Michigan Ross School of Business
Yaffe Center for Persuasive Communication

Workshops

The astonishing growth of the Internet has had an enormous impact in every arena. The Yaffe Center recognizes that impact and is documenting it in an ongoing series of web workshops.

Past presenters have ranged from academics who discussed the ways web sites and their technologies are used to professionals who created web campaigns and interactive sites. Other workshops gave participants hands-on knowledge on how to use some of the biggest and fastest-growing forms of online marketing communication.


Search Engine Workshop

The workshop included speakers from Google, Digitas, and local agency Pure Visibility, and featured a hands-on exercise for Ross students to get experience constructing ad groups and writing keywords and ads for Google's popular AdWords system.

Melanie Mitchell, SVP of Search Strategy for Digitas keynoted the event with stories from her experience with clients which have included Bank of America, Whirlpool, Mars and Kraft. Other speakers included Megan Zlatos of Pure Visibility and Elyse Guilfoyle from Google. Professor Bud Gibson, who teaches a course in search engine marketing at Eastern Michigan University moderated the event. After the morning presentations, students were given a live project to develop search engine ad groups for the United Way of Greater Toledo

Videos From the Workshop:

Search Engine Workshop 1

Search Engine Workshop 2

Search Engine Workshop 3

 


Brownbag Seminar Series

With the goal of bringing together researchers on both the faculty and Doctoral level, the Brown Bag Seminar Series creates a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in such fields as Business, Communications, Health, Psychology, and many other persuasion topics. Click below to view archives from the Brownbag Seminar Series.

> View the Brownbag archives

The Groundbreaking Beetle

Through a groundbreaking advertising campaign and a new design sensibility, the Beetle became a symbol of the 1960’s flower power culture.

Volkswagen Beetle 1967