A call for reasonable expectations on the “Impending Explosion of State-Level Online Politics”

In his most recent blog post, Colin Delany talks about the impending explosion of state-level online politics.   He mentions the rising cost of (local) campaigns and the Obama’s success as the reasons for the surge interest at the state level.   Clearly, I agree with Colin that there is  growth to come in the online politics [...]

What do you mean my campaign needs to be integrated?

When Isaac wrote up his round-up from his session at the 2009 Online politics conference, he mentioned that speakers on the panel emphasized integration.  That’s point lead one of the readers of this blog to ask the following question: This might be an ignorant question re: point 1, but can you elaborate a bit more [...]

Welcome to LocalPoliTechs.Com

What is Local Politechs? I envision LocalPoliTechs.com as being a blog dedicated to the use of technology in campaigns at the local and state level on both side of the aisle. What do you mean by technology? By technology, I  mean the use of social media, but also volunteer management systems, email vendors, website hosting, [...]