Why is Team Obama Opting Out of Twitter?

Last week the Politico released a controversial list of the most influential Twitter users in the Washington, DC area.  The article spread around the Internet, as is typical of these types of articles, with the the LA Times and David Almacy responding with their own lists.  All three lists are interesting,...

RNC Chair’s Race Made For Twitter

Today, the Republican National Committee is electing a new Chair at their winter meetings.  The Chair is elected through a series of secret ballots, the results of which are announced to the folks attending the meetings. This kind of event is made for Twitter, as tons of people in the room as posting results in real time. ...

Open for Questions is No Digg

 Change.gov launched a Digg-inspired feature yesterday that allows users to submit questions to the Obama transition teams and vote questions submitted by other visitors up or down.  Open for Questions has enjoyed a good deal of activity so far (410,000 votes on over 5,000 questions) even though it is not at all clear what the transition team intends to do with the data it collects. ...

The Obama Campaign’s Levels of Engagement

Patrick Ruffini has a good post up on Next Right about the Obama campaign’s online engagement strategy (use of email, social networks, etc. to get volunteers to support the campaign).  In the article, he points to a quote from Chip Saltsman, who is running for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee,...

Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner Wants to Tweet

This afternoon I attended the Conservative Bloggers Briefing during which The Heritage Foundation's President Ed Feulner discussed the current state of conservatism. 

I expected to hear that Feulner is optimistic, but I was pleasantly surprised to listen to him extol the importance of new and social media.  He spoke about how often he hears congressmen and women mention that they were thrilled to receive a flood of e-mails urging them to vote one way or another on a piece of legislation and ignore the potential to use those e-mail addresses to promote action and improve constituent relationships. ...