Marion Barry Dead another DUPE. Scholarships for college. Scholarships for college. Is Second Life Converting Visitors into Residents? The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports.
These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies. Blended Learning. Kapor & NewSchools-Backed Mytonomy Wants To Bring Crowdsourced College Counseling To The Masses.
At the end of 2010, Vinay Bhargava decided to leave Google — not a decision he made lightly after spending seven-plus years in Mountain View and Washington D.C.
But the decision became clear after talking to a group of students at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia. The students helped him realize that, in spite of the fact that nearly 26 percent of students hire an independent counselor to help with the college search, the resources for college-bound high school students are few and far between — especially ones that cater to those who are the first in their family to go to college. So Bhargava teamed up with Sean Burke, a counselor at Thomas Jefferson High School, to co-found Mytonomy, an alumni-powered college counseling service that aims to help high school students prepare for college and get exposure to the issues and culture at their institutions of choice. For more, find Mytonomy at home here.
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