Update: a comment from past Epolitics.com contributor Derek Pangallo on Facebook did remind me that people who do a lot of back-and-forth conversation on Twitter will have a different pattern than someone who just posts links to content. That will...
Steve Castleton made a great point in our “Getting Your Online Campaign off the Ground” session at the Art of Political Campaigning last week — think of visitors to your website as impulse buyers and design accordingly. Act like...
New guest author! Jesse Bacon works with our friend Laura Packard at PowerThru Consulting, and in the article below (first published on PowerThru’s blog), he wades into the Great Debate…about email acquisition channels. If you’re a...
The Usual Suspects moved quickly as news spread of Eric Cantor’s sudden fall in Tuesday’s primary election: my inbox filled fast with fundraising messages from the Democratic party committees, outside political funding groups, individual...
The internet is a risky place to communicate: no matter what issue you’re talking about, online media bring out the ugly. Not just in politics, too, since anyone “lucky” enough to land in the news gets skewered for how he or she...
Guest article! The latest from PowerThru’s Laura Packard, originally published on the PowerThru blog. Say it’s time for your organization to do a website redesign, or your campaign needs a new website for the campaign launch or post...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. A great way to see what advocacy content is working for a range of organizations and issues. Of note...
Be sure to check out this week’s episode of Digital Politics Radio, hosted by Karen Jagoda. Topics this time: Ben Tulchin, President, Tulchin Research, with insights about the California primary results and the impact of “top 2” on...
Earlier this week, we got to read Chris Casey’s look back at launching the first congressional website for Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1994. But what did this slice of the political web look like 20 years ago? Thanks to Chris’s collection of...
Guest article! Chris Casey writes on the 20th Anniversary of the first Congressional website, which he helped bring to life. This article first appeared on June 2, 2014 on Casey.com. UPDATE: check out screenshots from this and other early 90s Ted...