Five Talents Campaign Managers Should Look For in a New Media Director

As the fall elections draw near, many campaigns are staffing up.  By virtue of being on many online politics-related listservs, I’ve seen a number of postings for new media directors on campaigns. However, the postings portrait the new media director position as nothing more than glorified content intern and highlight the fact campaigns are not [...]

10 Things Everyone Needs to Have on Their Website (and Where Everything Should Go)

Yesterday, I had the priviledge to speak on a bi-partisan panel at the Politics Online Conference with Katie Harbath (NRSC), Michael Turk (CRAFT Media) and Nicole Aro (DNC) on a Panel put together and moderated by Alex Kellner (Blue State Digital). During our presentation, we tried to 10 things that we think every advocacy/campaign website [...]

My picks for Politics Online Conference #POLC2010

The politics online conference kicks off tomorrow.  I will be missing Monday (to cheer for my girlfriend running the Boston Marathon — I’m very proud of her) but speaking on Tuesday.  As always, I like to list the sessions that I think would be helpful to the readers of this blog. Monday 10:30 AM – [...]

Worst campaign websites of 2010

In the last 10 years, the price tag for a decent website has drastically dropped.  Moreover, the internet has increasingly been touted as the great leveler between campaigns flush with cash and those running on fumes.  Countless applications have been created to simplify website publishing while maintaining elegant look and feel. Despite these facts, some [...]

Five ways to find local bloggers

As Tip O’Neill once stated, “all politics is local.” But if we’ve learned anything since the 2004 presidential election,  it is that thanks to the advent of the internet, all politics is viral.  Given these two facts, it’s understandable how blogs with a local-focus have become a major player in local politics. Increasingly candidates and [...]