Welcome to the non-partisan Digital Politics Podcast with Karen Jagoda. Since 2007, this show has highlighted impact of new technologies on the campaign landscape, how expectations of voters are changing, role of online fundraising, digital and traditional means of persuasion and getting out the vote. In this time of the COVID-19 Pandemic, changes in the behavior of voters, restrictions on candidates and the new normal for retail politics are all under the microscope.
Popular topics on the show include best practices for political and advocacy campaigns, ground game strategies, cross-media advertising, social media trends and impact of mobile on engaging supporters.
This weekly podcast includes interviews with political consultants, media strategists, journalists, advocates, candidates, elected officials, campaign managers, and solution providers.
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Jul 8, 2021
Tara McGowan is the Founder and CEO of Courier Newsroom and shares lessons learned as CEO of ACRONYM and PACRONYM during the 2020 election cycle about low information and elusive swing voters.
We talk about:
- need to give people more opportunities for a balanced information diet providing content where they are...
Jun 2, 2021
Don Caldwell is Editor-in-Chief of Know Your Meme and an expert on the growth of memes, GIFs, viral videos, and other digital content that is widely shared and hits a responsive chord. Don talks about tracking Internet culture, the history of the word meme, the life cycle of memes, and how social media fuels the speed...
May 14, 2021
Deepak Puri, Co-Founder and CEO, The Democracy Labs shares insights about the use of memes, GIFs and stickers in a time when people have increasingly short attention spans and are bombarded by messages. There is no magic formula for what will go viral but experimentation is key as are optimizing the images to appear on...
Apr 23, 2020
Alex Niemczewski, CEO, BallotReady is an entrepreneur and activist who is interested in raising awareness about all candidates and ballot initiatives on each local ballot so that voters can make informed decisions on election day. Building an impressive database of everyone running for public office as well as issues...
Jan 8, 2020
Luis Herrero Acevedo founding partner, 303.Digital on characteristics of successful viral campaigns, best ways to mine for authentic endorsements, driving donations from hard core fans, value of micro-targeting to deliver the right message to the right segment of constituents, and insights about reaching Latino voters. ...