See your e-mail inbox for the March edition of Dateline: RIT. This month’s e-newsletter features a whopping three “news hits” that appeared within a few days of one another in The Wall Street Journal, along with other news placements. Getting mentioned in WSJ every so often is a huge accomplishment; receiving three mentions in a period of less than two weeks is almost
‘Comings and goings’ on “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast” this week, as RIT experts discuss jobs going overseas . . . and students coming home (and returning to college). RIT public policy professor and job outsourcing expert Ron Hira, author of Outsourcing America, was quoted in two BusinessWeek articles and in The Manufacturer—all on the same day—about issues related to offshore outsourcing. What’s the
On “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast” this week, RIT marketing professors Neil Hair and Gene Fram give their takes on the popular Web site RateMyProfessors.com, where students can anonymously rate professors on qualities such as levels of clarity, “easiness,” helpfulness and, yes, even “hotness” (with red-hot chili pepper icons signifying “hot” professors). Raters may also leave comments, and “smiley” and “frowny” faces indicate overall
Dateline RIT e-newsletter subscribers, Check your e-mail inbox for the February edition of RIT University News Services’ e-newsletter, Dateline: RIT. This month’s issue features news placements from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Christian Science Monitor, Entrepreneur magazine and other publications. Plus, you’ll find links to the most recent episodes of “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast,” campus news highlights from News & Events, and details about
A failing grade for BusinessWeek . . . and lawmakers logging on. On "Dateline: RIT – The Podcast" this week, RIT economics professor Thomas Hopkins gives a lesson in Economics 101 about supply-and-demand price elasticity pertaining to healthcare costs. Dr. Hopkins wrote a letter, appearing in the Jan. 29 edition of BusinessWeek, taking the magazine to task for oversimplifying the issue of healthcare pricing.
This is the long-awaited final segment in a series of Tiger Beat Blog posts on the making of a podcast (specifically, “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast”). First, a refresher. Last time, I described how the purchase of a Marantz PMD660 portable digital recorder helped overcome audio quality challenges. Remaining, though, was the dilemma of how to enhance poor telephone audio quality (remember, I merely
As my New Year’s gift to you, my dear blog readers, podcast aficionados and Vienna Carvalho groupies, I give you a special edition of “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast”: Dateline: RIT – Bloopers & Outtakes This special episode features the funniest bloopers, gaffes, stumbles, #@%* and outtakes so far from season 1 of “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast.” So enjoy laughing along with us—and at
A brief respite (for both of us) this week from “The making of a podcast” to let you know that the latest Dateline: RIT e-newsletter is available now at http://www.rit.edu/~930www/dateline/archive/dateline_dec06.html. The December newsletter includes links to “RIT in the news” stories previously highlighted on “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast,” along with other news story placements (such as Dr. Ron Hira’s recent New York