By Hannah Fleishman. Hannah is an intern at MITX. She is a rising senior at Emerson College and grew up in Italy, Germany, and Egypt. Hannah is passionate about traveling, writing, marketing, and smiling.

Emerson College hosted a social media panel last year. I arrived excited and left with mild anxiety. One of the panelists suggested that everyone have a blog to show potential employers that you’re passionate about something. I didn’t have a blog, so naturally I just heard “you will never be successful.” I needed to start blogging. I didn’t know what I was going to blog about but I had to think of something, otherwise I was a passionless pit (is that copyright infringement or is it word play?).

My friends all use Tumblr so I created an account, spent too much time picking out a free layout that someone else had designed to express my creativity, and decided this would be a travel blog. Original, I know, just like my layout. But hear me out. I spent 15 years growing up overseas. I travel back to Egypt twice a year and figured I could blog about life as an expat, or post anecdotes on being a third culture kid. Now I could say I dabble in blogging while shamelessly showcasing how worldly I am. I couldn’t believe how easy it all was.

Guest post by Ali Robbins Hyatt. Ali is on the New Growth Platforms team at Avery Dennison, and is a member of the MITX 2010 Future Leaders Group, a group of six individuals who were chosen based on their leadership, spirit, entrepreneurialism, and early impact on the Massachusetts innovation economy. This post is part of our Digital Works: Careers in Digital Marketing, Technology, and Media Series. This series profiles the skills and experiences that make careers in this industry exciting, and provides advice to job seekers from the area’s foremost employers and experts.

Ashlee Clevenger is a Senior Marketing and Communications Specialist at Yankee Group. See her in action on Twitter at @yankeegroup (for business) and @ashleeclev (for pleasure). This post is part of our Digital Works: Careers in Digital Marketing, Technology, and Media Series. This series profiles the skills and experiences that make careers in this industry exciting, and provides advice to job seekers from the area’s foremost employers and experts.

Guest post by Amy Draybuck and Denise Korn, Youth Design. This post is part of our Digital Works: Careers in Digital Marketing, Technology, and Media Series. This series profiles the skills and experiences that make careers in this industry exciting, and provides advice to job seekers from the area’s foremost employers and experts.

Guest post by Lisa Sawyer, User Experience Architect, AMP Agency. This post is part of our Digital Works: Careers in Digital Marketing, Technology, and Media Series. This series profiles the skills and experiences that make careers in this industry exciting, and provides advice to job seekers from the area’s foremost employers and experts.

On Tuesday, January 25th, MITX is hosting a Fireside Chat with Larry Weber, Chairman of the W2 Group and Founder of Weber Shandwick, the world’s largest PR firm, and Nicholas Negroponte, Co-founder and Director of the MIT Media Lab and Founder of One Laptop Per Child. We asked Larry for a sneak peek of what to expect, so check out his debrief below on how the convergence of technology and media has played out in the past, and where it’s going next.

MITX is passionate about connecting our member companies with the next generation of leaders.

In this past quarter, we held our annual Career Combine, a half day event for educating and connecting students and recent grads with open opportunities in Boston.

We always like to take a moment to reflect and evaluate all that has happened over the past quarter.  For our evaluation, we use the following indicators:  Top Deals, Company Buzz Watch, and Job Trends.

I was honored and humbled to be asked by MITX to contribute a quarterly blog post that recaps some of the trending activity happening in Boston's tech community.  So, each quarter we will review the following: