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Thank You….
On November 3, 2010, the day after election day, I received an email from Doug Gansler with “Thank you” in the subject line. Doug Gansler is the Maryland Attorney General. I got excited because I’d never received an email from Doug Gansler or his campaign before. After reading the...
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Politechal advice
As I mentioned in my last few posts, I recently wrapped up working on a statewide election in Maryland. I’ve since stepped away as New Media Director for the Maryland Democratic Party in order to gain a different perspective on how best to use the interwebs in political campaigns....
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NGP & VAN Merge: Field, Finance and Comm need to merge too (Part 2)
In Part 1 I took a look at some of the technical implications of a VAN/NGP merger. This post is about a merger of different kind; the staff merger. Pretty soon the 2012 campaign teams will start to form and one of the first things that each department will do...
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NGP & VAN to Merge: Yay? (Part 1)
Last week, NGP and VAN announced in an email (using NGP’s email blast wizard) that the two database software companies would be merging at the end of the year. Democratic tech and data geeks across the country rejoiced as...
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