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Meet us Mondays: Maria Enie
Maria Enie is a Senior Account Executive here at Vanguard, and she has been with the company a few weeks shy of six years! Maria Enie at Machu Picchu. When did you know you wanted to work in public...
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Crisis Management? Be Human!
I am often asked how communications can be used to “spin” a crisis. The truth is that it can’t. Often we communicators remind those we counsel that the best reaction in a crisis is to be your own best...
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Meet us Mondays: Jo Ann Antoine
Jo Ann Antoine is a Senior Graphic Designer at Vanguard. She has been with the company a little over three years. Jo Ann Antoine When did you know you wanted to work in public relations? After being...
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Meet us Mondays: Ryan Parks
Ryan Parks is a Senior Account Manager here at Vanguard. He has been with us for almost 12 years! Ryan Parks swimming with his daughter in Jamaica. When did you know you wanted to work in public...
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Meet us Mondays: Matt Forke
Matt Forke is an Account Supervisor here at Vanguard who has been with us for a little more than two years. Matt Forke with Katie. When did you know you wanted to work in public relations? After I...
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Meet us Mondays: Cody Mooneyhan
Cody and Tony Horton, creator of P90X, after a workout at the National Press Club. Cody Mooneyhan is an Editorial Associate here at Vanguard. He has been with the company for 12 years! When did you...
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“Zealot” Author Offers Interviewing Lessons in Recent Fox News Interview
Since BuzzFeed asked whether this was the most embarrassing interview ever, media aficionados can’t stop talking about Fox News Lauren Green’s controversial interview with Reza Aslan, author of the...
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Bridging the Generational Divide with Words
Back in the dark ages of the early 1990s, when I was still fairly new to the business world, a book by Roger Axtell debuted to much acclaim. “Do’s and Taboos Around the World” advised business leaders...
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In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela, Expert Forgiveness Communicator
When anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 after serving more than 25 years in solitary confinement, no one expected him to be a champion of forgiveness. However,...
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Purple Round-Up: December 6, 2013
While Pinterest launched ‘Place Pins’ to help pinners plan their trips and Google+ modernized telethons with charity Hangout-a-thon on #GivingTuesday, Vanguard was busy this week too. We celebrated...
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Not Much for Browsing
I like to tell people that I have had few jobs in my life: the Peace Corps, a public interest not for profit lobbying group, a large D.C.-based government contracting company and Vanguard...
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Storytelling, Wanda Alston and a Spring Fling
The Wanda Alston Foundation As social marketers who work with nonprofit organizations, Vanguard has seen time and time again that storytelling builds a closer connection between a group’s mission and...
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The Teddy Bear
“I love you, baby girl.” It’s a refrain in the new Duracell battery ad, a weeper that shows how one little girl deals with her daddy’s deployment and how a battery-operated teddy bear with her...
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Choose Your Own Adventure/Meaning/Inkblot
Patrick Zornow also contributed to this post. 1) Earlier this month, Patrick and Amy learned that the most effective approach to narrative persuasion is through relying entirely on the reader for...
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