March 2nd, 2025 Three teaser “posts” were created on various social media platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn and Threads) in order to promote my upcoming article on Medium.com.  Each post had its own characteristics, making them each suitable for the individual platforms.  To read the full article, please click here. For Instagram, I used a more personal connection to…

February 12th, 2025 All my life I have been told, “keep trying, you’ll get better”.  For a long time, I thought that was just what parents said to their kids so they wouldn’t give up.  I didn’t believe it for a long time.  Sometimes, I still don’t.  I always thought everything had to come out perfect right out of…

When I first started this blog, I was “assigned” it.  Of course, every new post needs to be submitted on Sunday, they need to be a certain length, etc.  But once ICM 501 was finished last fall, I found myself missing writing (or typing) down my thoughts each week.  I grew to enjoy writing each post and it…

Elora Roberts comes all the way from Southern California to attend Quinnipiac University.  The seasons are her favorite part!  She is studying Data Science, with a minor in Math and looking forward to graduating in the spring.  She is one of the few (dare she say only?) non-communications majors currently enrolled in the Interactive Media and Communications graduate…

With a new semester underway, that means a new course, which means a new book to read. For ICM 506, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser is that book.  Only a few chapters have been read thus far, but it seems to be very thought provoking.  While this book was originally published in…