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Earth Day 2011: The danger of “eco-friendly” shopping

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Photo courtesy of Stef Thomas on Flickr

Today is Earth Day. Since April 22, 1970, people everywhere have celebrated the Earth and worked together to find ways to protect Mother Nature. But as commercialism has crept into Earth Day celebrations, I have to wonder how “eco-friendly” shopping really is.

Headlines such as Earth Day 2011: [...]

Top Five Most Engaged Brands in Social Media Prove Interaction is a Key to Success

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A recent Mashable.com article listed the top five most engaged brands in social media and provided information about what these companies are doing to drive their success. The top five brands (in order) are: Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Oreo, Skittles and Red Bull.

While all of the brands in the top five are large, successful and well-known [...]

Social Media Safeguards: Protect Yourself as Information Sharing Increases

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This guest post is written by Shelby Benkert, an intern at Vanguard Communications.

Unlike most college students, I tend to shy away from many social media networks. Facebook is my go-to in order to stay in touch with my friends, and I rarely use anything else. I do have a Twitter account, but I have [...]