What We Do : Vitamin T

Vitamin T, A Division of Aquent.

Aquent’s Vitamin T division was created to exclusively meet the unique needs of ad agencies, mid-sized companies and the digital creatives we all love.

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  • We spend our time connecting the best digital creatives in the industry. Sounds like a pretty sweet job, huh? We think so. Even better for you, we’ve been doing this for over 25 years as part of Aquent, so our talent network is unparalleled. We’re proud to say that we personally meet our candidates, have proprietary hands-on assessments, and are great at digging down to what our talent can do – and what they want to do – so that we can make the perfect match for our clients.

    In a nutshell, Vitamin T provides carefully screened freelance designers, developers and copywriters on a freelance and contract-to-hire basis. Sometimes we also provide cookies and milk, just when you need them. (Milk not available in all states and provinces.) Already Aquent Talent? Then we’ve got great news for you.

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The Future of Media

Wherever you turn these days people are talking about how things are becoming “smart.” Smart planets, smart appliances, smart ads… The “cloud” is allowing humanity to attach data to objects and new tools are allowing us to access and interact with that information. RFID, augmented reality, visual search, sub-audial synchronized apps are all examples of […]

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Call the Senate: Protect the Internet

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The US Senate could vote on the Protect IP Act as soon as this week.

So we need you to raise your voice today, and call your Senators with one, simple message: “Protect the Internet as we know it. Oppose the Protect IP Act.”

Making the call is easier than you’d think — and will only take a minute or two. What do you say?

You can click here to use a helpful tool that a partner organization put together allowing you to enter your phone number, see some discussion points, and get patched through directly.

Or you can call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121, tell the person who answers where you live, and he or she will connect you to your senator (you’ll need to call a second time for your other senator).

This is part of a broader coalition effort — including other technology companies and public-interest organizations — and we’re looking to flood the Senate with calls today, to make sure our message is heard loud and clear.

Along with its companion legislation in the House — the Stop Online Piracy Act — the bill would create new cybersecurity risks and jeopardize the basic structure of the internet as we know it, all in the name of a goal that would not be achieved.

The chorus against these bills has grown — just on Sunday, the New York Times wrote in an editorial that the bills “overreached” and “[have] serious problems that must be fixed.”

But nothing is certain yet — these bills can be stopped in their current form, if we all raise our voices and make it known that Americans don’t want the internet we know and love to be harmed.

So please call your senators today. Call the switchboard at (202) 224-3121, or use the call tool a partner put together here:

https://donate.mozilla.org/pipa-calls

Thanks so much,

Ben

P.S. — If you’re not in the US, please pass this along to anyone you know who is. We need as many people as possible to raise their voice today.

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The Power of Words

The Power of Words

By Harriet Rubin

Fernando Flores is pissed off. He has had enough of the bullshit. The 55-year-old philosopher, former Chilean minister of finance, former political prisoner under Augusto Pinochet’s rule, has flown halfway around the world, from California to Holland, to transform two executive teams — 32 leaders in all — of a global construction giant. These are people accustomed to building on a grand scale. But right now, building is their problem, not their business: Their world-class reputation for being brilliantly managed, it turns out, consists only of hollow words — words that have little power and less value.

Flores knows about words and how they translate directly into deeds. He knows that talk is never cheap — he often charges more than $1 million for his services, a fee that is linked directly to specific promises of increased revenues and savings. He also knows that talk is the source of these executives’ failure. Their words work against them — which is why they can’t get anything to work for them.

Talk all you want to, Flores says, but if you want to act powerfully, you need to master “speech acts”: language rituals that build trust between colleagues and customers, word practices that open your eyes to new possibilities. Speech acts are powerful because most of the actions that people engage in — in business, in marriage, in parenting — are carried out through conversation. But most people speak without intention; they simply say whatever comes to mind. Speak with intention, and your actions take on new purpose. Speak with power, and you act with power.

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