Part Five of a six-part series Obama’s platform may have envisioned a grand reform of the political system, but the primary change he brought to political fundraising was to do more of it than anyone in history: 3 million donors made a total...
Crazy week! Designs due Monday, a chunk of another client site due Tuesday, a webinar yesterday and a conference presentation today, plus Mom’s coming to town tomorrow for the weekend — time to clean the ol’ bunker, also to put...
Well, look what happens when e.politics goes off the grid for a couple of days: the kids get all crazy over their Twitter. Jon Pincus started the conversation yesterday with a reply to the Twitter-is-not-a-strategy e.politics piece from last week:...
Cross-posted on techPresident A classic observation from the early days of online marketing: a website is NOT a strategy. I.e., when you ask the client what they’re trying to do online, and they reply that they have a website — which is...
Guest article! This one comes from an e.politics reader with years of service in the online political world but who prefers to remain anonymous to preserve feelings — and professional relationships. His anecdote contains too much wisdom to...
At a Progressive Communicators of DC lunch today, Mike McCurry made a lot of good points about modern political communications — between the Monica Lewinsky jokes clearly intended to ease what sounded like residual pain from his years as Bill...
When you’re the director of social media for General Motors, you have a political job whether you expect it or not. At an SXSW panel on the “Digital Tsunami” that brews up around breaking news events, GM’s Christopher Barger...