Daily Digest: 5/31/07
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, May 31 2007
The Web on the Candidates John Edwards stopped by the YouTube studio yesterday to record an interview with politics editor Steve Grove. It started as a gregarious interview, with Grove jokingly asking if Edwards spent ... Read More
Edwards and the Spectrum as a Public Good
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, May 30 2007
Now that the FCC has announced it will be auctioning off the 700 megahertz part of the wireless spectrum -- it will go unused once broadcast TV stations make a complete switch to digital in 2009 -- its use has become a ... Read More
Daily Digest: 5/30/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, May 30 2007
The Web on the Candidates Our friends at Eventful were featured on CNN's The Situation Room yesterday, in a report about the most-demanded candidates in the country. As our charts show, Barack Obama (or, as the ... Read More
Daily Digest: 5/23/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, May 23 2007
The Web on the Candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama "have distinguished themselves in the presidential field by running campaigns that deliberately part with a longtime rule of election-year politics: Keep the ... Read More
Authenticity in Social Media
BY Fred Stutzman | Tuesday, May 22 2007
In Mike Turk and Zack Exley's session at PDF 2007, a topic that came up frequently was the creation of perception with social media tools. The discussion explored methods for humanizing the candidate; dropping in on the ... Read More
Listening to Voters Who Cannot Hear
BY Alan Rosenblatt | Thursday, May 17 2007
While all of the candidates are using the internet to talk to the voters, some are using it to listen to them. And others are changing the way they talk with voters because they listened to them. That is the ... Read More
Why Aren't the Presidential Campaigns Using Widgets?
BY Colin Delany | Wednesday, May 16 2007
The major presidential campaigns have put tons of effort into creating websites, building their own social networks, creating online videos and reaching out to voters through Facebook and MySpace, but they're so far ... Read More
Daily Digest: 5/14/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, May 14 2007
The Web on the Candidates Does the performance of a candidate's web page help determine their online effectiveness and the amount of online donations they bring in? Katherine Noyes at TechNewsWorld reports that 62% of ... Read More
Edwards: End the War in 150 Characters or Less
BY Michael Whitney | Friday, May 11 2007
John Edwards is taking a big first step for mobile advocacy in '08. In a fundraising email yesterday, Edwards asked supporters to contribute money for a full-page ad to run in The Washington Post that shows the 100,000 ... Read More
Daily Digest: 5/3/07
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, May 3 2007
The Web on the Candidates The Bivings Report's Steve Peterson has a good roundup of what sites are buying ads on Google for searches of candidate names. For example, when you do a search for "Joe Biden," what comes up? ... Read More