Insight

Cutting Through the Clutter: Pandora Internet Radio Delivers Ads Direct to Users

May 19, 2011 / posted by kevin

Published in Campaigns & Elections Magazine by Kevin Herman and Rick Ridder

Down-ballot races always face an uphill battle. When it comes to fundraising, increasing name identification, attracting earned media, and generating buzz around the campaign, the better-known “front-runners” tend to steal the limelight. This was certainly the case for Bernie Buescher, the 2010 Democratic candidate for Colorado secretary of state.

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Social Media Consulting

Wiresketching

Brainstorming Web Layouts and Wireframes

May 5, 2011 / posted by shawn

Most web designers use wireframing as an important first step in their creative process. A wireframe is the web industry’s term for a schematic or blueprint of how the website will be organized and how it will function. Wireframes are generally devoid of any stylistic expression (color, typography, etc.), and are instead simply intended to show how different components of the page are prioritized and located. In this sense, they are also the first step in developing the site’s overall user experience.

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Why we use Drupal

Vibrant community and flexible framework help us do cool stuff really fast

May 3, 2011 / posted by jeff

When I was in college, I spent a summer developing an events calendar and new publishing system. It had lots of nifty, sophisticated features, like an in-browser image cropper, event reminders and downloadable iCal files. And it was a lot of work. The next summer, while working on an indie film studio's webiste, I came to the realization that I could have built the entire calendar app in a couple weeks using Drupal. I have been developing almost entirely in Drupal ever since.

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Drupal Integration

Tools and Applications

Single page layouts on mobile

Position:fixed solutions

April 29, 2011 / posted by alex

Single page layouts are a really clean approach for brochure style websites, and all it takes is jQuery scrollTo() and a position:fixed navigational element to have a sleek looking face-page. Oh wait, whats that mobile webkit? You don’t do position fixed. Awesome.

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Drupal Integration

Tools and Applications

Albatross Digital Wins a Reed Award!

For Best Use of Social Networking Technology; Also Finalist for TV’s Best Non-U.S. Campaign

March 4, 2011 / posted by kevin

Denver, CO, February 5, 2011 – Albatross Digital and RBI Strategies & Research are pleased to announce that they have won a Campaigns & Elections Politics magazine 2011 ReedAward for a social networking campaign on Pandora designed for Bernie Buescher's election as Colorado Secretary of State.

“We are honored that our peers in political consulting have recognized our Pandora campaign as a prime example of political advertising at the forefront of Web 2.0.,” said Rick Ridder, President and Co-Founder of RBI Strategies & Research.

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Government is a good thing

March 2, 2011 / posted by kevin

Over here at Albatross we believe that government is a good thing. Working with progressive candidates, organizations and issues has been a pleasure and something we plan to continue doing for a long time. As our friends at RBI Strategies & Research like to put it, we enjoy “doing good things for good people”.

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