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Share Picture this: You’re in a staff meeting, and a colleague serves up the great idea you expressed during an earlier brainstorm as her own. You want so desperately to raise your hand and say, “Um, excuse me? That was MY idea.” Source: webster.edu Perhaps this is because, of all the ideas we generate during say, a [...] January 25th, 2012 | Tags: citation, citing, communications, communicators, Congress, inventors, online, online piracy, PIPA, plagiarism, PR, Protect IP Act, public relations, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act bill, words, writers, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial
One comment | Share: Share Visuals can be more important to effective communication than the words we use. Vanguard’s Integrated Media Services group leader Crystal Borde predicts digital media will become more visual in 2012, while editorial director LeAnne DeFrancesco argues for the power of images when communicating your message. A More Visually Appealing New Year In 2011, websites, media outlets [...] December 21st, 2011 | Tags: communication, digital media, Facebook, future, graphic design, graphics, images, infographics, InSites for the Future, Integrated Media Services, new year, Pinterest, smart phone, social networks, Vanguard, Vanguard Communications, visual, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial, Integrated Media Services, Uncategorized
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Source: Roland Tiangco photograph on CultureHall.com Vanguard will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2012. We’re proud of our accomplishments, but we’re also excited about what the future holds for social change communications. Through the end of the year we will be sharing our predictions for 2012 and beyond under the title, “InSites for the [...] December 19th, 2011 | Tags: communications, digital media, future, InSites for the Future, message, messaging, multicultural communications, new year, partnerships, predictions, public relations, social change, social media, Vanguard, Vanguard Communications, visuals | Categories: Design & Editorial, Event Planning, Integrated Media Services, Multicultural Outreach, Online Marketing, Social Marketing, Strategic Planning, Training & TA
Leave a comment | Share: Share As someone who spends a lot of time working on the issue of electricity grid modernization, I get a number of trade publications every day. They love to cover (and we love to weigh in on) the power industry’s struggles to engage customers. Since most utilities are virtual monopolies, most have never really talked [...] June 10th, 2011 | Categories: Advertising & Promotion, Design & Editorial, Strategic Planning, Training & TA
One comment | Share: Share Romanization of character language systems, such as Chinese, can pose cultural and linguistic challenges for communicators. Photo credit: Our Signature by 2493™ on Flickr Have you noticed in the coverage about the protests in Libya that the name of the country’s leader is spelled differently depending on the news organization? I’ve seen his name reported as Muammar el-Qaddafi, [...] March 1st, 2011 | Tags: audience outreach, audience research, communication, cultural competency, el-Qaddafi, Gaddafi, Gadhafi, language, Latin, Libya, linguistic competency, multicultural communication, Multicultural Outreach, Qaddafi, Romanization, Slate, transliteration | Categories: Design & Editorial, Multicultural Outreach, Policy Communications, Social Issues, Social Marketing
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