Bidding for President: The Democrats

You know those text ads on the right hand side of Google search result pages?  I wonder who is trying to cash in the 2008 US Presidential race.  Back in February Michael Bassik over at techPresident did an investigation into which 2008 Presidential candidates had purchased text-ads.  I've decided to take a brief look at any site buying ads for searches for candidate names....

Obama’s MySpace Fiasco

Micah Sifry has a fantastic story up on the battle currently being waged over Barack Obama’s MySpace profile. In a nutshell, a few years ago an Obama fanatic reserved Obama’s name on MySpace and began building a network on Obama’s behalf. The campaign worked with the supporter for a while,...

Team Building Videos: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

When I was in traditional PR one of the activities I always thought was a waste of time and money was the creation of internal, morale boosting videos.  Basically, the idea is to make this “cool” video to get everyone fired up at some big event, nevermind the other 364 days in the year. ...

Capitol Hill’s Constituent E-mail Culture and Future

I was on Capitol Hill Monday morning attending the "Ready-Made Constituent Relationships: A Look at How Technology Empowers and Enables Effective Constituent Relationship Management" presentation hosted by George Washington University's Institute for Politics & The Internet (IPDI).

While the presentation covered a broad range of constituent services, the main focus was e-mail,...

Bobby Jindal for Governor Goes Live

Working with our partners at iWeb Strategies and episode49, we launched a new website for Bobby Jindal (R-LA) for Governor yesterday (blog here). Along with the website, the Jindal campaign also launched profiles on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. Brian Lyle has the details over on the iWeb Strategies blog....