Congrats to my good friends at Blue State Digital! I've had the pleasure of working with them closely for the past three years and looking forward to the new relationship in 2011. WPP Digital acquires Blue State Digital, LLC |
WPP Digital acquires Blue State Digital, LLC |
Full-service digital agency developed “Obama for America” online campaign |
WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY), the world’s largest communications services group, announces that it has agreed to acquire all the assets of privately held Blue State Digital, LLC (BSD) in the United States and the United Kingdom through WPP Digital, the digital investment and operating arm of WPP. |
Blue State Digital is a full-service digital agency specializing in advocacy, membership and fundraising campaigns for nonprofits, educational and cultural institutions, political campaigns and corporate brands. The company’s annual revenue has grown in excess of 30% per year since its founding in 2004. BSD employs 130 people across its offices in Washington DC, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and London. |
Thomas Gensemer, Managing Partner of BSD, added, “We are excited to continue our growth within WPP Digital. We look forward to leveraging WPP’s vast resources, incredible talent, and deep client relationships around the world to grow our business and further extend our leadership for both non-profit and for-profit clients.” |
BSD was founded in 2004 and has helped over 250 clients inspire and engage people for fundraising, membership, and advocacy-oriented programs, raising over $800 million in contributions to date and generating tens of millions of online signups and actions. Their work on the 2008 “Obama for America” campaign is demonstrative of their market-leading approach to technology and online communications. In recent years, the company’s management has successfully applied their strategies to a diverse list of clients around the world including major non-profits, consumer brands, media properties and political causes. |
a great article discussing the problems with OPEC and how we can change the game with an open fuel standard.
disclosure - Renewable Fuels Association is a client of Tin Can Communications How to Ruin OPEC's Birthday |
| Fifty years ago this week, five
of the world's top oil-producing countries convened in Baghdad to form the
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The goal of the cartel
was to "assert its member countries' legitimate rights" and gain "a major say
in the pricing of crude oil on world markets." OPEC did just that. |
Half a century of a transportation
sector dominated by OPEC has numbed us to this reality and led us to accept the
cartel's shenanigans as a fait accompli. We shouldn't. In a modern global economy
where free trade, open markets, and strict anti-trust laws are bedrock principles,
there is no room for a cartel dominating any commodity -- not least the most
strategic one of all.
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To weaken OPEC we must change the
playing field altogether -- we must force the cartel to compete against not just
other oil suppliers, but other fuels and energy sources. We need new vehicles that
enable a whole new kind of fuel competition.
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Congress could make this happen
by imposing an open fuel standard, requiring new vehicles to be
flex-fuel-capable. Such a standard would put a virtual cap on the price of oil.
Consumers would opt for the most economic fuel on a per-mile cost basis and
thus shift to substitute fuels the next time OPEC allows the price of oil to exceed a
certain threshold. Because no automaker can give up on the U.S. market,
the open fuel standard would become a de facto global standard. Cars sold
anywhere in the world would be flex-fuel models, allowing small and developing
countries to develop competitive fuel markets and domestic alternative fuel
industries, while protecting themselves against economically devastating oil
shocks.
Read more at www.foreignpolicy.com |
I knew Bill and worked with him during my years in the wireless industry. He was a super nice guy who understood how the Senate operated and helped his clients navigate it. He will be missed... Three players lose father in crash |
The plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska Monday night also claimed the life of the father of football players at three universities. |
William "Bill" Phillips, who was Stevens' legislative director and chief of staff from 1981 to 1986, also was killed in the plane crash near Dillingham, in a remote part of Alaska. |
Three of Phillips' sons play football at NCAA FBS schools. Andrew Phillips is a fifth-year senior and starting guard at Stanford, where he was named second-team All-Pac-10 last season. |
Colter Phillips is a sophomore tight end at Virginia, where he had five catches for 34 yards in six starts in 2009. |
I drive a Flex Fuel Vehicle and I loved seeing Larry Nitz's comments on ethanol...
Disclosure - Tin Can Communications works with the Renewable Fuels Association Future fuel trends discussed |
TRAVERSE CITY -- During the 2010 Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars on Tuesday, auto executives debated which technologies to boost fuel efficiency will catch on in the short term. |
GM, meanwhile, is looking to ethanol. Larry Nitz, GM's executive director of hybrid and electric powertrain engineering, said ethanol remains the best short-term solution to improve fuel efficiency. |
GM has sold 5.5 million vehicles that can use E-85, a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. "If the fuel was available at a competitive price, these cars could use it," Nitz said. Read more at www.freep.com |
DC is very hungry for social media. Accordingly, it has been really fun being a part of it... Kudos to Jack on his latest innovation and launching it with politics in mind. This will be successful in the political space... Photos from Tommy Sowers, Paul Begala, Gov. Dean & Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder!) |
This is a super opportunity... According to a job post today, Twitter is looking for a government liaison to serve as a point person for the company in Washington D.C. The staff member will be the first D.C.-based employee for Twitter. |
You’ll be our first D.C. -based employee and the closest point of contact with a variety of important people and organizations looking to get the most out of Twitter on both strategic and highly tactical levels. You’ll help Twitter understand what we can do to better serve candidates and policymakers across party and geographical lines. You’ll support policymakers use of Twitter to help them communicate and interact with their constituents and the world. You’ll work with nearly every group at the company and at every level to pursue your vision for how Twitter ought to be. You’ll help set the culture and approach of a fledgling public policy department and be an important part of our very small company.
Read more at techcrunch.com |
I wasn't able to attend MWC but Mr. Lazaridis' comments are right on the mark. As many folks in the telecom policy discussions know, we have a looming spectrum crisis on the horizon. The FCC is focused on freeing up 500 MHz to be auctioned over the next decade and it is a good start. However, the current appetite for mobile broadband will not be satisfied and ten years is a long time.
BlackBerry is talking about the other side of the spectrum coin - Efficiency. This is something that has built into BlackBerry systems for a long time as it functioned over a paging network in its early days. In addition to being spectral efficient, it is good for consumers as well as the operators...
Disclosure - BlackBerry is a client...
Mike Lazaridis Keynote at Mobile World Congress - part 1
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This article is interesting and it seems the Prime Minister has some of his own invested interests.. Berlusconi vs. Google: Will Italy Censor YouTube? |
Hot on the heels of the Google vs. China censorship dispute, a new front in
the showdown between state power and Internet freedom is opening in Italy.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government is pushing through new
measures that would give the state control over online video content and
force anyone who regularly uploads videos to obtain a license from the
Ministry of Communications. The move is seen as yet another challenge to
Google — owner of YouTube — which says the new rules would in effect
force Internet service providers to police their own content.
Read more at www.time.com |
Excellent story at the source... This decision is really terrifying. Corporations and Unions now can unload their resources on campaigns. We need public financing of campaigns ASAP! | n one swoop, the court did away with nearly everything in federal campaign finance law, allowing corporations free reign to inject as much money as they jolly well please into federal campaigns. The decision completes what Slate's Dahlia Lithwick calls "The Pinocchio Project," in which the Court transforms "a corporation into a real live boy," complete with personhood, free-speech rights and the unfettered opportunity to drown the body politic in a tidal wave of perverse incentives.Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com |
great perspective and some good stuff in the comments... URL: www.avc.com
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WPP Digital acquires Blue State Digital…
