It takes more than an email to start a movement. Small conservative organizations and unknown candidates need to harness new and innovative ways to take their message to the streets and convince the public to join the fight. You will learn ways to increase membership, unique ideas to promote your cause, and inexpensive tricks of the trade

Cord Blomquist is the New Media Manager at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  For more than a decade, Cord has worked in new media promotions and web development.  Before coming to the Mercatus Center, Cord served as the Senior Communications Director for the Competitive Enterprise Institute and as the web coordinator for Congressman Mark Green.

Cord has been featured on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” as well as several nationally syndicated radio programs.  His writing has been cited by such publications as CNET News, The Wall Street Journal’s All Things D, ArsTechnica, and TechDirt.

Cord is a contributor to the Technology Liberation Front, the free market technology blog.