By Bruce Dietzen Volunteers are the lifeblood of your campaign. Unfortunately, there’s no magic formula for tripling the number of supporters willing to knock on doors or make calls. I wish there were. But there is an easy way to triple the number of people willing to spread the word about your campaign, using Facebook. [...]
Could easier access to potential voters’ personal data be of big benefit to candidates running political campaigns for office? That’s what a post on SFWeekly suggests, noting that the administrators of political Facebook fan pages will now have access to lots of juicy voter information that could help a candidate mine for supporters, volunteers and [...]
TechCrunch has a post today about a new online group fundraising website, called GoFundMe, that might be a great option for political campaign candidates looking to take donations on their site and track contributions with an interesting social media layout. We’ve looked at raising political campaign money online with PayPal, but GoFundMe gives candidates a [...]
If you get a chance, hop over to the widely-read blog Quick Online Tips and read a guest article that my wife Jessica Van Treuren and I wrote about using blogs to become an expert in any field. While not directly applicable to running a political campaign or winning a local election, the article does [...]
I’m an elected city councilman in Amherst, Ohio, and I received a great email from a college student today containing questions about the roll I play in local government. The student’s government class is doing a project on local elected officials, and he sent a very polite message asking me to take a moment to [...]
Wow, I’m really writing a lot of posts about Facebook lately . . . but here’s another quick one. If you visit the Killer Campaigning site, you’ll notice that we have added the new Facebook “like” button to the top of each one of our posts. If you ‘re logged into your Facebook account, this [...]
If you’re a political candidate who is running for office in a local election, then you won’t want to miss a great article published on Inside Facebook today about how mayoral candidates are using Facebook to augment their campaigning efforts. Facebook is quickly becoming an important part of political campaigns around the world, and the [...]