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Live Updates from Netroots Nation

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Vanguard is hitting the road! This week, our very own Brenda Foster and Brandi Horton will join grassroots organizers from around the world at Netroots Nation in San Jose, Calif. On Thursday, they will host an interactive training — Defending Your Life’s Work: Measuring Impact to Evaluate Social Change.

Netroots Nation is an annual conference [...]

Purple Round-up: June 14, 2013

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Do you have what it takes to start your own PR firm? Here’s 5 important things to consider before starting your own PR agency.

Facebook recently announced they will integrate clickable hashtags for users to utilize when posting content.

Source: ABC News-Online

Burger King faces PR mess in razor blade mishap. Can you say “crisis management?”

Is it possible [...]

Purple Round-up: June 7, 2013

Vanguardians joined more than 2,000 walkers at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s 2013 Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk in D.C. on June 1-2. Our team walked 16.4 miles, collected $5,300 to support suicide prevention programs, and raised awareness about suicide and [...]

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 [...]

Purple Round-Up: March 15, 2013

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Last week we learned the sad news about TweetDeck, and now we have to say goodbye to our friend Google Reader.

We think this is a pretty good definition of PR! Source: PR in Your Pajamas Facebook page

By now you’ve probably heard about the new Facebook newsfeed, but what do the changes mean for brands?

This [...]