Kearney O'Doherty

BALTIMORE, Md., July 12, 2010 – Kearney O’Doherty Public Affairs, a consulting firm founded by two of the Mid-Atlantic’s most effective political strategists, has announced a new partnership with Storyfarm New Media, a Baltimore-based video marketing firm. In partnering with Storyfarm, Kearney O’Doherty (KO) seeks to provide its clients with the highest-quality and most effective digital videos. The firms will work together to craft communication tools that shape public dialogue.

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KO Digital is a national digital strategy practice that adds depth to the firm through a range of new services, including expanding clients’ reach and profitability on the mobile web and producing measureable results through content management and creation. KO Digital and Storyfarm New Media will provide professional, high-definition videos as part of comprehensive strategies to help businesses, nonprofits and other institutions reach their goals.

Our first video series in our partnership with KO Digital, these are designed to probe the use of social media in government. The effects of social media are so far-reaching, and it is still so new. Government is just now beginning to use social media as a primary channel to interact with the public. Here, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman talks about how he's using social media in leading on of the country's wealthiest counties.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has always been on the leading edge of new things. A City Councilwoman at the age of 25, she became Baltimore's mayor at the precise time when social media began to cement itself into the lives of most Americans. Her administration has made the use and expansion of social media a priority. Here, Mayor Rawlings-Blake talks about how the police use social media, and how her draft pick suggestions on Twitter apparently never made it to Coach Harbaugh!