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Bill White Campaigners Social Media Training View more presentations from Ed Schipul. I feel so honored to be a part of a special Social Media training for Mayor Bill White's Senate campaign volunteers today at the Houston Technology Center (MAJOR hat tip to Monica, Laura and Andrea White). You can link to Ed and I's [...]

The 2008 election was a powerful experience, so what better way to start a new presidency, live blogging, with mimsoas and with some of my favorite gals: Karen Walrond of Chookooloonks and LensHouston Katherine Center Laura Mayes of Blog con Queso and Kirtsy Jenny of Good Mom/Bad Mom and The Bloggess Jodi Bash of The [...]

Online TV Shows by Ustream Tired of getting your political signs / lawn flamingos / mail box stolen?  One Portland family is using online video geekery to take matters into their own hands after having their Obama campaign signs stolen from their front yard.    They’ve set up a UStream video to nab the sign [...]

Continuing on the power of Qik motif (see Congressman Culberson’s live video activity here), Noel Hidalgo (aka:  @noneck) has been off changing the world again, this time stirring up trouble (in all the best ways) in China during the Olympics. He and John Hocevar (founder of Students for a Free Tibet) were interviewed by Amy [...]

Probably the coolest thing ever.  Ever. John Culberson is dedicated to ‘shining sunlight in all dark corners of Congress’ through the use of Social Media.  A longtime Schipul client, we are very, very excited to be working with him in a new capacity as he navigates the waters of the Social Web. Regardless of your [...]

I got a great email from Blogher Jory today announcing their co-sponsorship of 10Questions: … a new, non-partisan “People powered presidential forum” hosted by TechPresident.com, in cooperation with the New York Times and MSNBC.com and many of your favorite websites and blogs. Here’s how it works:  you post a short video asking candidates a question, [...]

Here’s an interesting piece on Republican Fred Thompson’s active Blogging life.  Love, love, LOVE to see a politician embrace and enjoy Social Media so much! While the Internet and blogs are a basic cornerstone of any modern campaign communications strategy, Thompson has been notably enthusiastic about expressing his thoughts online. "The guy actually likes blogging. [...]

Like a bajillion other people (‘bajillion = a highly technical count of users, incidentally), I use YouTube for brilliant video finds like GalagaGal’s ‘Waiting for a bus’ and Mr. Show videos.  But lately YouTube has been making me look/feel so much smarter by smashing really great political content into my ordinarily chuckle-induced online video world.  [...]

Yet another reason it would be cool to work for Google – important people swing by your office to chat! 2 presidential candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain, have stopped by the Big G’s complex to speak with Google CEO Eric Schmidt on their campaign, technology prowess and other friendly chitchat I-want-to-takeover-the-world-and-know-I-need-to-appeal-to-YouTube-and-Google-audience topics. [...]