The first two days of Mass Comm Week I’ve already atended more interesting panels and discussions than I had in the last 3 years here at Texas State.
The week started with a talk on entrepreneurial thinking from Chris Perez, CEO of left right media. His qualifications and education were far beyond what any of us Mass Comm Students here will have upon graduation yet he was still very relatable. I enjoyed his talk even though it seemed so scripted it was almost akward at times. He did have several great quotes to share with us.
One that stood out to me was ” Entrepreneurship is a mindset, a platform of habits that allow you to transform your ideas and ambitions to life.”
On tuesday I went to the Media Innovation panel. I found that one to be very inspiring, especially Burt Herman and Trei Bundrett of Storify and Vox Media respectively. They had good advice and real world success/failure stories to share. Trei stressed the importance of building a diverse team in order to ensure the assumptions built into products represent a diverse perspective.