Red tape is preventing some congressional offices from unlocking the power of email, according to a new report from the Congressional Management Foundation. Here it is in 2011, and yet the report, released today, finds ... Read More

Tennessee state legislators are reacting to Gov. Bill Haslam's recent decision to slash nine out of ten recipients of a daily early-morning news roundup by distributing the news themselves, the Associated Press reports. ... Read More

An unfortunate typo found its way into copies of the email just sent out by Mitt Romney's campaign letting it be known that, this Thursday, the former Massachusetts governor will formally announce his presidential ... Read More

The Obama '12 operation hit some portion of its email list with a fundraising ask that can probably fairly be called rather cheeky: for $15, according to one version of the email, you can get yourself a mug featuring ... Read More

The AP's Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo report: Holed up in his walled compound in northeast Pakistan with no phone or Internet capabilities, bin Laden would type a message on his computer without an Internet connection, ... Read More

It seems a bit curious that, as part of the evolution of our political transparency culture, its become generally unembarrassing for public officials to admit that they don't use email simply because they don't want ... Read More

Now in beta is MoveOn do-it-yourself online petition tool. Meet SignOn. It's being used in Maine to demand the creation of a recall process, for one thing, but according to the site's FAQ, the use of SignOn isn't limited ... Read More

The New Organizing Institute has just released a set of research results from years of experiments in optimizing email open rates: Over the last two years, we’ve partnered with a half-dozen progressive advocacy groups ... Read More

TPM's Josh Marshall tells the story of Bill Cronon, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin who, after writing about the labor battle in that state, finds his university emails being requested by the Wisconsin ... Read More

Politico's Byron Tau points us to Florida's recently elected governor Rick Scott explaining that he doesn't use email, as reported by the St. Petersburg Times. The set up: Scott is talking to a gathering of a couple ... Read More