Claire Dunn is a digital producer at Spredfast, helping organizations build meaningful relationships with their audiences through social media engagement. She helped conceptualize and develop the first ATX Hack for Change event and then served as lead organizer in the hackathon’s second year. Dunn has spent more than seven years in the tech and higher education industries […]
The landscape for consuming entertainment media has changed. Traditionally, we have been enamored with Hollywood movie starts and actors or actresses on popular television shows, but YouTube and Vine are providing a more unique and relatable form of entertainment media. Rae Votta, one of the panelists for “YouTube Grows Up: Community and Culture,” writes for […]
When talking with Dr. Chirag Patel it is easy to see how far computer technology has come. What he and many others are trying to do is pierce a veil of isolation. Patel’s panel, Your Life in Big Data: Drugs and the Environment, will cover that attempt. Despite our propensity for pattern recognition, it is […]
Many Most of us are aware…we use our phones too much. And we’re similarly aware of the most popular past time within this overuse – checking in with social media. Experts have already postulated some of the consequences of this constant social media barrage. We’re sleeping less, because our glowing screens are keeping our brains awake. […]
Welcome to the world of ‘weird brand Twitter,’ where Hamburger Helper is bae, DiGiorno Pizza is your Valentine and JCPenney forces you to question their sobriety. It’s funny, but is it working for these brands? Chapin Clark, EVP, managing director and copywriter for R/GA, and Katie Notopoulos, senior editor for Buzzfeed, join together to discuss […]
Let’s Talk About Beer: Beer. Beer isn’t a scary word. It’s happy, it’s casual—everybody loves beer. (OK, I’m sure plenty of people don’t love beer, but just go with it.) What about lager, though? Stout? Porter or IPA? Many people are intimidated by those words and the craft beer culture in general. But do they […]
There is no doubt that we are an instant gratification society, especially with our media and the development of mobile devices. With social media channels such as YouTube, Vine and Twitter, we are able to gain information instantaneously, leading panelist Julie Barrios to believe an underlying condition is being developed with our media and technology […]