Author’s Note: With the recent police brutality issues escalating to dangerous levels, I have had a lot on my mind regarding the issue. My reaction to such thoughts has always been to write, so I opened up a blank text document and poured my thoughts out in the form of a blog post. 5 pages…
Mobile payment systems are nothing new – contactless payment via NFC technology has been used in a number of retailers since Google Wallet was released in May of 2011. Even before then, MasterCard and Visa had begun implementing their own NFC payment systems – PayPass and payWave, respectively. More recently, in October of 2014, Apple…
In December 2005, I started playing City of Heroes (CoH), a phenomenal MMORPG that I continued playing until the servers shut down in November 2012, almost seven years later. I wasn’t familiar with Public Relations as a career field at the time and decided to go on to college in 2011 to study Journalism. Looking…
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an essential part of modern PR strategy, but the difficulty in recording its return on investment leaves many businesses questioning whether CSR is worth the time, money, and commitment. CSR often fails when companies are suspected of doing it for the attention, with no compassion or real connection with the…
This feature was originally written for Prof. Seele’s COM 331 class at BU Throughout high school and as a student at Boston University, Nick Dougherty had been involved in school and sports, but he wanted to help people. However, like most college students, he also found himself short on time and money, both of which…
It’s that time of year again: in the next few weeks, colleges will start sending out acceptance letters. It’s been over two years since I received mine from Boston University, and to celebrate, here is the essay I submitted with my application. I’m a huge fan of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series (and I highly recommend…
The evolution of social media has not only revolutionized the way we communicate, but also how we approach numerous life tasks. For many industries, one such change involves the use of social media as a popular tool for job searching. For young professionals, networking has long been one of the most effective methods of finding…
With social media now playing a major part in marketing strategy, new ideas have come about to take advantage of the consumer’s ability to speak out online. Such public access by the everyday person has enabled all of us to exert influence in some way on the Internet. Identifying the most influential people has become…
First it was Apple and Google. Now it’s Twitter and Instagram (in part because of its recent acquisition by Facebook). As these companies feud, they don’t just hurt each other; the users are the ones who have to suffer from a cut of features. Once Facebook bought Instagram, Twitter made one of the first steps,…
You’ve probably heard before that “everyone’s on Twitter these days and you should be too,” but didn’t believe it. Well, now it seems to be true; Pope Benedict XVI has just started his own Twitter account. And of all people, you don’t want the Pope getting ahead of you on technological advances. Pope Benedict will…
Upon release of the newest version of Apple’s iOS 6 beta on Monday, users noted the absence of a long-time staple of the iPhone suite of preinstalled apps, YouTube. Since the first iPhone in 2007, the YouTube app has been a permanent fixture and could not be deleted. Some have claimed that this is just…
Who says candy can’t be (relatively) healthy? When a 13 year old from Brookline was told by his parents that his Halloween candy was too unhealthy to eat all of it, he asked himself this question. Taking more initiative than most kids his age, he decided to prove his parents wrong. Sadly, he discovered that…
The Man Behind the Queen An hour before doors open, music can already be heard flooding through Machine nightclub as preppy performers use the dance floor as rehearsal space for their big opening show next week. As rehearsal ends at 9, most of them pack up to go, except…
Visiting a brand new city is exciting; there are plenty of things to do and see, and sometimes you have so little time to do it all. To take full advantage of your time, you have to research and plan in advance to come up with, at the very least, a rough sketch of ideas.…
Due to my lack of time during school to make blog posts, I’ve decided to start posting some of my writing for class assignments. Below is an article written for COM201 about same-sex marriage and Prop. 8. Over the past couple of weeks, steps have been taken in multiple states in the process of legalizing…
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