Communications Alumni Network
A blog for the global network of Northeastern organizational communicators
What did I do on my summer vacation? Create a virtual public relations and marketing agency, Husky Communications!
Many of us may recall the ‘what did I do on my summer vacation’ essay question at the beginning of the school year. For 17 graduate students in our Digital Media and Corporate and Organizational Communication programs, the summer break was an opportunity to do...
Northeastern’s Virtual PR Firm — redefining the term ‘experiential’
We've just finished the first year of our Virtual Public Relations Firm (VPRF). Based on both achievements and feedback from everyone involved, it was a good one that has us planning for bigger and better things as the new school year approaches. Nearly three dozen...
Making a difference through experiential education
For their capstone project, students in the MS in Corporate and Organizational Communication program must engage with a project sponsor to address a communication challenge. Over a 12-week period, students apply a consultative methodology and their communication...
Fears & Failures – Part of the learning process #3 in a Three-Part Series
Can FEAR and FAILURES be part of a learning process? With all that has been happening, this seems to be a good time for the last of my three-part series. As a brief recap from my previous posts, the series started with Why I chose CPS to pursue my dream!, then I...
My journey of resilience & its rewards
Am I Resilient?! Starting in March of 2020, I have been consuming an overwhelming amount of online content in an attempt to track the labyrinth of chaos we are facing in our world today. While writing this piece, there were times that I felt paralyzed and unable to...
Can social network and semantic analysis enhance organizational performance?
Over the past 10 years I have been involved in projects where we used e-mail based social network analysis and a “virtual mirroring process” to let employees learn about their own communication behavior tracked through e-mail analysis. Through a process of open...