Mike Connery of The Opportunity Agenda writes in to talk about an excellent use of mapping and data by an advocacy campaign he’s involved in: It’s a Google Maps Mashup displaying hospital closures in NYC in 1985, 1995, and 2005 layered...
Brian Braiker in Newsweek is suggesting that 2007 may be the Year of the Widget, a time in which web users start to customize their online experience to an unprecedented extent. Some marketing folks, most notably Steve Rubel (who gets a nice shout...
Sarah DiJulio with M&R Strategic Services has some excellent tips for converting traditional offline members into online activists. Switching members from snailmail to email for many communications has the obvious advantage of lowering mailing...
Quick Hits goes local! Candidates go online for young voters. Staten Island Advance looks at candidate MySpace profiles in races in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Social networking, den of sin and lair of iniquity: the article notes that “a...
Hey kids! I’m off for a few days, heading to Kansas to see what’s wrong with the place (hint: it’ll involve a serious shortage of liquor once we’re through with the joint). Two of my best friends are getting married to each...
“Online Politics 101: The Tools and Tactics of Online Political Advocacy” gathers the e.politics how-to articles into one conveniently packaged (and free) publication. Each chapter contains a link to the live version on epolitics.com...
Now in the Amazon Store! Download for Kindle. “Online Politics 101: The Tools and Tactics of Online Political Advocacy” gathers the e.politics how-to articles into one conveniently packaged publication. Each chapter contains a link to...
A conversation yesterday on the Progressive Exchange email list was both a pleasure to read and the source of some expert advice on the best ways to boost a campaign or issue’s profile in the blogosphere. A list member got things started by...
According to the On The Download column at Hotline On Call, incumbent Texas Governor Rick Perry is buying full-length ad spots at the beginning of downloadable news video clips, normally more of a corporate ad strategy. Online news would seem to be...
Following up on last week’s manifesto about using databases for political microtargeting, Phil Lepanto from Connections Media has an exhaustive piece (his second on e.politics) about the mechanics of collecting and using data to identify...