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By Andrew Rothman on Jun 12, 2009

On the Ground in Lebanon

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. ... more

By Nicole Haber on Jun 12, 2009

What a Movement Looks Like

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

By Dan Thain on Jun 10, 2009

Hope Still Stands

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. ... more

By Lauren Miller on Jun 08, 2009

BSD Makes Its Playbill Debut

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

By Alex Kellner on Jun 04, 2009

Meet BSD: Questions with Chuck Hagenbuch

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

By Laura Olin on May 29, 2009

Red Cross Wins 26% of $3 Million Pie; Target Adds Nearly 100,000 New Facebook Fans

Through a challenge called "Bullseye Gives," Target gave Facebook users the power to determine how it would distribute $3 million among 10 nonprofits, including BSD client the American Red Cross. The more votes a nonprofit received, the bigger slice of the $3 million pie it would win. Users could vote once every 24 hours over a period of two weeks. The Red Cross finished with 26% -- nearly $800,000 -- of the $3 million pie. ... more

By Scott Zumwalt on May 22, 2009

?BSD Online Tools? Launch Websites and Home Runs

It’s the dawn of a new era at Blue State Digital. Earlier this week, BSD’s newly formed softball team, The BSD Online Tools, took the field and won our first game against the Udall Udall Primos 16-14. ... more

By Scott Zumwalt on May 22, 2009

American Red Cross Rallies Support Online for Target’s Facebook Contest

With a few days to go until Target's "Bullseye Gives" Facebook campaign comes to a close, Blue State Digital produced a web video showcasing why people should log on to Facebook and vote for the Red Cross. ... more

By Nicole Haber on May 21, 2009

From a Movie to a Movement

It's hard to watch Trouble the Water -- the Academy Award nominated documentary account of the Katrina debacle -- without feeling spurred to take action.After watching the film, thousands of viewers went to troublethewaterfilm.com to send a message to their representatives in Washington demanding that Congress take action on the Gulf Coast. Over twenty thousand letters were sent.... more

By Scott Zumwalt on May 20, 2009

Speed Matters: The New Internet Speed Test

This week, Blue State Digital helped launch a brand new and improved Speed Matters website. Speedmatters.org is the number one resource for coverage of programs and policies that build affordable, universal high-speed broadband investment. ... more

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