Like a kid on her birthday, I always get excited about the release of the latest edition of the AP Stylebook. I love searching for new entries to find out how our use of language has evolved. In fact, I still have my very first wire-bound edition from journalism school, and it’s fun to see [...]
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June 7th, 2010 | Tags: AP Stylebook, defriend, editing, Facebook, Great Recession, journalism, journalists, liveblog, mashup, social media, social networking, Twitter, unfriend, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial
Leave a comment | Share: 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 you [...] May 19th, 2010 | Tags: Bing, blogging, communication, Google, InSites, marketing, Online Marketing, online media, online strategy, search engine optimization, SEO, social media, social networking, Vanguard Communications, Yahoo | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Online Marketing
Leave a comment | Share: This guest blog post is by Leah Holmes-Bonilla, a Senior Account Supervisor and the Multicultural Services Manager at Vanguard Communications. Have you ever mused about wanting to live in a world with a generation of self-assured, enthusiastic, forward-thinking and culturally diverse young people? Think no more because they are here. Fifty million 18-to-29-year-olds make up a [...] April 29th, 2010 | Tags: audience research, communication, cultural competency, cultural diversity, Generation Next, hispanics, InSites, linguistic competency, marketing, Millennials, multicultural, Pew Research Center, public relations, social media, social networking, values, Vanguard Communications, young adults, young people, youth | Categories: Advertising & Promotion, Integrated Media Services, Multicultural Outreach, Social Marketing, Strategic Planning
2 comments | Share: My almost-teenager demonstrates what a new study from the Pew Research Center confirms–youth ages 12-17 aren’t using e-mail anymore. Headlines earlier this week focused on the hundreds of texts that teens send daily, but I found their lack of e-mail use even more fascinating. The study showed that 58 percent of teens text, while only 11 percent use e-mail. In fact, more teens are using landlines (33 percent) than e-mail. Is e-mail the new snail [...] April 28th, 2010 | Tags: audience, audience research, cell phones, children, communication, cultural competency, e-mail, InSites, Justin Bieber, landlines, marketing, mobile, Pew, Pew Research Center, PR, public relations, social media, technology, teens, text, texting, Twilight, Vanguard Communications, Washington DC, youth | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Multicultural Outreach, Social Marketing
Leave a comment | Share: Since the close of 2009, digital media analysts have pointed to location-based services as the next phase of social communication. More and more people are migrating toward smart phone technology enabled with GPS - comScore recently reported that 45 million in the U.S. use smart phones - and location-based services are one more way to put these phones to better use. [...] April 14th, 2010 | Tags: advocacy, communication, Facebook, foursquare, grassroots, grassroots organizing, integrated media strategy, online media, Social Marketing, social media, social networking, Twitter | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Online Marketing, Policy Communications, Social Marketing
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