OU Digital Initiative - personal interest piece

A nice personal interest spin on the conference I spoke at last week.

Her name is Liz Maute, and she’s a 21-year-old senior at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, where I’m teaching this fall.

She says she’s an advertising major, but that’s just a ruse. What she really is is a budding entrepreneur who’s learning how to use interactive digital technology to help her realize her dreams and ambitions, make a decent living and ultimately help revive New Orleans’ Katrina-battered economy.

I met Liz last Saturday at the end of “Digital Initiative” week organized by Gaylord College Dean Joe Foote that brought ten top people from the fields of journalism, public relations and advertising to the OU campus to explain to students how they can build a career by mastering the complex tools and techniques of the Internet.

read the rest here - I asked them to keep my name out of the piece, didn’t want the press.