Ryan Lytle

This past Saturday I spent the day at Ohio University‘s E. W. Scripps School of Journalism “Alumni Bootcamp.” In January, I had the pleasure of presenting “Personal Branding: What the @#$% Does That Mean” during the j-school’s Senior Saturday events. During that event, I discussed best practices for building a brand using social tools to [...]

My newest piece for U.S. News & World Report looks into the effects of social media and texting in the high school classroom. For this piece, I spoke with a high school student, a high school teacher, college professors and a dean of college admissions to get their thoughts on this problem. It was interesting [...]

2010 was the most thrilling, amazing, life-changing year I have had in my entire life. From my internship with The Today Show, graduating from Ohio University, my MTV TJ experience and finally landing a job with U.S. News & World Report it has been a year of all highs. With the end of one unforgettable [...]

Would you like to know whether the information you’re posting on Twitter is actually making an impact? Well, according to Mashable, there is an on-going study that will show you whether you’re a Twitter stud or slouch. Although there are plenty of ways to gauge your tweet prowess, for example Tweetlevel, this study is unique [...]

Guys! I have never needed you more than I need you now! As a lot of you know, the MTV TJ live finale hits MTV at 10 PM EST tomorrow (Sunday) night. It will literally run from 10-11 and it will decide the FIRST-EVER MTV Twitter Jockey. Now, I’m obviously hoping it is me BUT I need your help to get there.