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Bilingual Speech Giving: Do's and Don'ts

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Senator Marco Rubio to deliver first bilingual response to the Presidential State of the Union.

Tonight, following President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress, the GOP will make history with their response. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida will deliver the Republican response to the president’s address in both English and Spanish. It [...]

Insights from Netroots Nation: Storytelling Wins the Internet

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Vanguard's Brandi Horton and Rosemari Ochoa stop for a picture with Elizabeth Warren at Netroots Nation in Rhode Island, June 2012.

We’re communicators. We all understand the value of storytelling to motivate people to take action, make change, and improve the world.

On Day 2 of Netroots Nation, storytelling was my meme. The [...]

Why We Crave (and Deserve) Credit

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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 [...]

Why the SOPA Blackout Worked

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Photo courtesy of acf_windy on Flickr

When we first posted about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout protest scheduled for January 23, we had no idea that Wikipedia and Reddit (which had planned a January 18 blackout protest) would persuade other sites to join their effort yesterday. According to the Los Angeles Times, more [...]

Beware: Monday, January 23, the Internet May Go Dark

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Flickr photo courtesy of Redjar

While I may not be able to foresee  the future, my media savvy crystal ball is suggesting that Monday, January 23, 2012, will be a dark day for communicators.

If you haven’t heard the troubling news already, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Paypal and other major Internet mainstays will be staging a “blackout” on January [...]