[Op-Ed] Your In-Box is Personal, and That's What Makes Email Powerful
BY Martha Patzer | Wednesday, December 3 2014
Joe Rospars recently wrote in Time about the perceived “creative crisis" in the Democratic Party, a debate about online fundraising, and the responsibility writers, digital directors, and even candidates have to the creative direction of a campaign. Joe's answer -- “Don’t be lame” -- is a great place to start. But it doesn’t answer the why: Unlike those TV ads, email is personal. Read More
First POST: Nudges
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, November 3 2014
How campaign tech has evolved in 2014; Joe Rospars on the Democratic party email crisis; how Facebook, ABC News and BuzzFeed are going to data-mine politics heading into 2016; and much, much more. Read More
Teddy Goff and Joe Rospars On How Obama's Campaign Is Trying to Get Back to the "We"
BY Nick Judd | Friday, February 17 2012
Getting back to the "we" of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign — the now-legendary level of energy and individual commitment from grassroots volunteers that Obama was able to harness en route to an improbable victory in the Democratic primary and then in the general election for the presidency of the United States — is in many ways the "central challenge" of his 2012 re-election effort, Obama for America Digital Director Teddy Goff said Friday.Speaking with Obama's chief digital strategist, Joe Rospars, and techPresident publisher Andrew Rasiej at a Social Media Week event in a conference room at Thomson-Reuters with a panoramic view of New York City, Goff described the myriad ways Obama's re-election effort is looking to harness digital tools to connect with voters, whether they be supporters from 2008 or newcomers to politics.
Read MoreSome More About the Grassrootiness of Obama's Second Quarter Fundraising Numbers
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, July 13 2011
Joe Rospars, chief digital strategist for Obama 2012 (and the wunderkind who masterminded the campaign's 2008 new media operation), has a post up on the Obama for America blog that appears to respond to the questions I ... Read More
Obama Campaign Now Recruiting 'Analysts and Data Geniuses,' Among Others
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, June 15 2011
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign recently sent an email to selected people on its lists, seeking paid staffers to bolster its new media and web development operations. From the email, signed by Obama's chief ... Read More
Rospars and Slaby Rejoin Obama, But in New Roles for New Media '12
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, April 29 2011
Note: This post has been updated with details on Rospars and Slaby's roles on the campaign. Joe Rospars in a 2009 photo; photo credit: gooliver The Obama campaign staffed up its new media operation today by hiring on two ... Read More
Interview: Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Blue State Digital Partner, on Being Acquired by Global Giant WPP
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, December 30 2010
Blue State Digital, the firm that gained notice for its role in in the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, announced today that it had been fully aquired by global communications giant WPP. Read More
Marshall Ganz on How Obama Failed to Lead
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, November 3 2010
Marshall Ganz, the man who devised Barack Obama's grassroots organizing model in 2008, and a master community organizer, has an eloquent statement in the LA Times on what went wrong for Obama between 2008 and 2010. His ... Read More
Rospars Laments Passion's Absence
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, November 1 2010
When it comes to the innovation use of digital tools, why has the 2010 election cycle been, frankly, a little dull? It comes down, writes Obama '08 new media director Joe Rospars, to a lack of passion: Without a massive ... Read More
One Word: "Email"
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, August 9 2010
AdAge's Edmund Lee reports on the increasing centrality of online search-tied ads as part of the campaign repertoire. But a voice of caution comes to us from Joe Rospars, Blue State Digital co-founder and, of course, the ... Read More