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Taking Care of Mind and Body is Critical to U.S. Health Care Reform

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This post is a part of our series of contributions for Social Good Day.

Type “health challenges facing the U.S.” into your favorite search engine. I imagine that the results won’t be all too surprising. You’ll find stories about what’s coming next as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is implemented. You’ll read about the burden that preventable chronic [...]

Some Basic Blogging Benefits

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The decision to start up a blog is not one that should be taken lightly. At Vanguard Communications, we had to consider whether our insights and commentary on communications issues would benefit the already robust public relations blog community. Since you’re reading this post on our blog, you know which way we decided, and [...]

Like Bill Gates Shows, Leaders' Personal Messages Online Can Be a Winning Strategy

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I know, not everyone is Bill Gates. Very few people on the planet can gain 100,000 followers on Twitter eight hours after launching their Twitter profile.

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But perhaps we should start thinking like Bill.

Using his newly formed Twitter community, Gates recently launched his newest endeavor, The Gates Notes, where he [...]

Welcome to the New InSites Blog!

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It’s the start of a new year and a time to try new things. With that in mind, I’ve been asked by Vanguard staff to kick off the year with a blog about social change communications.  Hmmm…

For me it’s easy to think about how a social media tactic, such as blogging, can help our [...]