Brent W. Skinner teaches a required undergraduate writing at Boston University's College of Communication, where he received his graduate degree in 1999. His professional background spans recruiting industry research, marketing, public relations, newsletter writing, ghostwriting, and college-level writing instruction.As recruiting research director at Kennedy Information, Skinner compiles reports that explore the executive search and corporate recruiting industries. "RecruitingTrends.com," Kennedy Information's widely-read online resource for the corporate recruiting community, counts him as a regular contributor and as a member of its advisory board.Skinner also writes for Kennedy Information's benchmark publication, "Executive Recruiter News," and, as a presenter for the company, leads webinars throughout the year and speaks to audiences at Executive Search Summit and Recruiting Conference and Expo.Also founder of STETrevisions, a marketing and public relations consultancy, Skinner has written hundreds of press releases and developed collateral that has successfully attracted the attention of key decision-makers in his clients’ target markets. The services Skinner provides have landed his clients in "Career Journal," the "Boston Herald," "The Washington Post," and additional news outlets, including Boston, Massachusetts' FOX News affiliate and others.STETrevisions has provided ghostwriting services to Robert Siciliano, CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com and a widely televised and quoted personal security and identity theft expert. 'Texas Realtor," "SafetyXchange," the "Consumer Financial Services Law Report," and other publications have sought the articles Skinner has written for Siciliano. In a recent vote of confidence for Skinner's ghostwriting, "The Bank Fraud & IT Security Report" (BFITS), a high-end industry newsletter that has published Skinner's contributions for Siciliano since the summer of 2006, invited Siciliano to join its editorial board in May of 2007."The Children’s Writer Guide to 2006" quoted Skinner and others (such as the editor and chief of "Wired") in a story that discussed the importance of blogs to the Web marketing mix. In 2004 and 2005, his byline appeared in "Imagine News Magazine," a publication that covers the film and media industries in New England.As a graduate student, Skinner explored how the source credibility of online environments might affect traditional news media gatekeepers' hold over information. Surprisingly, his research revealed no statistically significant correlation between online sources' perceived credibility and people's propensity to believe posted content, suggesting that traditional news gatekeepers might one day see their influence wane. He notes that blogs and other nontraditional sources of information have since benefited from these attitudes, becoming examples of the profound possibilities.
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