Category Archives: eCampaigning

After going through my candiate emails (and trust me, there are a lot of them), I began to evaluate the rationale of the content (similar to what I did for the English eCampaigning in 2005). In going through the emails, I began to notice a trend that should be noted such that the other candidates are better equipped for the upcoming online battle ahead. Continue reading →

One thing I noticed is that all (of the Democrats) are beginning to follow the basic premise of emails gained from the Dean campaign. Most are beginning to use the basic format of links in the body and such. But, what seems to be missing from some is an engaging narrative that solves the problems that recruits, retains and involves the supporters. Continue reading →

Following Jock Gill’s post at Greater Democracy, the answer is not just a paradigm shift, but a combination of the two – which allows for campaigns to coordinate the message with the distributed supporter infrastructure to improve efficiencies and results. Continue reading →

Listening in on the SXSW conference with Henry Copeland from blogAds moderating. At the conference, Marcos (from DailyKos), Michael (from redstate.org) and Ruby (from NetCentricCampaigns) are discussing the impact of blogs in the coming elections. Continue reading →

Spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the IPDI conference catching up with various friends and vendors. Excellent panel on mobile solutions (see Mozes and POLItxt) and a discussion on VoIP and softPBXes (think Apache for the phone services) and how it will revolutionize the political industry. Continue reading →