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Can Red and Blue Support Green Light Bulbs?

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How many liberals and conservatives does it take to change a light bulb? According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the answer depends on how you describe the bulb.

Source: Joe Colburn’s Flickr page

After identifying their political ideology, a set of 210 potential bulb buyers were [...]

Purple Round-up: March 29, 2013

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How can you measure the impact of social change videos? Start by learning from the takeaways from this year’s Media that matters conference.

There have been a few stealth changes to Facebook recently. Did you notice?

We learned a lot about smartphone users this week. Forty-nine percent of the U.S. population uses a smartphone and the average [...]

Vanguard Communications Receives Honorable Mention as PRWeek’s “Small PR Agency of the Year”!

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Vanguard wins Honorable Mention for PRWeek Awards 2013 Small PR Agency of the Year

Vanguardians are celebrating tonight! Vanguard Communications just received an honorable mention as “Small PR Agency of the Year” at the 2013 PRWeek Awards in New York City. President Maria Rodriguez attended the national ceremony — in which Catalyst Public Relations was [...]

Culturally Responsible Classifications in a Socially Conscious Society

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While reading the newspaper yesterday, I came across something that took me, and I’m sure many others, by surprise. The U.S. Census Bureau announced that, after more than a century, they were doing away with the term “Negro,” in favor of the more modern and socially acceptable “black” or “African-American,” in their survey. The [...]

Social Media Week DC: What’s Your Social Media ROO?

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At last week’s Social Media Week DC session, Get Smart! Make Better Social Media Decisions through Analytics, speaker Dan Soschin recognized that there are dozens of platforms for dozens of audiences, and sometimes social change communicators think they need to have accounts on all the top social media platforms to make a difference. Soschin’s solution [...]