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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
One of the benefits to this program besides getting an education that directly co-relates to your needs is actually putting it to work. I have been revamping my main networking site –LinkedIn- to map out a useful and reliable pattern outlining my strong and weak ties and then applying what I have learned so far [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is probably the world’s biggest and most enterprising network of business communicators that I know of and am glad to be a part of. One of the great things about this program (MSC) is that we get to experience the communications field in a myriad of ways. Our [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
Last week, I attended an IABC/Chicago luncheon entitled “When Market Forces Demand Change: Evolving the **AlphaGraphics Business Model and Brand” at Maggiano’s fabulous Banquet room on Clark street. It was a two hour networking and presentation event that roughly encased an outline of my MSC studies to date. Presented by industry giant, Liz Brohan, CEO [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
We all heard the major uproar that was sparked by a tiny YouTube video (88,415,215 and counting views) that took up all of 29 minutes of our precious time and sparked a world-wide fiasco famously eclipsed by a naked man running down a street (well that’s all most people remember now!). This story will one day make a [...]
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Tiane Harrison, Class of 2012
Yesterday, I attended a practicum on Organizational Design. While topically relevant, practicums can be difficult for me mainly because those weeks we have class on Friday and Saturday with little time for anything else. But Professor Matthew Locsin, Associate Partner at Dobin, Inc. was engaging, humorous and thought provoking, providing an analysis of the U.S. [...]