Booooooom complaints about Facebook ring hollow — clearly they view Facebook as a referral engine
There has been yet another blog post about Facebook destroying organic page views — this…
Advocacy tools are only one side of the government accountability equation
Increased government accountability and citizen engagement won’t come from more advocacy tools — we need…
Newspapers innovating with API’s the way you’d expect newspapers to innovate with API’s
Metered-digital paywalls, restrictive Terms of Use, and data-limited API’s present problems for newspapers trying to…
What poker can teach you about A/B tests and iterative website optimization
Cross posted over @ Medium— Testing is the poker tell of the digital world. During…
What can the political advocacy community learn from the open government community?
View a mind map of a proposed infrastructure that would facilitate information sharing in the…
Shareable graphics for Phonebank.org
I’ve created over 75 graphics to encourage people to share Phonebank.org content on Facebook. Through…
Stop the Goblin
Stop the Goblin was built to give people more ideas for how to save energy…
Phonebank.org
Phonebank.org was built for organizations to launch free advocacy calling campaigns — our goal is…
“You should try to restart”
If your go-to solution for computer problems is to tell someone to “restart their computer”…
FixGoogleAlerts.com definitely didn’t fix the problem
I’m a huge fan of Google Alerts — I use it on a regular basis…
My Digital Manager
Back in 2011, I co-founded and led product management for My Digital Manager, a digital…
19k Digitized Iowa Campaign Finance Records
Searching for campaign finance records on the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure board website has…
McCain vs Iowa
While not the prettiest site, I hard-coded McCainvsIowa.com in 2008 to showcase positions that Senator…