Joe Rospars has been a principal writer and Internet strategist for Howard Dean since 2003, and has worked with various organizations in every area of an organization’s online presence, from message development to online brand building to grassroots organizing.

During Dean’s presidential campaign, Joe conceived and implemented strategies that reshaped American politics and brought hundreds of thousands of Americans into the political process for the first time. After the campaign, Joe founded Blue State Digital with three technologists from the campaign. Blue State Digital provides strategy and technology for Democratic campaigns and political organizations like
Democracy for America, Senator Ted Kennedy, the Center for American Progress and Representative Bernie Sanders.

In 2005, when Howard Dean was elected Chairman of the Democratic Party, he asked Blue State Digital to transform the party’s Internet operation. As part of the project, Joe led a reorganization of the party bureaucracy and oversaw the creation of an entirely new department to focus on Internet strategy, grassroots organizing and fundraising. As the youngest member of the party’s senior leadership, he led a
transformation of the relationship between the DNC and ordinary Democrats and doubled the party’s online fundraising numbers.

Blue State Digital was recently named one of the “Fast 50” companies in the world by Fast Company magazine. The recognition of those 50 leaders, creative thinkers, innovators, and technology pioneers seeks to “remind the world of all the good that’s created when passionate people with big ideas and strong convictions are determined to make a difference.”