The self-playing guitar

During a random search for "ITT Tech" on the Internet, I spotted some unedited test footage that someone had uploaded to their own personal YouTube account with the label "ITT Tech capstone project" but no other details. It looked interesting, so I left a note in the comment field asking them to contact me on our social@itt-tech.edu email account. Sure enough, within a day that person responded and let me know who they were and what ITT Tech location they attended, in the Denver, CO suburb of Aurora.
I then requested that the campus director of the school interview the students on camera, since I could attend in person. I provided them with guidance as to how the interviews should be conducted and the questions to ask. They then sent the footage to me via Federal Express and I processed the clips and used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit and upload the following story to the ITT Tech YouTube page.
Over 3,000 page views for this one story, one of the more popular videos that people have watched on that social media channel. There is also a Part 2 (video interview with the course instructor) and a Part 3 (extra, bonus footage.)
The video: Self-playing Guitar

Here was a YouTube playlist that I created which features four capstone projects (including the self-playing guitar) that I produced and edited. Here is a playlist on YouTube that features the Student Professional Experience videos that I produced and edited.

"Local Celebrity" not a moniker I ever expected

I have always thought myself as a humble person when it came to communications - the result of having been the "thoughtful journalist" who stayed out of the picture, promoting the glory of someone else's story. Then, on this day, that changed, and I appeared in my former newspaper's photo gallery: This is the link to the 14-page photo gallery: They said what?! We found the best tweets from local celebs

I decided to have a little fun with this, as I didn't get a phone call in advance of the reporter's story. So I turned the tables on the reporter with my own Storify of the reaction that resulted from her piece. My Storify on being named a local celebrity. It was quite an enjoyable, if unexpected, day.