Social Media

Blue Jackets' win earns $10K for charity
January 18, 2011

What started with a tweet from a 25-year-old Blue Jackets fan Wednesday morning ended Friday night with more than $10,000 pledged to local charities and nonprofit organizations.

In an effort to rouse the Jackets from a five-game losing streak, Columbus resident Tyler Schweinfurth got on Twitter and promised $20 to the Jackets player who delivered a winning goal Friday night against the Detroit Red Wings.

By the time the Jackets took the ice in Nationwide Arena, nearly 150 people, got behind the drive and pledged $5,327 to the "money on the board" campaign.

 

Nonprofits gain online savvy from Woods' social media students
January 4, 2011

Catholic Charities of Terre Haute has a new Facebook page and Terre Haute Children’s Museum has a new video aimed at recruiting volunteers. Both nonprofits have benefited from the work of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College students, who've helped them better use social media.

The “Social Marketing Experiment” project is funded through a $15,000 Ball Brothers Foundation Venture grant and the Lilly Endowment. Teams of on-campus and distance student-interns piloted the program, in which they designed and implemented social marketing strategies for the nonprofits.

WPP Digital acquires Blue State Digital, LLC
January 3, 2011

WPP, 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.

Activist groups take full advantage of new media outlets to spread their message
December 29, 2010

When black college students began the sit-in protests that led to the integration of the Jim Crow South, news spread quickly by word of mouth. Soon, students in several states were engaged in similar nonviolent sit-ins, spurring on the civil rights movement.

Fast forward 50 years: Civil rights activists advocating everything from reform of the criminal justice system to boycotts of conservative media figures are trying to revive that kind of energy using tweets, e-mails, Facebook friends and carefully crafted blog postings.