Laura Olin
Laura Olin is a member of Blue State's email team. Prior to joining BSD, she managed website content and social media strategy for the liberal advocacy group People For the American Way and created web content for the Center for American Progress. Before getting into online strategy, she aided fair housing litigation efforts at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. Olin received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.Sc. in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics.
Blog posts by Laura Olin:
- June 15, 2009 - New media in the Old World
- May 29, 2009 - Red Cross wins 26% of $3 million pie; Target adds nearly 100,000 new Facebook fans
Client Spotlight
Speed Matters
For the Communications Workers of America (CWA), BSD developed and implemented "Speed Matters", a comprehensive constituency-building media campaign around the issue of telecommunications equity. In a matter of months, BSD's program generated an email list of almost 100,000, and built CWA into a thought leader on this issue, enhancing the organization's credibility with legislators, opinion leaders, and the press. Full Case Study »
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“We had a website, but no real organizing tools. I called Blue State Digital and within days, hundreds of screening parties were being created.”