Content Management Matters ™

With the Democratic National Convention well underway, bloggers have been busy covering every aspect of the political event.

Hundreds of bloggers descended upon Denver on Monday and will do so into St. Paul next week for the Republican National Convention. As with the changing face of politics, both parties understand the need to allow bloggers, who are often self-supported, into the fray, as they embrace the new social medium that is fast replacing television and other traditional media that has long been the primary resource of reaching out to voters.

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, most everyone can agree that how politics is covered online has changed dramatically from four years ago. With political convention season within days of peaking, the impact that online media has on coverage is hard to overlook.

As it turns out, political conventions have very little to do with television anymore.

Non-profit organizations that work to change policy on the local or state levels will revel in the latest news from the Sunlight Foundation.

Organizations using the open source constituent relationship management tool, CiviCRM, can now better connect their constituents and members to their elected officials, thanks to recent integration work that ties US federal data directly into CiviCRM records via the Sunlight Labs API.