Dave Marash Comes to NUI Galway

Tom Murphy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:52:20 +0000

Dave Marash is coming to Galway, and he is going to speak in the Guest Speaker series of talks for the MA in Journalism programme at NUI Galway on 21 September at 12 PM. The location is at the Siobhan McKenna Theatre (link to map) in the Arts Millennium Building of the University. Anyone can come and if they are in the area or if is convenient for them to make a trip to Galway, then they should. They will be in for a treat.

Dave has been one of the leading journalists in American television over a career that has spanned nearly four decades. Here is a clip from one of his more recent shows featuring how his CBS counterpart Barry Petersen is coping with the diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's in his wife Jan.

Click on image for video.

For over sixteen years, Dave worked at ABC News on Nightline, a highly-influential nightly current affairs programme. In his time there, he covered major stories that took him to such places as the Former Yugoslavia, Sudan, Honduras and Northern Ireland. By way of a disclaimer I know this to be true as I accompanied him on some these trips working in my old job as a cameraperson.

Dave Marash attracted considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English (AJE) to become the network’s Washington DC anchor. Due to various ill perceptions of the channel’s output, AJE has no major cable or satellite distribution deal in the United States but it is available on the Web. It was a significant move for such a high profile journalist as Dave Marash. It demonstrates his willingness to engage with the story-telling process as he sees fit and be guided by his own moral compass.

His talk is entitled “The Religion of Journalism: Our God is Reality – What’s There?” Even though he has shared a thought or two with me on the subject, I am as intrigued as anybody else as to how the content is going to play out. I do know that it is going to be erudite, knowledgable, authoritative, and, knowing Dave, probably very entertaining as well.

This talk in the Guest Speaker series is being sponsored by socialmedia.net.

Ted Vickey And Getting The Most Out Of LinkedIn

John Breslin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:49:08 +0000

Ted Vickey with John Breslin, organiser of BlogTalk 2010.

In the final session of BlogTalk 2010, Ted Vickey gave a talk in which he shared insights, tips and tricks for using LinkedIn.

Ted Vickey (NUI Galway) - Social media and LinkedIn for business from DERI, NUI Galway on Vimeo.

A key takeaway was when Ted suggested that using LinkedIn, or any other social platform for that matter, was like using a muscle. It has to be worked: you either use it or you lose it.

Of course, it has to be worked intelligently, which is where the value in the sharing of his expertise became apparent.

Ted believes LinkedIn to be a powerful business tool for connecting people from down the street to around the world. As part of his PhD studies at NUI Galway, he has begun a research project to better understand the perceived benefits of LinkedIn.

If you would like to help him further in this endeavour please take part in his survey which you can access by clicking on this link: http://ht.ly/2wqK3.

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