As you might could tell from the promo graphics popping up all over the site, the just-concluded How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 series is now a single publication ready for (free) download. With five chapters covering the...
Part Four of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 What Dean and Kerry suggested in 2004, Barack Obama proved in 2008: an army of motivated online donor/volunteers can be a truly decisive force in politics. And with software designed to...
Here at e.politics, we’re happy to read things so you don’t have to — though in this case you should, because David Plouffe’s The Audacity to Win is well written and one hell of a glimpse into the strategy, tactics and...
A follow-on to Thursday’s Ten Rules for Blogger Outreach and Friday’s blogger relations training. Links (in all cases, YMMV) Wikio’s List of Top Political Blogs The world’s 50 most powerful blogs BlogAds (Sells ads on blogs...
Because I’m doing a blogger relations training on Friday, and because everyone loves a good Ten Rules piece, let’s do… Ten Rules for Blogger Outreach 1. Know Your Targets How do you know whom to pitch if you’re not following...
Part Three of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Once a campaign has the basic technology in place, it can begin to take full advantage of the internet’s ability to deliver donors, volunteers and voters. Much of a...
Download Version 1.2 (Released February 24, 2010) as PDF >> Browse the series by chapter: Introduction: How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Chapter Two: Tools, Time and Resources Chapter Three: Online Outreach Chapter Four: Online...
Part Two of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Using the internet for politics may seem new, but most online campaigning at some level just reincarnates classic political acts in digital form. For instance, you can think of a website...
The 30 House Dems at the Top of the GOP’s Target List, plus Redrawing The Lines: Growing National Focus on Redistricting. Trendsmap: Twitter Trends + Google Maps = Awesome. The Invention of Net Neutrality. How the issue grew online. How a...
After Labor Day, catching up with the advocacy blogs, and more. Presidential (campaign) Expenditures — note how little goes to online media. How to fake a grassroots uprising. C.f. How To Identify Astroturfers And Front Groups, via Craig...