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Meet us Mondays: Mackenzie Versaw

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Mackenzie (Mack) Versaw is our Digital Media Manager here at Vanguard Communications. She has been with us just shy of a year, which we will celebrate in July! She is a member of the Integrated Media Services team and the head of our Digital Media Services team.

Mackenzie Versaw giving a presentation about social [...]

New AP Style Word Changes Spur Debate and Applause

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Photo courtesy of Flickr user Fibonacci Blue

On InSites, we’re no stranger to talking about the power of language to evoke perceptions of people and issues positively or negatively. In past posts, we’ve talked about the importance of person-first language, the virtues of culturally- and linguisticly-competent word choice when telling health stories, and even [...]

Meet us Mondays: Kirana Bammarito

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Kirana Bammarito is an assistant account executive who is approaching her two-and-a-half-year anniversary this April! She is a member of our Integrated Media Services team as well as our Multicultural team.

Kirana Bammarito celebrating a friend’s birthday.

When did you know you wanted to work in public relations? In college, I had been an anthropology [...]

Twitter for President

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Obama’s campaign harnessed the power of social media to make social change, and, according to some, changed American politics. As we’ve all followed the election coverage and analyses, the Vanguard team was struck by the campaign’s ability to anticipate its audiences social media dreams and deliver with multimedia content, quirky posts and hashtags, infographics [...]

@VanComm's Top Tweets from Netroots Nation

Vanguard’s team joined the nation’s top digital strategist in Providence, RI from June 7-9, 2012 for www.netrootsnation.org. Check out our #nn12 Storify for links to resources, blog posts, and digital strategies dedicated to communicating for social [...]