Anna's Anecdotes

In my social media class, we are reading "Essentials of Social Media Marketing." This week we read Chapter 2, which is all about developing your personal brand.  Your personal brand is essentially your reputation, and what separates you from your peers. Personal branding is becoming more and more important every day. How you promote yourself on and offline can help interviewers assess who you are and determine if they want to hire you.  One of the first steps in building your personal brand is conducting an audit of your online self. There are many people who have never searched for themselves on the internet, but that is one of the first things potential employers and customers are going to do. The book recommends looking up your name along with your hometown, look at what shows up on the links, photos, etc. From there you can get rid of anything you wouldn't want a future employer to see. Turning personal profiles to private, deactivating old and unused accounts, and de

It's hard to believe that we've only been back for two weeks, it feels like it's been a lifetime. It finally snowed here in Ada on Saturday night, and it is so cold! I spent most of Sunday catching up on Netflix with one of my roommates and went to my boyfriend's house for dinner that night. They have a fireplace in their basement, and it was so cozy down there! Needless to say, I had a great snow day! We had our first track meet on Friday! As per usual I pole vaulted, but I also ran the 60-meter dash this week. For pole vault, I tied my indoor personal best (3.35 meters or 10 feet 11.75 inches) and placed 3rd on attempts. I wasn't super happy with this jump, but we are still coming from a short approach and are on smaller poles. I need to keep reminding myself that higher jumps will come with time! And for the 60-meter dash... I surprised myself a little bit. I ran fast enough to make it to the finals! The last time I ran that race was in high school, and this week

Welcome to my first blog post ☺ My name is Anna, I'm a junior Marketing major and Social Media minor at Ohio Northern University. I am a pole vaulter for the Track & Field team here, and I'm also in a few campus organizations. I just recently picked up the Social Media minor, and that led me to take Principles of Social Media this semester. One of our big assignments in this class is to create and maintain a blog, so you can find me here about twice a week for the next few months posting about life at ONU and our textbook for this course.  This is something totally new for me, and honestly a little bit outside of my comfort zone. I love when I get to be creative, but I generally have a hard time when there's no right or wrong answer to things. However, I think that the only good way to get better at something is to force yourself out of your comfort zone, try your best, and make a few mistakes along the way until you eventually figure things out.  Anyways, a few things