Sarasota Patch

According to political strategists Matt MacWilliams and Ed Erikson: “[Cohen’s] open source Stampede marketing campaign may become the new model for how to fuse social media and grass-roots activism with the assets of existing organizations to engage and provoke the public in demanding change.”

Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder Coming to Sarasota to Fight Citizens United, Toni Whitt

TechPresident

"While 2012 will be remembered as the year of the tweet, 2013 may be remembered at the year of the jilted political tweep. In January, we analyzed candidate Twitter accounts for 33 of the most contested House races and found something a little unusual: after the election, most winning candidates stopped tweeting. 24 out of 33 of the winners went dark after Election Day"

2013: The Year of the Jilted Tweep?, Matthew MacWilliams and Edward Erikson

PBS Newshour

"Connecting with official sources can also foster engagement, said Edward Erikson, a political communications strategist. “It gives more and more people a window into that life and a window into that world that they wouldn’t really have access to otherwise,” Erikson said, using photographs of the Obama family as an example. "

#INAUG2013: How Social Media Changed our Inaugural Experience, Ellie Wilkinson 

Friends Eat

Matthew MacWilliams and Edward Erikson, believe Ben Cohen and his open source Stampede marketing campaign may “become the new model for how to fuse social media and grass-roots activism with the assets of existing organizations to engage and provoke the public in demanding change.”

Ben & Jerry's Co-founder Fights to Get Money Out of Politcs, Spence Cooper

Politico

“It’s a petition on steroids.” That’s the way Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, describes the Stamp Stampede — his guerrilla marketing campaign that uses money to get money out of politics. Literally.

Stamping Out Big Money in Politics,  Matthew MacWilliams and Edward Erikson