This is part four of a series of pieces I am writing about the Politics Online Conference sponsored by the Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet which I attended in Washington last Friday. It covers the second breakout sessions. The first track of the second set of breakout sessions seemed like a curious mixed [...]

by Dana Blankenhorn I am not a political pro. I am not a tactician. If anything, I’m a theoretician. And the theory I’ve been working for many years is “connection.” (For more on the theory’s application to current politics, see this —

This is part three of a series of pieces I am writing about the Politics Online Conference sponsored by the Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet which I attended in Washington last Friday. It covers the first breakout sessions. The first breakout session that I attended was entitled “Internet Based Campaign Management: Learn from [...]

This is the second entry in a series of pieces I am writing about the Politics Online Conference sponsored by the Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet which I attended in Washington last Friday. This section comments on a few of the speakers at the opening plenary. Ed Keller, CEO of RoperASW spoke about [...]

Friday, I attended the Politics Online Conference sponsored by the Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet This is the first of several pieces I intend to write about my experiences there. The Opening Plenary was entitled “The Conversation is Changing” Phil Noble, President of PolticsOnline was the moderator. In his opening comments, he noted [...]

Note: I started this a few days ago, but have been interrupted so often, that I now find this coming out the day before Gov. Dean’s announcement of his new organization. I will be off at a conference, so I may not have a chance to respond for a couple days. Recently, I’ve been in [...]

We have spent a lot of time talking here about politics becoming more interactive. People have always talked politics around the water cooler, but political activity has continued to decline in our country. One of the exciting developments of the Dean campaign has been to get people talking about politics more. Instead of just watching [...]

How often have you heard or used that phrase? In a fight with a spouse? In a fight with a parent or child? How does it apply to Greater Democracy? Jock Gill often talks about ‘Post Broadcast’ politics. Over the past couple decades, people’s involvement with politics have been driven, in many ways, by the [...]