During Dr. Bacon’s PR writing class on Thursday, our class had the opportunity of Skyping with ACU alum, Nathan MacDonald, about his professional career. Nathan currently lives in Seattle, Washington where he is the Marketing manager and handles college relations at Edmonds Community College. Nathan explained to us what it is like to be the marketing and PR professional for the college he works at. Along with explaining his job to us, he discussed the importance of social media in both his career and personal life.
During graduate school, Nathan started a successful blog about his weight loss journey. Nathan has now lost over 100 pounds and continues to post to his blog. Along with keeping up with a successful blog, Nathan keeps up with all his personal social media accounts.
After our skype session with Nathan, Dr. Bacon encouraged our class to follow him on social media and friend him on Facebook. After friending him on Facebook, I discovered that most of Nathan’s posts to his personal account have to do with his career. From Tweeting about Delta Airline’s poor Twitter replies, to posting about MIT’s creative college admissions video, Nathan has a very strong social media presence.
I have learned a lot through Nathan and his social media/ blog accounts. I hope to continue following career related accounts and creative blogs in order to build a strong, professional social media presence.
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