Longtime BSD client Wal-Mart Watch has always run "site fight" campaigns directed at individual communities fighting to keep Wal-Mart out. Its most recent local campaign might be its biggest yet: activating populations in the three biggest cities in the U.S.: New York, Chicago and LA (where Wal-Mart has almost no stores, but is looking now to start building). So far, it's been a great success.
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It's a classic love story. Boy works for Blue State Digital. Girl works for Blue State Digital. Boy and girl reconnect after leaving Blue State Digital, fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after.
Congratulations to Tom Cochran and Erin Skinner, two of Blue State Digital's first employees who were married this past Saturday.... more
It’s summertime and that means that interns, co-ops and fellows are joining the BSD ranks for the next several months. Blue State Digital is excited to welcome these new additions to our team.... more
When Gov. Martin O'Malley set out for a five-day trip to Europe last week, he wanted to make sure the people of Maryland could come along for the journey.
With the governor outfitted with a digital camera for stills and an HD "Flip" camera for video, BSD created a map for MartinOMalley.com that would track the governor along each leg of his trip - and Team O'Malley took it from there.... more
Darkness fell over our nation's capital last night when the BSD Online Tools recorded the final out in 20-15 slugfest against the Shadow Boxers. The victory marks the second win in franchise history and brings the Tools record to 2-0.
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For the past few weeks, Blue State Digital teamed up with The Carter Center to bring the organization's election monitoring efforts to a global audience. The Center -- which was founded by President Jimmy Carter to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope around the world -- sent a team of 60 international observers to Lebanon to assess whether the elections were free, fair, and peaceful. As Election Day came and went, The Carter Center website featured daily blog updates from the field, including stunning photos and insightful stories and a great video of President Carter at a polling station.
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A video of a dancing, bathing suit-clad, music festival audience member has recently gone viral. About one minute into the video a huge dance party forms around him, and people are asking: "how'd he do it?"... more
BSD London started working with the HOPE not Hate campaign in mid-January, with the goal of stopping the fascist British National Party (BNP) from winning a breakthrough in the European elections - and building an organic grassroots campaign. Facing a difficult political climate, Hope not Hate was able to limit the BNP to just two seats and displayed that an open organisation that treats its supporters with genuine respect can be very successful in the UK.
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For the past few months, BSD has been working with the Tony Awards to create a new, more engaging online communications program. Our work has focused on reinvigorating the Tony Awards' email program to encourage a new generation of theatre fans across the country to watch the ceremony, and create an ongoing conversation that keeps fans interested year-round (not just the month before the show).... more
Chuck Hagenbuch is the lead of the software infrastructure team at Blue State Digital - overseeing the development of BSD's Online Tools and integrating new technologies into Blue State's core services. During the election, Chuck led the development of the mass mail backend server that powered the 1.3 billion email messages sent through BSD. Prior to coming to Blue State Digital, Chuck founded Horde - an open source communication and collaboration application framework, of which he still leads the development. He is one of the longest tenured members of BSD's Boston office... more
