As Colin noted last week, one of the biggest topics of discussion at December’s Rootscamp was how to move the state of the art forward with respect to Digital Organizing. In the Democratic political space, we suffer what can only be described...
Remember that we talked last week about the Koch brothers creation of an alternate political campaign structure independent of the Republican Party? Now i360, the data arm of that operation, is pulling staff from RNC itself: Chuck DeFeo, the RNC...
Remember that time we wondered why there wasn’t a Right-wing petition site, an equivalent of Care2 or Change.org but for causes dear to the conservative heart? Now there IS one: The digital media firm Intermarkets, Inc., today announced the...
Is it time for the SOTU response to go? Luis Hestres argues, yes. C.f. yesterday’s piece about a data-visualization app showing how the Twitterati reacted to this year’s speech. Iowa senator Joni Ernst’s response to President...
Still got #SOTU fever? Twitter’s got you covered, with a cool interative visualization of the Twitter discussion around the President’s State of the Union speech to Congress and the nation last night. You can get the flavor in the image...
Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Elections magazine Technology Bytes column is out, and you don’t want to miss it. The current edition leads off with a discussion of the voter-data infrastructure being created by the Koch brothers’...
Bush Announces Formation of PAC, via cell phone, video and Instagram. C.f. Leader of the PAC: Jeb Bush moves a step closer to announcing his 2016 presidential bid—and keeping his promise of running a very different campaign. But apparently, Jeb...
As the presidential options for our Republican readers expand by the day (Romneys and Bushes and Pauls, oh my), let’s talk staffing. Specifically, digital staffing: every serious presidential campaign will need at least a digital director, and...
Yesterday’s hacking of a U.S. military Twitter feed and YouTube page may not be militarily significant in any material way, but it IS a classic act of war…of the psychological variety. The hackers (presumably associated with the...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: a lot of Pages recycling good content from other groups. One for all, and all...