http://bellamy115.com Managing Online Communications for Political Campaigns Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We'll be using CSS sprites for menus on our websites, so I thought I'd add a couple links in an article here for you. This is an excellent tutorial from Chris Coyier on them:  http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/ And he also has a video (although it's a bit longer and doesn't do exactly what we'll ... http://bellamy115.com/2011/03/css-sprites/ Great video on the power of hypertext, linking, and the web. http://bellamy115.com/2011/01/web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/ This is a great article on Page Description Diagrams:  http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/where_the_wireframes_are_special_deliverable_3 http://bellamy115.com/2011/01/where-the-wireframes-are/ [Geek alert] The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is ready for collision!  This morning CERN announced that the LHC is ready to start creating black holes today.  :)  You can watch the live web cast here:  http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/ Here is a report from CNN on the LHC: (CNN) -- Deep underground on the ... http://bellamy115.com/2010/03/ready-for-collision/   Here is a good article from Slate on the efficacy of robo-calls vs. texts.  We'll be discussing these in class on Tuesday as part of the web sphere's GOTV options. Compared with TV advertising, door-to-door canvassing, and mega-rallies, automated phone calls are seductive because they harness modern telecommunications technology in ... http://bellamy115.com/2010/03/robo-calls-vs-texts/ Thanks to Pablo for this - the agenda for POLC 2010 has been announced:  http://polc2010.com/agenda From the website: The Politics Online Conference is more than a decade old. Here are some highlights from 2009. _________________________ The Politics Online Conference 2009 “Politics Comes of Age on the Internet” was hosted April 20-21, 2009 in the ... http://bellamy115.com/2010/02/polc-2010/ Great group of hacking videos with implications for political candidate sites: http://bellamy115.com/2010/02/hacking-videos/ One of our very own, Pablo Pantoja, appears on this video to explain Web 2.0 and how DEM is using these technologies. http://bellamy115.com/2010/02/pablo-pantoja-on-web-20/ Thanks to Putting Politics on the MAAPP and Scion Democrat for this. The Department of State has its own blog, Dipnote. From a recent post, they wrote to the blog readers: You have let us into your lives, as we sought to let you into our lives at the State Department. Together we ... http://bellamy115.com/2009/05/department-of-state-blog/ Here is a video on BarackObama.com's mobilizing tools: http://bellamy115.com/2009/03/mybo/