{"id":540,"date":"2012-04-05T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:17:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:17:22","slug":"lauren-com-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2012\/04\/05\/lauren-com-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren: COM Events!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LaurenBeing a COM student gives you so many opportunities that you wouldn\u2019t have at other colleges. Our school is always hosting informative and entertaining specials events, panels, seminars or film screenings on campus, bringing in alums and other business professionals to educate their students! On March 30th<\/sup>, I had the opportunity to attend the \u201cNew Media: What Comes After the Basics\u201d panel, a FREE event open to all BU students and alums. \u00a0It was a truly fantastic experience, despite the fact that the event started at 8:00 in the morning!<\/p>\n

The three panelists at the event, Edward Boches (Chief Innovation Officer at Mullen, @edwardboches), Mike Schneider (SVP Digital Incubator at Allen & Gerritsen, @schneidermike) and Todd Defren (Principal at SHIFT Communication, @tdefren) were unbelievably intelligent, witty and hilarious.\u00a0 They gave those in attendance incredible insight into the ever-evolving world of new media and its role in advertising, marketing and PR.\u00a0 All three men are also extremely successful!\u00a0 Edward Booches created the #BrandBowl, and I was so star struck to be in the same room as him!<\/p>\n

Moderator Steve Quigley (@stevequigley), a beloved Public Relations professor at COM, was also incredibly entertaining with his sharp remarks and stimulating questions.\u00a0 The discussion consisted of everything from trends in the new media industry, to ways to connect with industry professionals, to advice for applying for internships!<\/p>\n

The entire experience was also very interactive!\u00a0 In the days leading up to the panel, COM held a contest on Twitter to see which attendees could come up with the most creative and interesting question to ask the panelists by tweeting with the hashtag #AskBUNM.\u00a0 The winner of the contest was revealed on Friday and received an iPad 3!\u00a0 How cool is that?!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was also a live Twitter stream on the screen behind the panelists, so audience members could see their tweets on the big screen!\u00a0 After the discussion and a question and answer segment, students also had the chance to talk one-on-one with the panelists!\u00a0 What a great way to network with communication specialists!<\/p>\n

The COM Connection has a remarkably long reach, and I am always amazed by the phenomenal and numerous opportunities students have to make connections with industry professionals!\u00a0 This really sets COM apart from many other communication schools!\u00a0 I suggest that students try to take these opportunities and attend as many of these special events as they can!\u00a0 Just another reason why #COMstheBOMB!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a COM student gives you so many opportunities that you wouldn\u2019t have at other colleges. Our school is always hosting informative and entertaining specials events, panels, seminars or film screenings on campus, bringing in alums and other business professionals to educate their students! On March 30th, I had the opportunity to attend the \u201cNew … Continue reading Lauren: COM Events!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7275],"tags":[7769,7767,7768,6375,525,7771,3977,7770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}