A national group of technologists on the right gathered together on Twitter for our April 15th, 2013 Polichat. People from Colorado, Kentucky, Florida, Maryland, and California gathered to talk tech, politics, and the Internets.
Want to know what was said? Here’s the best of the tweets from today.
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This week I head back to our nation’s Capitol for Campaigns and Election’s 2013 Campaign Technology Conference. I’m very excited to be in attendance to learn from both sides of the aisle. The best of both sides will be there and I’m going to learn all I can from them.
Conferences are a great way to meet colleagues that you have worked with or know, network with others that you want to get to know, and keep learning in your chosen field or industry. Here’s what I’ll be wanting to learn, panels I’ll sit in on, and people I wish to meet.
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Every Monday at Noon Eastern, conservative digital activists, professional new media politicos, and technologists gather around Twitter for what we’ve called “#Polichat”.
Questions come via email, twitter, and even snail mail and smoke signal (ok, so maybe not the latter two, I just wanted to make sure you were paying attention. Without further ado, I bring you a Storify’d version of the #Polichat discussion from today!
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The New Media Politico is a new breed of individual coming online to help win elections. This new person is gifted with experience and expertise in field work, recruiting volunteers, and hitting goals of phone calls and door contacts during a campaign. He or she is also savvy in finding the right events to attend and the right people to connect with. The New Media Politico also has the expertise to code and be technologically astute and has a good grasp of coding and creating things on the Internet.
But for many of us politicos we understand the ground game of politics, but we’re unfamiliar and frankly a little afraid to branch out to learning how to code. Believe me, I totally understand. That’s why I’ve written this post on how you can learn how to code today. Hopefully, you can learn a new skill set that will make you more marketable to employers. Read on for how you can learn to code today. Continue Reading…
ACU ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES-CPAC 2013 STRAW POLL
For Immediate Release: March 16, 2013
Contact: Laura Keehner Rigas, (202) 999-9028, lrigas@conservative.org
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC 2013) concluded with Senator Rand Paul winning the CPAC Straw Poll. The Straw Poll was sponsored by The Washington Times and conducted by Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates.
Today’s 40th Annual National CPAC was a high-energy three-day conference bracketed by dynamic remarks by top regional and national conservative leaders.
In first place, Rand Paul secured 25% percent of the vote by registered CPAC attendees, followed by Senator Marco Rubio at 23% percent. Former Senator Rick Santorum received 8% percent of the vote, closely followed by Governor Chris Christie with 7% percent and Representative Paul Ryan with 6% percent.
A total of over 60 names were either listed or written in. The top two names received nearly 50% of the vote.
“We convened thousands of energized conservatives today at this 40th Annual National CPAC 2013 from across the entire country,” said ACU Chairman Al Cardenas. “It’s been a long-standing and fun tradition at CPAC National as well as our regional CPACs to poll the attendees and get their opinion on a number of important issues.”
“The Washington Times is honored to partner with CPAC to measure the pulse of conservatives at this key moment in the movement,” said Larry Beasley, President and CEO of The Washington Times.
The Washington Times-CPAC 2013 Straw Poll results help benchmark how conservatives perceive key issues and their preferred candidates heading into the next election.
Every year, the ACU brings thousands of grassroots conservatives and conservative leaders together in Washington, D.C., and now in regional conferences comprising blockbuster speeches, policy discussions and networking opportunities – all celebrating the shared principles of smaller government, a strong national defense and traditional values. The next CPAC event will be March 6-8, 2014.
To view the final results of the poll, click here.
The American Conservative Union is America’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization and was founded in 1964. The ACU has hosted CPAC in the Nation’s Capital since 1974. To learn more about the Conservative Political Action Conferences, please visit conservative.org/.
Founded in 1964, the American Conservative Union (ACU) is the oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization in the nation. For almost fifty years, ACU has served as an umbrella organization harnessing the collective strength of conservative organizations fighting for Americans who are concerned with liberty, personal responsibility, traditional values, and strong national defense. ACU defines conservatism, grows conservatism, and wins for conservatism.
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