User Profile for Colin Delany (Colin_Delany)

Bio: Colin Delany is founder and editor of epolitics.com, a site that focuses on the tools and tactics of Internet politics and online political advocacy. Epolitics.com was given a Golden Dot Award as "Best Blog - National Politics" at the 2007 Politics Online Conference.

Delany cut his professional teeth in the early '90s in the Texas Capitol (where politics is considered a contact sport) and began working in the online world in 1995. In 1999, he helped to start a targeted search engine for politics and policy, which he rode into inevitable oblivion during that first Internet boom and bust. Since then, Delany has worked as a consultant to help dozens of advocacy campaigns promote themselves in the digital world, and is currently employed full-time as online communications manager at the National Environmental Trust. He also plays bass in a rock and roll band.

Colin has recently spoken at:

• The Beltway Blogger Bootcamp (October '06)


• New Organizing Institute Online Activism Training (February '07)


• Politics Online Conference (March '07)


• N-Ten Nonprofit Technology Conference (April '07)


• Election '08: Covering Politics in Cyberspace, a seminar sponsored by the Knight New Media Center/USC Annenberg School for Communication (April '07)

Besides his own e-book, "Online Politics 101: The Tools and Tactics of Online Advocacy," which can be downloaded at epolitics.com, Colin has also contributed articles to the following publications and websites:

• Person-to-Person-to-Person: Harnessing the Political Power of Online Social Networks and User Generated Content (Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet)


• Email Marketing by the Numbers


• techPresident


• Idealware

He was also cited extensively as a source in the 2007 book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. Delany lives in Washington, DC.

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