Personal Branding Top 10 Dos and Don’ts

Top 10 Dos and Don’ts of Personal Branding Through the Media Diversity Council’s affiliation with our parent organization, the Texas Diversity Council, our members can attend informal Lunch & Learns about diversity and professional development topics. This week, I just happened to have my iPhone handy and decided to record Earsa Jackson – Partner at […]

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Media Mashups – Cultural Capital

So, I’ve started to give Media Proteges a new glossary term each week for which they are create a media mash up. The first term assigned is Cultural Capital. The standard definition according to Wikipedia: “Cultural capital is the knowledge, experience and or connections one has had through the course of their life that enables […]

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Why We Do Media Xperiments

Public Enemy rappers Chuck D and Flavor Flav. Who do you think deserves a new TV show? Having spent time the classroom as a science teacher and later in the corporate and entertainment worlds, I have wondered about the the idea of “cultural capital”. So much of popular music and content is driven by urban […]

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What’s Next for Media Xperiments

Thanks to all of you who participated in the Industry Tours and the Show Your Reel Contest. We appreciate your hard work! For those of you that qualified as finalists and actually won in a category, we will be following up with you regarding your internship opportunities. Now, as I mentioned before, we cannot guarantee […]

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Entercom Radio Tour

Click here to view all of the photos! On Thursday, March 26, we had the pleasure of touring Entercom Radio. We were greeted by our gracious host Sylvia Hay and were able meet some on air personalities and the voice behind the “1-800-BARTEND” commercials. Entercom Radio owns three stations in the Austin area Magic 95.5, […]

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Small Digital Learning Communities

I think that the Texas Media Diversity’s program “Media Xperiments” and Connally High School, as a Digital Learning Community, is a great example of Creative Collaboration as Leadership in Education. This collaboration sets forth a Vision for Connally’s High School students and its career-related Small Learning Communities Program. The outcomes of this collaboration are based […]

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