Jul 22 2019 13 mins
The Property Pod Tidbits
Pat has taken the recorder with him to Inman Connect in Las Vegas & is grabbing some one-on-one chats with industry professionals.
In this quick chat, Pat discusses Social Media and what platforms vendors should be using with Benjamin Morse (@BenJMorse), current guest lecturer at the University of Las Vegas, former editorial director at MARVEL, & speaker at the Inman conference.
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Benjamin Morse is a visiting lecturer at UNLV’s Greenspun College of Urban Affairs in the Journalism & Media Studies program. He currently teaches classes in Public Relations and Podcasting and has also led courses covering Social Media and Integrated Marketing.
After graduating from Connecticut College in 2004 with an undergraduate degree in English, Morse moved to New York where he pursued a career in the comic book industry. He began working at Marvel Entertainment in 2007 and spent the next decade rising through the ranks from Assistant Editor of Marvel.com to Editorial Director of Digital Media. In addition to writing and editing content for digital use, Morse helped create and host This Week in Marvel, Marvel’s official podcast, and produced the stop motion animated series Marvel Super Heroes: What The—?!
Moving to Las Vegas in 2018, Morse started his new career at UNLV where, in addition to teaching, he helped to found the Rebel Media Group, a professionally guided and student staffed digital media agency. He began attending the graduate program at Greenspun in the fall of 2018 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in media studies.
Morse lives with his wife, daughter, and puppy. In his free time, he still enjoys reading comics and writing or podcasting about them.
(Taken from the Inman Connect website- https://www.inman.com/event/inman-connect-las-vegas-2019/?page=speakers)