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New Statesman: How to fix the funding issue
At a closed seminar day held at London's Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA), digital marketing strategists Blue State Digital and Cogapp gathered together marketing heads of many of the UK's leading museums and galleries to discuss the potential of raising money via online marketing campaigns.
Today (BBC Radio 4): Online fundraisers ‘build emotional bonds’
The director of the Tate warns that the scale of the government's cuts is the biggest threat to arts and heritage since the public funding began in 1940. Rich Mintz of Blue State Digital, which organised fundraising for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, examines the possibility of internet funding for British arts.
Fundraising Success/FS Advisor: Blue State Digital Launches BSDTools.com
Blue State Digital has launched a new site dedicated to the company’s licensed toolset at BSDTools.com. BSD Tools is the CRM, fundraising, e-mail marketing and organizing platform that helps nonprofits, political campaigns, advocacy organizations and businesses build communities and galvanize them to take action online and off. The platform, best known for powering Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, has been retooled and relaunched to serve a broader range of organizations.
LabourList: Join LabourList and Left Foot Forward at conference
This year LabourList and Left Foot Forward are teaming up to organise a fringe event at the famous "Night and Day cafe" in Manchester. On Tuesday night, we bring you an event in two parts. First up is "Work", a high quality line-up of online campaigners from 8pm. Joe Rospars (Obama's 2008 New Media Director from Blue State Digital) will be joined by Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome and Matthew McGregor, also of Blue State Digital. The event will be overseen by Will Straw and Alex Smith.
MediaShift: Hallmarks of Good Campaign Sites: Simplicity, Inspire Action
A political campaign website is the place where candidates recruit new volunteers, and where the candidate can get their message out unfiltered. It's more important than ever, and yet many candidates still struggle to get it right.
Direct Marketing News: Valpak to launch deals site
Coupon company Valpak will launch a deals website in November to provide advertisers and local businesses with another avenue to reach consumers.
TechPresident: Blue State Digital Wants You To Use Its Toolbox
Blue State Digital, the digital firm made famous for helping to power Barack Obama to the White House, has just rolled out a new set of stand-alone online organizing tools targeted at progressive campaigns, companies, organizations, and advocacy groups that, according to BSD CTO and founding partner Jascha Franklin-Hodge, "don't necessarily have the resources or organizational orientation to bring in external strategists," as in, the full force of Blue State's operations, "but still want to run phenomenal campaigns."
HUFFPOST HILL: HUFFPOST HILL: September 15, 2010
Reps from Blue State Digital -- best known for designing President Obama's oft-mimicked campaign website -- send word that they have just launched BSDTools.com.
Inc. : #658 : Blue State Digital
BSD is recognized as one of Inc.'s fasting growing companies for the 2010 Inc. 500/5000 list. Blue State Digital placed at number 658 out of the 5000 companies ranked.
TechPresident: Demanding More in Brazil
Obama campaign vets Blue State Digital are running the new media operation for Workers' Party candidate Dilma Rousseff, and BSD's Joe Rospars suggests in the piece that the hunger for digital political engagement in Brazil will only grow.