At B2G we try to stay on top of what everyone’s doing out there, and here in California we expect to see some of the best campaign websites emerge for the 2010 cycle. Most of the field has their developers and designers already tweaking stylesheets and enhancing their flash movies.

As new candidates enter they will [...]

Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, Independent or what have you, there is no denying that political technology is changing the game.  See which stories matter to the “future of the GOP.”

I recently came across this post on CNN about whether tech personalities can break into politics. It is a well-written article that compares Whitman to other political novices who made it into their state’s top office. Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Ronald Reagan each made the leap. Meg Whitman, with her tech cred, shouldn’t [...]

Following up on yesterday’s Gov 2.0 post, I found another, much closer to home example of this trend. San Francisco, home of Twitter and a host of other Web 2.0 companies, launched its very own App Store. In a move to make government more “transparent” and increase “access” to data in SF, Mayor Newsom proudly [...]

It has been a very active month in the Government 2.0 universe. The Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C. ended this week, just in time for Facebook to launch its government page. Not to be outdone, Google launched a government page recently too.

We appear to be in the midst [...]

A few pointers on how campaigns are saving money using political technology

It is (and has been) my opinion for some time now, that today we stand at the foothills of an unconquered mountain. This mountain is made of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT)  and we have yet to ascend even the foot.

We have however, come into contact with the first plataue – “Web2.0″. Unlike other great techno-cultural [...]