The postmortems blaming Mitt Romneyās election loss, at least in part, on his campaignās digital incompetence began before the candidate had even ...
Recent polls from Gallup and Pew have been pretty hard on President Obama. So given a recent blast of support from the tech community, perhaps the adm...
Joking that "one of my responsibilities as commander-in-chief is to keep an eye on robots," President Obama on Friday announced a new public-private s...
WASHINGTON -- Turns out President Barack Obama would like a phone upgrade.
The president, in an unscripted moment with donors in Chicago, was talking...
Continuing his efforts to chart new territory with respect to the intersection of politics and technology, President Obama is set to take what appears...
Older people, who should be his natural constituency, are not as enamored with Obama as many younger voters. One reason they are ignored; most of the elderly don't use the internet.
Not only will the new Congress help determine the fate of Barack Obama's remaining agenda, but the state legislators who take their seats in 2011 will redraw districts across the country.
Obama's public image will shape the political environment in 2010, of course, but plenty of politicians and political professionals on all sides will also look to his ground-breaking online campaign as an inspiration.
Once a campaign has the basic technology in place, it can begin to take full advantage of the internet's ability to deliver donors, volunteers and voters.
The reality is that Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up, and interactive needs to play a bigger role than it did in 2008 or 2009.
Political professionals trained in the broadcast era often have trouble adapting to the back-and-forth nature of online media, but the rewards for embracing it can be tremendous.
The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in...
President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra, Virginia's former technology secretary, as the nation's first chief technology officer and charged him with p...
Normally, the campaigning tools and functions that are used to win an election are put aside while the country is being run. But Obama and his team have turned that on its head.
This is the first administration to fuse iterative, real-time lifestyle coverage with the star power of a true celebrity politician. So far, it is working.
President Obama has announced the long awaited choice for his Chief Technology Officer -- Aneesh Chopra. Says Tim O'Reilly "Aneesh Chopra is a rock s...
The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern history is finding it difficult to adapt that model to government....
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past....
Thanks to digital organizing, Obama now has a secular congregation as big as America. That congregation elected him. Now that same congregation is going to practice the values that he has preached.
Instead of pre-packaged messages broadcast overseas, building the capacity of local media and investigative reporters promotes transparency and creates a culture of democratic activism.
Obama has bravely stepped into an Internet void left by his predecessor. Over the past eight years, the U.S. has fallen from fourth to 15th in the world in terms of high-speed Internet adoption.
President-elect Obama's mobilizing the millions of young people who supported his presidential campaign to help him as he prepares to govern a troubled country.
During my short stint as head of digital communications for the Prime Minister, there wasn't a lack of will to try new ways of directly interacting with the citizens of the UK, but it didn't necessarily lead to a higher quality of debate or better outcomes.
I am nowhere near as important or on the same need-to-be-connected level as our soon-to-president, but you'd have to pry those communication tools out of my cold, dead hands.