Speaking Out and Making a Difference
Cynics often tell us that politicians or companies don't listen to the views of the public, and that direct advocacy is subject to the laws of diminishing returns.
Wrong. ... more
Prince of Wales Joins BSD to Save the Rainforests
His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, is well known for his commitment to tackling climate change by protecting the world's rainforests. When he decided to take his work to raise awareness online, his organisation, the Prince's Rainforests Project turned to Blue State Digital.... more
Meet BSD: Questions with Murali
Murali is a key player on Blue State Digital's design and production team. Since joining BSD, Murali has designed and implemented dozens of websites for BSD's clients. He came to BSD with online experience from M+R Strategic Services, Mobilestop.com, Strax and Inecta. He moonlights as a musical composer.... more
Facebook Won’t Solve All of Your Problems
Facebook isn't that simple. You can't just create a group, put up a page, and expect millions of people to join your cause - or pull out their credit cards to make a donation. And it's especially difficult to move people off of Facebook and take action offline or on another site.... more
A Glimpse Behind the Scenes of MyBO’s Tech Shop
Chuck Hagenbuch and Leigh Heyman, two members of Blue State Digital's premier technology team, spoke with Colin Charles about running my.barackobama.com.... more
Bringing the Political Campaign to the Academic Arena
The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the newest approach to collegiate fundraising that emphasizes online tactics to approach alumni that are under the age of forty in an article posted on its website today. ... more
Blue State Digital Clients Win Eight Golden Dot Awards
This morning, the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet announced the recipients of the 2009 Golden Dot Awards and Blue State Digital clients received eight of the awards.... more
Inspiring Ocean Lovers
Ocean Now, a project of National Geographic and Blue State Digital client, is about halfway through its exploration of a portion of the Ocean where very few humans have ever gone before.... more
Meet BSD: Questions with Matthew McGregor
Matthew McGregor is the head of Blue State Digital’s rapidly growing London office. A veteran of the Jon Cruddas for Deputy Leader and Ken Livingstone for Mayor campaigns, Matthew spent several months in the United States following the 2008 election when he joined BSD at the end of the summer. In addition, he has worked on a variety of other campaigns including an anti-British National Party campaign. Matthew was recently published in The Change We Need – What Britain can learn from Obama’s Victory. ... more
Insights From Jascha Franklin-Hodge
Blue State Digital CTO and founding partner, Jascha Franklin-Hodge sat down with Marketing Magazine earlier this month to answer questions about online organizing, the Obama campaign and more.... more