During my travels as an instructor and lecturer with GSPM International, I’ve watched the fields of public affairs and political communication develop and become increasingly professionalized around the world. In Washington, DC our tradition of public affairs feels like a permanent part of our political environment. Elsewhere, public affairs and...

Today, DCI Group Digital announces the launch of our Digital Public Affairs Outlook 2011, authored by my colleague Chip Griffin, who serves as DCI’s Chief Digital Officer. The white paper looks at how the changing political, policy, media, and technology environments will impact digital public affairs tactics throughout the year....

Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. A television channel announces it will air a brand new television show featuring one of the most polarizing figures in the country – a politician with a national reputation who invokes strong passions on both sides of the aisle. The kind of...

DCI Group Digital is looking for a new team member. We are currently recruiting a director of website and application development. You might be the right fit if you: Build fantastic websites and applications Know WordPress inside and out Speak “code” and “human” Relish a challenge and a good day’s...

by Julie Germany As my colleague at DCI Group Digital, Amanda Phraner, wrote earlier, the political world often gets stuck in a cycle of implementing comfortably habitual cookie-cutter tactics:: “Maybe it is the short-lived nature of political campaigns that lends to the accepted practice of simply running the last campaign....

by Julie Germany Last week at a a GovFresh open government conference in Manor, Texas, Beth Novek, the White House’s CTO for open government said, “Open innovation isn’t a ‘nice to do. It’s a must do in order to strengthen our democracy.” This is sentiment with which I and my...

by Julie Germany How do you know if a social media tactic worked? How do we define return on investment in the world of digital public affairs? These questions were addressed by a Social Media ROI panel at one of my favorite events each year – the Women Who Tech...

It’s burn out time inside the Beltway. For the rest of the country, September means back to school, and back to school means a fresh start. Autumn feels like the New Year. In politics, autumn means twenty-hour work days and no weekends, with the lingering, back-of-the-mind fear that in a...

I took part in an interesting conversation last week at a Department of State event called Celebrating our Caribbean Heritage. The session focused on using technology to organize Diasporas. It was part of a larger Department of State focus on working with Caribbean Diasporas, people who left their homes in...

This month Campaigns and Elections Magazine en Español asked me to write about new tools and applications for the political space.  The two types of tools that seem to generate a lot of interest when I travel to teach in Latin America are mobile applications and online, townhall-style tools that...