| Blue State Digital | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters |  Washington, D.C. |
| Key people | Jascha Franklin-Hodge (Founding Partner) & (CTO) Thomas Gensemer (Managing Partner) Joe Rospars (Founding Partner) Ben Self (Founding Partner) & (Program Director) |
| Industry | Consulting |
| Website | www.bluestatedigital.com |
Blue State Digital is an Internet strategy and technology firm based in Washington, D.C. The company was founded in early 2004 by four members of the Howard Dean Presidential Campaign: Clay A. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. A chief technical officer or chief technology officer (abbreviated as CTO) is an executive position whose holder is focused on scientific and technical issues within Joe Rospars is the New Media Director for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign for President of the United States. In service industries such as Education, a program director researches plans develops and implements one or more of the firm's professional services For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Howard Brush Dean III, (born November 17 1948 is an American Johnson, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Joe Rospars, and Ben Self. Joe Rospars is the New Media Director for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign for President of the United States. They are involved in providing custom Internet applications and communications strategies to Democratic organizations, political candidates, and non-profit organizations. Clay left the firm in late January of 2008, leaving just three founding partners.
Blue State Digital was a recipient of the Fast Company magazine Fast 50 award in 2006. Fast Company is a full-color not-quite-monthly (10 issues per year business magazine that reports on innovation digital media technology Change management
2007 "Hillary Clinton 1984" YouTube video
A former employee of Blue State Digital, Philip de Vellis, admitted to having created a widely-circulated video, Hillary 1984 , that edited clips from Hillary Clinton campaign videos into the famous 1984 television advertisement by Apple Inc. In a blog entry posted on The Huffington Post, de Vellis indicated that he had resigned from Blue State Digital. Hillary 1984 is the title of the Viral video that combines the footage of the 2008 presidential campaign web announcement by Hillary Clinton with the Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26 1947 is the junior United States Senator from 1984 is the American Television commercial which introduced the Macintosh Personal computer for the first time Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics The Huffington Post (often referred to on the Internet as HuffPo) is a liberal News Website and aggregated Weblog [1] The company later released a statement claiming that they had terminated his employment. Mr. de Vellis stated in an interview with the Associated Press that he had created the video from home and that Blue State Digital had nothing to do with its creation. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio
The Barack Obama campaign released a statement on the news, stating: "The Obama campaign or its employees had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. We were notified this evening by a vendor of ours, Blue State Digital, that an employee of the company had been involved in the making of this ad. Blue State Digital has separated ties with this individual and we have been assured he did no work on our campaign's account. "
However, de Vellis has claimed that he helped design the Obama website [2]. And de Vellis lived with Senator Obama's press secretary in 2006 [3] while they were both working on Sherrod Brown's campaign for Senate. Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9 1952) is the junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio, and a member
References
External links
- Blue State Digital - Company website
- [2] - Hillary Clinton '1984' ad explained at Blue State Digital website
- Phil de Vellis admission - The Huffington Post
- Hillary 1984 - video
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