Patrick Powers

Webster University this year partnered with SCVNGR to host a 3-day event to increase participation and enhance the orientation experience. It became more successful than our wildest dreams.

It’s often said but always worth repeating: the key to social media success is to be a human being. Such was the sentiment on Thursday during a panel of social media experts put together by the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University. The panel offered some great insights on how [...]

Webster University’s George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology  is putting together a panel of local experts for a Dec. 2 discussion on social media and how to use it in bettering your business — whether that “business” is in a corporate, entrepreneurial or personal branding environment. The event is free and it’s stocked [...]

Don’t worry, this blog isn’t about to become a job board. However, there’s a certain position now open for which I have a high level of personal investment. Webster University is looking for a Chief Communications Officer and Associate Vice President for Strategic Communications and Marketing. It’s a large title for the person who would [...]

The use of Twitter in higher education has exploded in the past year as more colleges and universities have come to realize the power and reach of this communications tool. UniversitiesAndColleges.org last fall attempted to quantify Twitter use among higher ed institutions but limited its study to those within the Top 100 of the U.S. [...]