Kathleen Hessert is the Founder and CEO of Buzz Manager and Sports Media Challenge, a social media consulting and online monitoring and measuring company. Hessert wowed the crowd and panel at “Sports Media: The Beat Goes Gone?” with key advice for how athletes, coaches and teams must create their own brand utilzing tools like social […]
Aron Pilhofer, The New York Times Interactive editor talked with me about the importance of teaching data journalism in schools, as well as how imperative it is for students to utilize social media. He emphasized that students need to take initiative in developing skills and that excelling at one thing is key in journalism today. […]
The first thoughts that might come to mind could be “Girl Power” and feminists, yet contribution, helping and aiding the personal growth of others more appropriately describes Tech Superwomen: Mentors and Mentees, FTW. Mentorship conjured a number of different ideals and definitions for panelists. While there are many ways to find a mentor within any […]
Jane McGonigal not only has a PhD, but she creates games that improve people’s lives! On top of that, she’s the New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.
Latina bloggers have been successful, but the Latina perception still needs work.
Every time we type our name, birthday, address, favorite color, or so on into another pesky field, we don’t ponder its future or how it will be used. Signing up for a website? A joke a day? Ordering something from a sketchy looking site? We take these “free” services for granted and up until recently […]
Science journalist and SXSW Interactive presenter Christie Nicholson says panelists should ask themselves two questions about their topics: “Why should people care?” and “Why should people care now?” She hopes people will care about her panel, “U.S. Military’s Mad Science Revealed.” In her proposal she writes, “For more than 50 years the mad scientists at […]