Politechal advice

As I mentioned in my last few posts, I recently wrapped up working on a statewide election in Maryland. I’ve since stepped away as New Media Director for the Maryland Democratic Party in order to gain a different perspective on how best to use the interwebs in political campaigns. I also plan on dedicating a bit more time to this blog.

NGP & VAN Merge: Field, Finance and Comm need to merge too (Part 2)

In Part 1 I took a look at some of the technical implications of a VAN/NGP merger. This post is about a merger of different kind; the staff merger.

Integrated GOTV: Getting Out the Vote Online

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to be a presenter for NOI’s New campus GOTV series. My presentation centered around integrating in a campaign’s GOTV efforts.   Conscious integration of your online presence can boost your efficacy and reach, and help your campaign expand capacity in many ways. In the slides, I attempt share best practices of [...]

Google debuts campaign toolkit for 2010 cycle

Gooogle has launched toolkit that packages its exisiting tools for political campaigns in the upcoming compaign cycle. From the company’s website: Google products and YouTube allow you to deliver your message directly to voters, and can keep your staff and volunteers connected throughout the campaign. In the 2008 presidential election, 68% of registered U.S. voters [...]

In case you missed it: My first guest post On epolitics.com

I spent a week in Massachusetts helping the Coakley campaign.  After the loss, a slew of blog posts and news articles were written analyzing the online component of the race.  However, I felt that they all lacked something – an insider’s perspective.  I sought to expand on the commentary already in the blogsphere about what [...]