Media and Faith: Engaging the Culture Conference

We - the Communication Arts Department at Franciscan University of Steubenville - are sponsoring Media and Faith: Engaging the Culture, a communications conference April 4-5, 2008, at our campus. I've been updating the conference website the past several days and recalled an online tool called TagCrowd. I used it to analyze the almost-complete Speakers biography page for the top 25 words used. Here are the results:

arts (10) catholic (41) com (10) communication (15) communications (15) currently (9) editor (13) franciscan (22) international (11) jim (13) lillis (9) media (28) news (16) newspaper (9) ohio (9) podcast (16) press (15) program (8) radio (32) several (11) steubenville (18) television (9) university (41) worked (12) years (13)

created at TagCrowd.com

Check out the conference website to find more details - and join us if you can!

Jim Coyle

Must Be Related to a Class Project

I guess I've been thinking too much about a video project my classes are working on.

I found some old movies with barely legible labels saying people used to prepare mailings this way. It must me some kind of joke. I watched ... all the films again and again ... I must have started dreaming. I woke up sweating - was it all a dream? Will I ever know?

Reports from the Field

We're checking out a web service called Utterz (voice blogging) for use in an upcoming project. They can also handle pictures and video, but for now I'll keep tweaking the voice service.

Jim

Net Neutrality

Save the Internet!

Ad Industry Leaders Calling for Significant Changes

In the latest issue of Fast Company magazine that arrived at my home yesterday, I read an article about ways Publicis Groupe, the world's 4th largest advertising conglomerate, is trying to adapt to the profound changes in advertising, comsumer behavior and society because of connectivity, globalization and other factors.

A leading source of information about the advertising industry, Advertising Age magazine, posted this video on their website today, a short video of an industry leader, the Chief Marketing Office of Kimberly-Clark corporation, calling for major changes in the adversiting industry just as manufacturing industries have to change.

Dr. C

Memories

Remember this from the '80s?

Jim