Dr. DigiPol

Perhaps the biggest fear organizations face when considering creating a blog, discussion forum, or venturing into the world of online social networks is the “threat” of negative comments from the external community. This sense of fear is born of a long–held belief among traditional issue managers that you never repeat or provide a platform […]

GasBuddy.com let’s you pop in your ZIP code and find the cheapest gass within a few miles of your home. And you are going to need it, as since the election is over gas prices are on the rise. They went up 4 cents today, alone, and 7 cents since Tuesday.
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The dust has settled, the results are in, the losers have conceded, and the winners have extended a hand to the other side to govern for the better of the nation and not for the better of a political party. And so, it is time to add my two-cents to Colin Delany’s analysis of […]

Ever wonder why an advocacy group should have a blog? Sure, promoting issues is a great reason, but here is another: write a blog to engage your supporters in your efforts to redesign your website.
And that is exactly what American Rivers is doing. Its new Designing Inward Out blog keeps its supporters posted […]

Check out the NYT interactive map of the election results (the pre-election map is no longer available).

If you haven’t seen it already, I have been compiling an Internet Politics Library on the Internet Advocacy Center website. It is a work in progress featuring links to many of the leading research organizations in the field of internet politics and has a growing list of topic areas with links to research papers, […]

With the proliferation of paid bloggers on the campaign trail (NATIONAL JOURNAL 10/31/2006)), it is important for readers to know thy blogger. To this end, let me suggest a non-mutually exclusive blog typology:

If you haven’t read about my hometown state breaking new ground in digital political strategy, check out this post by Justin Oberman of Personal Democracy Forum and MobileActive.org Maine Gubernatorial Race Goes Mobile. Seems the Green Party candidate for Governor is calling on debate viewers to text who they thought won the debate to […]