Darlene Jackson

Communication Expert: Health, Music, Tech, & Media

Darlene Jackson is a published writer with many years of experience in digital publishing, advertising, and public relations. Her diverse assignments include stints with Chicago Public Media, Chicago Tribune, and various print and online media and communication outlets. She received her master's degree in Health Communication at Northwestern University. She currently designs diversity programming and advises students in the performing arts at Columbia College Chicago. When she's not doing any of this, you can find her on the 1's & 2's masquerading as the charming and charismatic international DJ, dance music royalty, Lady D.

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Best Colleges
February 18, 2022
The History of the Black Student Union

Acted as subject matter expert for this article written about the important role of the Black Student Union in the college experience for Black students since the 1960s.

Colum
01/06/2022
Branding Yourself in the New Normal

Everywhere you look online, creations are emerging from artists who find themselves with the type of surplus time that only a pandemic can provide. The intentional and inventive ways that people are highlighting their art product, processes, fundraising capabilities, and promotional reach are pouring onto social media by the millisecond.

Colum
01/06/2022
Soft Skills in the Workplace

Darlene Jackson, Creative Industry Liason was interviewed about the importance of soft skills in the workplace. Here's what she shared! What's the one key soft skill for an interviewee to have? Excellent communication abilities - both verbal and written - are an in-demand soft skill for an interviewee to possess.

Medium
12/23/2017
How To Turn Down Unsolicited Medical Advice

By Darlene Jackson Do you ever feel like there's something about revealing yourself to be facing a health issue or crisis that makes your family, friends and even strangers pull out medical degrees you never knew they had?

Medium
12/20/2017
Drug Interactions: Foods That Can Affect Your Meds

By Darlene Jackson Prescription medications often come with instructions on how to take them with or without food. There may be directions that state not to take on an empty stomach, or to eat one hour before taking or wait at least three hours after a meal.

NPR.org
07/07/2010
A Poetic, Heartfelt Love For House Music

First, a poetic take ... I'm the beat in your heart, pulsing with every breath you take. You can feel my percussion long after you have drifted to sleep. I am House Music. I run so deeply within your veins that each time you leave me, you return to me again.

chicagotribune.com
08/21/1997
THEY LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE: DANCE CLUB DIVAS BRING DOWN THE HOUSE

Shaking the perspiration from her cascading tresses, Terisa Griffin saunters over to a table of businessmen. Gripping the microphone between her petite, manicured fingers, she throws her head back and belts the last notes of a ballad. One of the men wipes his brow and nods to his tablemates.

Isi-info
12/16/2015
Solution Guide For A Modern Contact Center

ISI is pleased to announce the release of a new solution guide, "Mission Possible: Modernize Your Contact Center," dedicated to providing organizations with directives needed for modernizing their contact centers. Since many contact centers rely solely on telephony, many contact centers are missing the opportunity to meet and greet their customers on the other channels where participation is thriving.

Isi-info
03/28/2016
Telemedicine and Unified Communications

Telemedicine is the way practitioners leverage Unified Communications (UC) such as voice, video, and IM, to perform patient evaluations and consultations, educate and train, or even perform remote surgery. Think of telemedicine as a bridge that eliminates barriers to care caused by physical impairments or distance.

Isi-info
07/31/2015
Can Your Healthcare Organization Rely on Cisco Jabber IM and Be HIPAA Compliant?

The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets the standards by which health personnel (covered entities) and business associates (parties who may have access) are to deal with patient health information (PHI) which is often times now discussed, transmitted, and even stored electronically, i.e., SMS text, Instant Messa...