Riche Zamor is an old friend and someone always on the move — and today he’s here to talk about a new project that sounds like something plenty of you might be interested in helping out with: Social Media is Bullshit It’s a growing...
DC’s political class may be preoccupied with Boehner’s “Plan B” disaster, the fiscal cliff and the (now-overdue) Mayan Apocalypse, but some folks are focused on a longer game. Among them Patrick Ruffini and his crew at...
Update: Now with working links to the case studies…d’oh! Greetings from Texas! We’ve temporarily abandoned the e.politics bunker in favor of the distant hinterlands — though no baby armadillos so far this time, alas. But what...
One noteworthy point from a RootsCamp 2012 session on the Obama campaign’s digital marketing: sometimes a less-targeted approach to recruitment worked better than tight targeting. This may come as a surpise to some, since, impressed the...
[Note: speaking Obama’s email list, there’s current chatter about whether — and how — he should use it upcoming legislative battles. More on that here soon.] Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek yesterday, Joshua Green has a...
Web tech site Nettuts+ has a must-read (for online politics and technology nerds) interview with Daniel Ryan, OFA’s Director of Frontend Development. The article covers a lot of ground in great detail, looking both at the technology the...
What does a modern political field operation look like? I argued the other day that four million donors, most of whom have given small amounts apiece, built the foundation for a powerful ground game that the campaign hopes will push Obama over the...
Lookie here! It’s a free* gift from our friends at Salsa: The Essential Guide to End-of-Year Fundraising New Book from Wiley Publishing, made available by Salsa The Essential Guide to End of Year Fundraising is now available as a free download...
Daniel Kreiss, a professor in the school of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC, just put out a new book that examines the adoption of digital technologies by the political Left in the U.S.: My new book, Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of...
This is the second of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece appeared earlier in the C&E...