Irvine Animal Care Center

This month, the California office has decided to collect items for the Irvine Animal Care Center! They provide a safe, clean, caring, and enriching environment that meets the high standards of our community and provides the community a resource of trained and knowledgeable staff and volunteers. They also place all adoptable animals into permanent loving [...]

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Orange County Rescue Mission

ASG California has decided to show support in the community every month and help a local organization in Orange County. Last month, the California office collected and donated clothes to a great organization called the Orange County Rescue Mission. The Orange County Rescue Mission provides assistance in the areas of guidance, counseling, education, job training, shelter, food, [...]

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Go green with the KIWI!

I found this device and thought it was a really great idea for monitoring gas consumption. Its a responsible solution to driving efficiently. This device helps lower your carbon footprint and the Kiwi shows you how much money on gas you saved compared to the last trip you saved with Kiwi installed. Over time, you [...]

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Social Awareness

Interesting thoughts on becoming social media strategists, or realizing that we already are.
http://www.prsa.org/supportfiles/news/viewNews.cfm?pNewsID=842347874

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Financing Forgiveness — It’s got a ring to it.

Great initiative by Hyundai Motor America popped up in the news this week.
The Hyundai Assurance Program offers financing forgiveness. If you purchase a Hyundai and lose your job within one year, you can give it back along with your loan obligation. There are parameters to the program of course, but seems to be a [...]

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Weekly “Must-Read” List – Volume 4

In my normal holiday frenzy to finish all shopping, baking and cheer-spreading in a 48-hour period, I negelected my duties to provide you with another great list of reading.  So here you go and I’ll try for a second list by week’s end as well!

15 Blogs You may have Missed by Amber Naslund at Altitude [...]

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Me? A “Social Media Expert”? Definitely. Maybe.

social media expert, relationship building, PR, media, learning social media

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Farewell 2008…

Well good old 2008 is coming to an end and what a year it has been. Between the economy crisis, the ongoing war, the 2008 Olympics and a historical presidential election– there is a whole lot to look back on!
 
Time magazine created The Top 10 Everything of 2008:
 
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/
 
From the top 10 viral videos to the [...]

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Get Inspired

If you have not heard of this website, it is definitely worth adding to your Reader:
 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/springwise
 
Springwise.com scans the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration, each idea is reported on the site under the a number of  ‘idea databases’ such as Automotive, Eco, Lifestyle, and the list goes on…it’s really great!
 

“Springwise [...]

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Check Your Source

The Internet, blogs, enews are no doubt wonderful tools, but with the desire for real time news and immediate updates – we need to slow down just a tiny bit.   It’s our responsibility to make sure the news we are receiving (or distributing) is correct news, not just news for the sake of reporting on [...]

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