Posted on October 26, 2015, at 6:45 p.m. by Kristen Ellis. If you’ve checked your social sites in the last week or two, chances are you’ve heard of a Florida woman who recently drove home drunk and broadcast a live-stream of the entire affair on Periscope, an up-and-coming app owned by Twitter that allows you […]
Published October 25, 2015, 5:00 p.m. by Tatum Roessler. Upon his first visit to the United States, Pope Francis “broke the Internet.” He dominated everyone’s news feeds with Pope Mobile geo-filters, live tweets, Instagrams and heavy digital media coverage. Thousands of attendees captured the Papal Parades in D.C., New York and Philadelphia, but they are […]
Posted on October 23, 2015, 1:30 p.m. by Taylor Shelnutt. What’s better than a McMuffin and hash browns for breakfast? A McMuffin and hash browns for lunch. And dinner. And maybe a midnight snack. McDonald’s launch of the long-awaited #AllDayBreakfast on Oct. 6 brought shouts of joy from late risers and midday cravers. Fans of […]
Posted on Oct. 22, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. by Hayley Kilgo. Ugh, the dreaded cover letter. Every time you sit down to write one, you probably browse online examples, become stressed and end up wanting to quit before you even start. It’s safe to say cover letters are one of the least favorite tasks to […]
Posted on Oct. 21, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. by Luke Thomas. If someone told you that your entire way of doing things was about to change, you might feel the tendrils of anxiety closing around you faster than you’d like. Stress, after all, is the body’s natural response to change. To add to your worries, […]
Posted on Oct. 21, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. by Mackenzie Lyng. No one would argue that social media is the most powerful driver of consumer culture since the advent of TV. Today there are one billion Facebook users, 560 million Twitter followers and 150 million Instagram posters. With 10 million active business pages on Facebook […]
Posted on October 20, 2015, at 3:30 p.m. by Mackenzie Lyng. “Text me when you get home.” We have all heard this common goodbye, whether hearing it from a friend or saying it ourselves. But what if you could virtually track a friend’s trip home, check if they’re feeling unsafe or threatened, and guarantee that […]
Posted on October 19, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. by Kristen Ellis. Recent research shows that humans are becoming increasingly unable to concentrate on long or wordy pieces of information and, even more problematically, to focus deeply on the information they can consume. Something is happening with the way our brains are wired — that is, […]
Published October 17, 2015, 1:10 p.m. By Sally Immel. Transparency, transparency, transparency: We’ve heard this word a thousand times because it’s the first public relations lesson in the book. Ever since our first PR class, we were taught to always tell the truth — no matter what. In today’s world of open communication through personal […]
Posted on Oct. 14, 2015 at 5 p.m. by Mackenzie Lyng. Like “unlimited” phone data or the right to eat sweets all day because your parents can’t tell you, “No, that’s enough dear,” unlimited vacation days are not as phenomenal as they seem. LinkedIn is the latest company to offer its 6,000 U.S. employees “discretionary […]
