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TechPresident

TechPresident was a nonpartisan political website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 2007 to monitor the United States presidential election of 2008 and was active until 2015. The site followed how the campaigns were utilizing new Internet-based strategies and how citizens were creating content, such as YouTube videos and Facebook groups, using the social media technologies.

Last revised
Jun 7, 2026
Read time
≈ 1 min
Length
160 w
Citations
2
Source
techPresident
Type of site
Blogging
Available inEnglish
OwnerAndrew Rasiej (Publisher)
Created by
  • Andrew Rasiej
  • Micah L. Sifry (Co-founder)
Editor
  • Jessica McKenzie (Managing)
  • Antonella Napolitano (Europe)
URLtechpresident.com
RegistrationOptional
Launched2007 (2007)
OCLC number753905092

TechPresident was a nonpartisan political website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry1 with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 20072 to monitor the United States presidential election of 2008 and was active until 2015. The site followed how the campaigns were utilizing new Internet-based strategies and how citizens were creating content, such as YouTube videos and Facebook groups, using the social media technologies.

TechPresident was an extension of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and online magazine which focused on the broader topic of how technology is changing politics and advocacy.

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  1. "About Personal Democracy Media | Staff". Personal Democracy Forum. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
  2. Levine, Robert (2007-02-12). "Here's the Online Line on Online Politics". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
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