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 →

One of the questions I get asked freqently is “what do you do for campaigns?” The concept of using the Internet for campaigns has had the same hype that the Internet has back in the late 90′s (“it’ll change the … Continue reading →

Spending today in Maine at popTech (Thanks to Te Smith for her help) and spent the days listening to how technology and visionaries are working to “make a difference”. And one of the conference speakers, Professor Yochai Benkler (see Dina’s … Continue reading →

Recently, I was speaking with a campaign manager of an “Internet savvy” campaign – they had a strong web presence, a campaign blog, an online fundraising campaign – and a network of web savvy volunteers working the campaign. The CM … Continue reading →

IMHO, it is all about generating relationships – reciprocal relationships that drive the energy of the campaign forward. Like the initial seed crystal in making silicon wafers (or the snowball that becomes the snowman), it is about building the relationship with the mavens that will grow into defining the candidate in the long run. By being the candidate that people take as their own and compare all others to. How can a candidate make the success happen in the long run – especially when most other people are not looking – and will only focus when the time is right – and they do what comes naturally to them: ask the mavens. Continue reading →