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

Bill Richardson has relaunched his website, coinciding with his announcement that he is officially running for the Democratic nomination for President. On the heels of his highly successful Job Interview web commercial, ... Read More

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

* Left and right are buzzing about Republican candidate Ron Paul's surprising showings online. He's been the most popular candidate on MySpace since before anyone was paying attention to the friends-chase there, a ... Read More

I have for many years argued that campaign websites should also be used to mobilize grassroots action on legislative issues. While I generally talk about using these websites in this manner between elections, I am, ... Read More

It's late on a Saturday and I don't have a lot of time to get into details, but for those people who have been following the Obama MySpace Mess, a quick heads-up is in order. Joe Anthony, the volunteer who started ... Read More

The dust is starting to settle on Obama's MySpace Mess. For those people who imagined that Joe Anthony might turn to the courts and sue the Obama campaign for taking control of a community space that he spent ... Read More

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

One of the underlying issues raised by Obama's MySpace Mess is just what it takes to build a mega-group on a big social networking site, and how to value that work. I want to get into that here. Read More

This issue [Obama's MySpace Brouhaha] reminds me of questions that we had to deal with all the time on the Dean campaign. We called people like Joe Anthony "centers of gravity"-- people who had built up their own Dean ... Read More