Mashable Features Beaver Country Day School for Innovative Use of Social Media

  BIGfish client Beaver Country Day School was featured in Mashable today for their innovative use of social media in an article titled, “The Teacher’s Guide to Facebook.” History teacher and tech integration specialist Melissa Alkire said, “In our classes we seek to engage in authentic discussions targeting multiple perspectives, and accessing this through social […]

Yes, College Degrees Are Still Valuable!

NBC’s ‘Today Show’ posed a question this morning that we thought was a no-brainer: Is a college degree still worth the cost? With more than half of recent college graduates currently jobless or underemployed, many are asking whether that valuable piece of paper (also known as a college diploma) is worth the investment. Here at […]

Boston Herald Features Beaver Country Day School for Lemelson-MIT Grant

BIGfish client Beaver Country Day School was featured in today’s Boston Herald for receiving a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam program to build an automated robotic vehicular independence system to help people in wheelchairs with everyday tasks. The team at Beaver was inspired by Ann Bevan Hollos, a wheel-chair bound middle school dean and teacher at Beaver Country […]

gdgt Live in Boston

BIGfish was the media sponsor for this year’s gdgt Live event in Boston, and it was a very successful evening! The event, which was free and open to the public, took place last night from 7-10 pm at Bijou Nightclub & Lounge in downtown Boston, just around the corner from Emerson. The BIGfish team spent […]

Beaver Country Day School Awarded $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Grant

BIGfish client Beaver Country Day School was featured in today’s Mass High Tech for receiving a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam program to build an automated robotic vehicular independence system to help people in wheelchairs with everyday tasks. The team at Beaver was inspired by Ann Bevan Hollos, a wheel-chair bound middle school dean and teacher at […]

Popular Mechanics features LiquidPiston

In addition to being featured in GigaOM today, BIGfish client LiquidPiston was also featured in Popular Mechanics for unveiling its new multi-fuel-capable rotary diesel engine, the X2. The article explains LiquidPiston’s design by describing it as a “Wankel rotary turned on its head.” To read the entire article, click the photo or click here.

GigaOM Features LiquidPiston

BIGfish client LiquidPiston was featured in GigaOM today as it unveiled its new diesel engine, the X2. The X2 engine is smaller, quieter, and more efficient than standard diesel engines and will be available as a beta prototype for outside testing by the first quarter of 2013. To read the entire article, click the photo […]

PC World Features Wrapsol for Protection from Screen Smudging

“Fingerprints everywhere! Are we ready for 4 million dirty Windows 8 touchscreens?” PC World featured the constant battle consumers have with fingerprints on their electronic devices in an article published today. Luckily, innovative screen protectors manufactured by companies like Wrapsol can help prevent your screen from being tarnished with unsightly smudges. Read the full article […]

How Advertising Took Over the Green Monster

Today’s post comes from BIGfish President David Gerzof Richard. This season’s poor performance by the Red Sox provided me countless hours to sit in Fenway’s stands, staring blankly at the Green Monster. As a season ticket holder and a Emerson College marketing professor this experience, in the midst of peanuts, beer, and an occasional Red […]

BostInno Features BIGfish President David Gerzof Richard's #ESM Class

Did you know that BIGfish President David Gerzof Richard doubles as a professor at Emerson? His social media class – known on Twitter as #ESM – is tasked with using social media to connect with a celebrity each semester. Just yesterday, BostInno published a feature on this semester’s class, who is hoping to recruit either […]

Social Media and the Presidential Debates: What to Expect

The 2012 Presidential Debates kick off tonight at 9 p.m. with President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney facing off in Denver. With the debates being broadcast live on C-SPAN, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC — PLUS being live streamed online — it will be hard for anyone with a television […]