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Today we have our monthly sponsored post from Jason Bakker, the Director of Marketing at Campus Media Group, the exclusive sponsor of the Ypulse Campus Channel. This is the latest in a monthly series of posts that's part of Campus Media Group's site... Read the rest of this post

Our two volunteer live bloggers, Valerie Kameya and Eric Martinez (with the generous help of Ypulse friend and fan Derek Baird) will be covering the Ypulse Campus Case Study Slam right here Monday morning (see the agenda)…Join the conversation... Read the rest of this post

Today's Ypulse Guest Post is from Cameron Parkins of Creative Commons, a very cool non-profit org that provides free copyright licenses to content owners. Cameron spoke a while back at our College Mashup event and I thought I'd reach out to see his... Read the rest of this post

After each Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup event, we always hear the same bit of feedback from attendees: More case studies! We listened, and this June, we are including more case studies throughout the event as well as a Campus Case Study Slam.... Read the rest of this post

Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is from Liz Funk and gives us a sense of how Liz and her peers who are just getting started in the media industry are feeling about the turmoil happening right now. She also offers some helpful tips for... Read the rest of this post

As America faces its first economic downturn in a decade and news of layoffs continue to pour in from all fronts, the word panic has begun to crop up in conversations around the water cooler. But what about conversations on Gchat (aka the water... Read the rest of this post

SurveyU co-founder Dan Coates kicked things off last week with a research presentation on how and why Obama's effort to galvanize college students was such a phenomenal success [SurveyU was our research sponsor]. Breaking down the campus crowd by... Read the rest of this post

On the eve of this historic election, our friends at SurveyU (a Ypulse advertiser and research sponsor at the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup East) have just released data on college students and early and absentee voting. If anyone is still... Read the rest of this post

As Ypulse approaches its fifth anniversary this spring, we are once again evolving and changing as the business grows. I have been fairly transparent over the years about sharing our plans and asking for feedback. We’ve been hard at work... Read the rest of this post

Yesterday, I posted a link in Essentials about Twitter being the fastest growing social network according to Nielsen. Ypulse reader Stephanie who is in her early twenties and runs Sweet Designs, an online teen magazine, wrote in and said: A few... Read the rest of this post

Tuesday night a received an email via Facebook from a friend from college notifying me that I was tagged in a photo. As many of you on Facebook know, once you have been friended by a college or high school alum, you begin getting more requests from... Read the rest of this post

‘High School Musical 3′ on MySpace (since most of the viewers are over 14, right?) - Club Penguin’s newspaper (doing better than its real world counterparts - kinda funny) (Wired) - Smart girls rock! (new Vanilla Star Jeans ad... Read the rest of this post

Note from Anastasia: I think our comments feature may be buggy on Ypulse Books, but we are giving away three free copies of Kaimira: The Sky Village to the first three commenters who let us know their thoughts on YA sci-fi. You can leave your... Read the rest of this post

Meet Obama's webteam (the folks behind the candidate's successful 2.0 strategy. Plus Trojan and Rolling Stone want to "get it on" at the conventions) (Washington Post, reg. required) - Emotes (cute tween site where "'cyber-beings with human-like... Read the rest of this post

Our friends at Mother Jones magazine want to know what you, Ypulse readers, think about the state of campus activism. They've already discovered some interesting tidbits so far like: - Two thirds of respondents believe that buying organic is... Read the rest of this post

Lauren Conrad joins College Tonight (as their official spokesperson) - Wired weighs in (on The CW's "Gossip Girl" streaming decision) - Nick's iCarly (number one in the UK. Plus "Juno" number one DVD - no surprise) (KidScreen) (Reuters) - Gay... Read the rest of this post

Today's Ypulse Guest Post is from Paloma Vazquez. Paloma is a marketing and advertising industry pro, having spent time on both the agency and client sides (straddling them, really). She's passionate about consumer insights -- observing what people... Read the rest of this post

Friday I posted a link to a Power Point with Spring Break stats from Nielsen and Anheuser- Busch. Ypulse reader Paul emailed with his take with his first point being: "It was sponsored by Anheuser-Busch." He also wrote: The Summary is: College... Read the rest of this post

Ypulse reader Jay sent me some interesting research today from mtvU and the Associated Press (they interviewed over 2,000 18-24 year-old college students). Here are some of the highlights: - 33 percent are feeling somewhat happy about their lives... Read the rest of this post

Spring break. That annual pilgrimage to somewhere sunny for teens and college students that kind of resembles a drunken orgy. I never went to Cancun or Hawaii, but I did go to Panama City one year in high school for spring break. We called Panama... Read the rest of this post

Last night a parent asked how technology was impacting teen reading. Alli has written about this before on Ypulse Books and there have been recent studies that show young people are reading less -- or at least less books. We've also heard lots of... Read the rest of this post

I had so many links today, that I'm breaking them up into three separate posts beginning with the college crowd. First up, College Humor is coming to your iPhone. They've teamed with Quattro Mobile to create a custom site just for the iCrowd. (Media... Read the rest of this post

Newsweek reports that even with the proliferation of campus sex magazines, college students are actually having less sex (thanks Andrea!). The New York Times, reg. required, had a couple campus media related items including a piece on how students... Read the rest of this post

Right now I'm a member of one professional network -- Chicks Who Click -- which is a group of "women in media, creative arts, communications and girls' & women's advocacy." The organization just launched a scholarship that will be awarded to "a... Read the rest of this post

In the launches and relaunches category, Yahoo! launched its lifecasting service Yahoo! Live -- everything I've read about it so far basically says it's still very beta-y (i.e. not too stable) and doesn't really have any stand out features compared... Read the rest of this post