Last June, John Follaco and I attended a public relations conference in Baltimore that featured national reporters and numerous academic panelists discussing how to get national media for your university. While I must admit I did have daydreams of going down to Baltimore and coming away with a CNN interview, I truly did not think anything more would come of it than some
The blog post you’re reading comes to you courtesy of billions of microscopic electronic components inside your computer and the other computers that form the Internet. In case you were wondering, a single computer microprocessor can pack more than 400 million transistors on a piece of silicon about the size of your thumbnail. Today’s world of PDAs, cell phones, iPods—the whole array of digital
As you know from his post yesterday, because of John’s supreme negotiating skills and covert operations (aka walking to the library), the tiger got its sweater back! Now that the mystery’s over and the sweater has been returned to its owner, what’s going to happen to it? Well, even though the sweater has been safely recovered, it was so badly damaged while being cut off
Yes, that infamous sweater that Brandon has been blogging and writing about for the past few weeks has been returned to its creator. And as our colleague Susan Rosinski says, “It’s about time the good guys won.” But the sweater didn’t get returned until I went through what was, by far, the weirdest afternoon that I have experienced during my brief tenure with University
Let me start by saying I understand these things happen. I’m not upset, and I’m not blaming anyone. After all, nobody got hurt. No tears were shed. But when a local reporter gets the scoop on RIT news before I do, well, you can bet it becomes the source of some concern. All of us at University News congratulate Ashok Rao on his appointment
Last time, I explained why I wanted the capability to record telephone conversations for “Dateline: RIT – The Podcast” newsmaker segments, and why I preferred the phone’s lower audio quality (compared with studio quality) for those segments. But I wanted good telephone audio (not necessarily an oxymoron). The solution for improving audio quality, for phone as well as studio recordings, was twofold. Experimenting with
When I grow up, I want to hang out with the Rockefellers. I was able to do that, sort of, the past few days at the Rockefeller family estate along the Hudson River in Tarrytown, N.Y. I was invited to the Rockefeller estate by PBS’ MacNeil/Lehrer Productions to discuss a special project that RIT has been involved with since 2004. The project is called
In the Nov. 16 issue of News & Events, you’ll notice a photo and caption from the College of Liberal Arts’ public speaking contest (lower left corner, page 2). If you’re like me, you’ll ask yourself, “Haven’t I seen this before?” And the answer is: “Yes.” Several times before, in fact. While the staff of News & Events is always proud to promote the
I was a little perplexed when I walked into the office of Bob Finnerty, RIT chief communications officer, this past June. On his desk, in plain view, sat my resume. I wasn’t quite sure what to think. (If you saw your resume sitting on your boss’s desk, what would you think?) I tend to be somewhat cynical, so my initial thought was, Bob
Having chosen (or, more accurately, settled for) Apple’s GarageBand as the software in which to edit our podcasts, I next needed to pick up some hardware: a microphone or two, mike stands, windscreens (or “pop filters”—the black foam covering the ends of microphones that screens out wind and filters letters that “pop,” such as Ps and Bs), headphones and various audio cables. I also
I'm a strong advocate for any business to stayed tuned in to what's being said about them in the blogging world. It's a kind of customer feedback you wouldn't get in any other way - honest, raw, unfiltered. Some of that feedback isn't necessarily useful - finding out that a group of college guys from somewhere in Pennsylvania stopped at RIT on their
For those of you living on Neptune, I have some news for you: today is Election Day. And, after my last post about a lack of young people reading newspapers, I would be remiss if I didn't use this blogging opportunity to discuss youth voting. Everyone knows the rap on young people: they're unengaged, they're ambivalent, they don't vote. Well, if RIT is a representative
Let’s face it—it can be pretty difficult for many of us mere mortals to get our heads around some of the remarkable research that’s taking place here on campus. One of the neat things about my job is the opportunity to grasp concepts outside of my comfort zone and then relay them to you in a way that makes sense and offers some
In the Nov. 2 issue of News & Events (bottom corner, page 4), you’ll see photos of New York State Assemblymembers Susan John and Joe Morelle. Democrats Morelle and John both visited the same location at RIT in these photos—the newly opened Center for Biosciences Education and Technology. And, both are pictured with students in the Bioprocess Operations certificate program. Is it important to