Posted 5/2/12 5:22 pm EST by Caroline Walker in Health, Interview, Social media
Photo: John with Tom Green. (Twitter/@jojomo91)
In October, Shane Burcaw invited us to laugh at his nightmare: living with a progressive, ultimately fatal disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Now, fellow Tumblr-er John, a 20-year-old music-making blogger with SMA-2, shares his perspective on life, fear and dating Taylor Swift. John's invitation? To Cherish Each Day.
Posted 4/26/12 11:23 am EST by Caroline Walker in Election 2012, politics, Social media
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Voting is empowering, we're told. The act gives us power. So just how do you plan to use your power this election year? It's time for a little political Show and Tell ...
Posted 4/25/12 12:06 pm EST by Melissa Jun Rowley in Events, Health, Social media
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Today is World Malaria Day, a day for recognizing the global effort being made to put an end to the deadly disease that kills approximately one million people each year. And to think, the illness spreads like crazy through malaria-infected mosquitoes. Yup, a mosquito can cause THAT MUCH damage.
Posted 4/20/12 8:00 am EST by Caroline Walker in Eco-Friendly, Events, Green, Resources, Social media
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Ah, Earth. Home, Sweet Home. Come Sunday, April 22 aka #EarthDay it's time to show mad love for this planet we live on. We rounded up 6 ways you can represent for #EarthDay simply by sending out a Linkin Park-approved tweet or uploading a photo. Read on!
Posted 4/19/12 11:14 am EST by Becca Frucht in Events, Jobs, Money, politics, Social media
Photo: (Courtesy of Scott Gerber/Young Entrepreneur Council)
#FixYoungAmerica (FYA) started their viral strategy with a talking baby, and after today, another interwebz sensation could be added to the arsenal: Stephen Colbert. All month, FYA’s army of youth activists have been flooding the patriotic comedian’s Twitter feed with messages asking him to join their fight to end youth unemployment, and now they're taking that social media campaign to the streets! Thousands of college students at over 300 campuses in all 50 states will be rallying for the talk show host to hop on the #FYA bandwagon starting at 2 pm ET (11 am for West Coasters) -- so are y'all ready to get rowdy?!
Posted 4/18/12 7:00 pm EST by Danica Davidson in Celebs, Social media
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Warning: Yeah, we know this is old news but we've been so cray cray busy at over here at Act HQ. We just felt weird not addressing it, ya know?
Fans of Lady Gaga normally eat up what the Mother Monster says, but recently she tweeted something about, well, eating, that has caused many fans to go sour.
Posted 4/12/12 11:15 am EST by Caroline Walker in Art, Contests, Events, Social media
Photo: (NYC Department of Cultural Affairs)
If your thoughts have been sounding a little poetic in your head all month and you're struck by an overwhelming impulse to communicate in rhyming couplets ... do not fight the urge. Surrender to your inner iambic pentameter. It's National Poetry Month and the Mayor of NYC, of all people, is urging inner Shakespeares and Silversteins and Angelous and Seusses to shine -- to glow, even, by way of a big fat neon sign overlooking Times Square. The Poetweet contest is on.
Posted 4/11/12 12:15 pm EST by Caroline Walker in Bullying Sucks, School, Social media
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"I don't go to school with a bunch of hateful people, which is what I thought before. I thought I was surrounded by homophobic people that would hate me if they knew."
Posted 4/10/12 11:34 am EST by Jose Iniguez in Contests, Photos, Social media
Photo: (Facebook)
Usually, in selecting your profile photo for Facebook, you go with the latest one in which your tan and pouf showed well. Or maybe you got a good photo of your "Teen Wolf" pal's reaction after you done punk'd him. Or maybe, like us, you crowd-source "Photos of Action" from youth around the globe to spotlight on your Facebook profile! Want yours to be next? Here's how to submit.
Posted 4/5/12 7:10 pm EST by Becca Frucht in Celebs, Events, Social media
Photo: (YouTube/InvisibleChildren)
When your cat meme goes viral, the media doesn’t generally hound you for facts about how you cast the lead felines or why they are so pants-crappin’ cute or who paid for their tiny spacesuits. But when a popular nonprofit makes a 30 minute video about a gruesome African warlord who kidnaps children to force them into his rebel army as soldiers or sex slaves -- and the film has been viewed over 104 million times-- it’s a whole other kitten caboodle. (Okay, extended lolcat metaphor over.)
