posted by Lisa For businesses, the lure of diving into social media can be irresistible – Facebook now has more than 500 million users, and Twitter now tops 200 million. But along with access to those millions of new customers comes the flip side of social media – risk. And because the risk occurs on [...]
Did you know that listening to your iPod at greater than 1/2 of the volume setting can put you at risk for hearing loss? Now, you have something to tell your kids! That’s just a fun fact thrown out there by the folks at All About Hearing, http://allabouthearingmid.com/. Celia “Sally” Reyes (BS CSD ’91, MA [...]
posted by Tania While in the Dallas area a few weeks ago visiting with several of our alums, I had the chance to catch up with Gail Cooksey (BJ ’76 ), owner of Cooksey Communications. The firm focuses on communication consulting and specialize in issues management for professional services firms and retail/hospitality clients. This year [...]
by Lisa Tribute videos? Our very own College of Communication graduate Ryan Yezak (RTF 2009), who has decamped the 40 acres for the West Coast, has a YouTube smash with his send-up of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” MTV.com News describes it as: Sort of the “Citizen Kane” of “Telephone” tribute vids, Yezak — a “filmmaker/blogger” according [...]
Posted by Derek You’re about to see a lot of letters and numbers behind the name of Bette Oliver (BJ ’60, MA ’73, MA ’91, PhD ’97). When you have four degrees to your name, it happens! Bette is a life-long scholar and author. She developed a love of journalism at UT in the 1950s. [...]
Posted by Derek Stephen Parker (BS ADV ’82) has enjoyed a successful career in advertising. The Texas-native worked at New York agencies, won prestigious awards and provided his creative expertise to businesses like AT&T, Finlandia Vodka and American Express. He now runs a freelance creative and design business, Creative Faucet, www.creativefaucet.net. But, creative minds don’t rest. That’s why Stephen [...]
Posted by Derek It was just instinct. When a video clip of Colt McCoy played on the television screen at Via Quadronno in Miami, Suzan McDowell (BS ADV ’87), dropped her fork, flashed the Hook ‘Em Horns sign and started belting out “Texas Fight!” Right in the middle of lunch! I knew I was dealing with [...]
posted by Lisa David Woo (BJ ’76) with Chester. On the bookshelf: “Top Dogs and Their Pets” photography by David Woo and Richard Michael Pruitt, with a forward by Diane Rehm. (November 2009, Parapet Press) Is there anything more revealing than our relationship with our pets? Flip through David Woo’s latest book “Top Dogs”, a [...]
posted by Tania Julie Carruthers, Executive Producer of All My Children, came back to the 40 acres last month to speak with RTF students about her production career in the high pressure world of television day-time soap operas. She hadn’t been back to UT in quite some, but said that memories of her years at [...]
posted by Lisa What two things go together perfectly? New technology and a University of Texas win over OU at the Dallas Cotton Bowl! Ian Wolfman (BS ’95 CMS), CMO of IMC2 in Dallas, captured this video on his iPhone 3GS at the end of last Saturday’s big game – singing the “Eyes of Texas” [...]
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