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My "Different" Experience at ONU Social Media Workshop

 One thing about me is that I’m not a big fan of long conferences or seminars but when I have to go for a part of my grade I will be there being present. This recent seminar I was not present or attentive to anything going on to be fully honest. The reason why I wasn’t really focused was due to the time of the seminar. If people know me they would know I'm not a morning person so having to be at an event at 9:30 am definitely a number on my body in terms of my energy. But one of the more basic reasons why I didn’t feel that I was locked in on the seminar was because it had nothing to do with anything I was looking to study. Even though I picked a class for social media it was technically a fill in course because I’m a finance major so this class is really far from what I’m looking to gain with my degree. But even though I didn’t enjoy it that much I at least can talk about some of the things I heard during the seminar.

To start off my day I listened to our keynote speaker Jason Therrien who was the first keynote speaker we had for the event who didn’t graduate from Ohio Northern University. His talk was interesting for me because he got the crowd involved even though people were tired due to the early start. He also talked about the truth about the future trends going out in the world of social media. After that I can’t really tell you about much else because I wasn’t actually listening to what was going on but some of the session I went to was about topics like, Skills to quickly improve your social media presence, how to properly use AI (artificial intelligence) in social media without abusing it, and make meaningful impacts within your social media career. There was one that stuck out to me at the end of the event and it was actually from an alumni of the university who currently works with Abercrombie and fitch’s social media team. The reason why this one stuck out to me was that it came from someone who was in the same position I was in and also that they work at a brand that I am actually familiar with unlike the other speakers.
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