This week we talked alumni relations with Martin Sickafoose, the vice president of digital marketing at the Purdue Alumni Association. Martin talks about the different ways Purdue reaches out to their many thousands of alumni and the challenges of communicating to such a large audience. You don’t want to miss this episode.
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It was guaranteed that Jackie and Lougan wouldn’t forget this week’s guest, Jackie Milhans! She works as the manager of research computing team at Northwestern University, and Jackie V. nerds out hard with her about data. She tells Jackie and Lougan all about data simulation, storage, analysis, plus all the departments her team supports.
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Jon McBride works at Brigham Young University as the media relations and social media manager. Since he started at BYU 6 years ago, he has begun to develop a strong and creative social media strategy. In this episode, he explained how he loves that his department is adaptive to the field of communication. Jon tells us about the time he pitched Beyonce’s publicist, and also chats with Lougan and Jackie about his student social media team and their thoughtful Instagram stories on tough campus topics.
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Dave Stockton is the director of student conduct at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. He is originally from the UK, and when he arrived in the US, he learned all about student affairs – something that didn’t exist back home. We talk about his side-project called Prod Duck, notepads he designed to help people be more productive.
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