#TeamLiberati Client PLAYGROUND DETROIT Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Build Artist Space

Posted on November 28, 2016December 14, 2016 by Justin Wedes

We’ve partnered with creative catalysts PLAYGROUND DETROIT to launch a crowd-funding campaign aimed at transforming a vacant storefront into an artistic hub in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Detroit! Check out their campaign video: If funded, the organization led by Detroiters Paulina Petkoski and Samantha Banks Schefman will be building a gallery, retail, and performance space for Detroit’s growing artistic community, the[…]

#TeamLiberati’s Mama Shu Goes on The Ellen Show!

Posted on September 26, 2016December 14, 2016 by Justin Wedes

The blog below is reposted from TheAvalonVillage.org, the online home of the Avalon Village. We’re so excited that our client Shamayim ‘Mama Shu’ Harris was featured recently on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and gifted a new home! We are a bit overwhelmed after a whirlwind start to the week that included an appearance on The[…]

Liberati Client ‘Avalon Village’ Goes Viral

Posted on June 16, 2016December 14, 2016 by Justin Wedes

A sustainable eco-village in the heart of Detroit brought on #TeamLiberati to help them reach a broader audience as they shoot for a nearly quarter-million dollar Kickstarter goal. We used a combination of grassroots bottom-up buzz (social media, email marketing, text message loops, community dinners and old-fashioned flyering) combined with sophisticated PR (press wrangling, leveraging[…]

Happy Thanksgiving from #TeamLiberati

Posted on November 25, 2015December 14, 2016 by Justin Wedes

From all of us here at #TeamLiberati, we wish you and yours a happy, healthy and gobbly-gobbly Thanksgiving.

Case Study: The Global Platform

Posted on September 24, 2015December 14, 2016 by Justin Wedes

For the last six months, we’ve been engaged in an exciting project called The Global Platform on Participation and Protest, a new data visualization and exploration tool for world protests. This project was highly-collaborative, encompassing the participation of at least four different kinds of actors: researchers from the political foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Initiative[…]

Crowdfunding Tips for the Broke and Hopeful

Posted on September 3, 2015December 14, 2016 by Justin Wedes

Crowdfunding is on everybody’s tongue these days. It’s a $5+ billion industry, and everyone from companies to non-profits to some random shoe salesman in the UK who wanted to bail out Greece are using it. And a lot of people are using it wrong. So what is the single, simple, one-sentence key to a successful crowd-fundraising campaign, you might ask?[…]

What Disaster Relief Can Teach Us About Digital Campaigns

Posted on August 27, 2015December 14, 2016 by Justin Wedes

There’s an old saying that has become almost cliche these days: Necessity is the mother of invention. When Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey in October, 2012 I was winding down my work with the Occupy movement and looking ahead towards digital campaigning for politicos and advocacy groups. All of a sudden, thousands were[…]