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A Goodbye to Social Media Principles

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The time is finally upon us, friends. It is time for the last blog post of the spring semester. I truly never thought this day would come. I'll be honest with you, these blog posts were not easy for me. I was just thrust into the world of AP format, and never really learned how it worked. Between floundering while trying to figure out a completely new styling format and having to come up with creative things to write about that fit into the three weekly categories, I always found the blogging assignments looming over me. One thing I will take away from this class is learning to insert my own personal style into my assignments. I just let myself have fun with the assignments and found others enjoying them as well. My favorite projects were the live tweet and video assignments. I had a blast tweeting nonstop at Ohio Northern University's Fearless Shenanygans performance, and I know the cast members enjoyed reading all the funny things they said during the night because they sho
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Final Critique of Katie Paine's "Measure What Matters"

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Well this week we finished up reading Katie Paine's book, "Measure What Matters." Through reading the book, we gained insights on why it is important to measure and how to get started with measuring by asking ourselves a lovely set of ten questions to help us with the research step of RPIE (research, planning, implementation, evaluation). I noticed how a lot of what Paine wrote about connected to public relations work in a broader sense than just checking social media. Starting in Chapter 3, we started learning about how to measure. Paine broke down seven simple steps to "the perfect measurement program," and even included an extra chapter to make sure we understood how to choose the right tool for measurement. Once we got into Chapter 5, the book more or less started getting slightly redundant. Paine took the time to relate the seven steps of measurement (in one version or another) to so many different situations like measuring public relations in a social
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A Reflection on My Time Before, During and After "Sweet Charity"

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Goodbye my sweet libretto binder The Ohio Northern Theatre Arts Department closed the spring musical, "Sweet Charity," on April 22. The show ran for a total of five performances. I just wanted to take time in this week's "ONU Blog Post" to reflect on being able to play a part in the wonderful world of "Sweet Charity." First, I'd like to share how thankful I am to have been able to be involved at all. I have thanked my director, Courtney Kattengal, over and over for allowing me to be a part of the show. When I saw the cast list at the end of last semester I was really confused because "Sweet Charity," is famous for being a dance heavy show and I have felt like a weak dancer for such a long time. When I first came to Ohio Northern University (ONU), I was not ready for the slap in the face that dance training brought me. I literally couldn't touch my toes and would cry after some of my ballet classes because I felt like I was in way
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What Is the "Sweet Charity" Cast's Favorite Part About Two Show Days?

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Saturday, April 21 marked the two show day of Ohio Northern University's production of "Sweet Charity." Two show days are infamous among actors because they truly suck the feeling of life from all of the cast and crew involved. This production is especially draining because the ensemble and a lot of the leads are constantly singing, acting, dancing, changing costumes or moving set pieces. Our productions Oscar Lindquist, played by Riley Alexander, still has control of promoting the show through social media. In honor of the two show day, he decided to take to Instagram's story feature to ask cast and crew members what their favorite part of having two show days is during intermission of the first show. He posted the stories on the Freed Center for the Performing Arts' Instagram channel, @freedcenter. The amazingly creative responses can be seen below and costume credits go to Ameera Ansari: Hallie Heffernan, the titular Charity Hope Valentine, answered Al
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Rebuilding Trust With Katie Paine

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After reading Chapter 11 of Katie Paine's "Measure What Matters," which dealt with rebuilding reputations after crises occur within a corporation, I found the topic of trust really sparked my interest. Trust is a concept that floods every aspect of our lives, and one that is especially prevalent in the topic of public relations. I really liked how Paine outlined trust in in the chapter by breaking it down in a few different ways. First, she broke it down into three dimensions of trust that are measurable by the Grunig Relationship Survey. The three dimensions and their descriptions are below: Competence - the belief that an organization has the ability to do what it says it will do Integrity - the belief that an organization is fair and just Dependability/Reliability - the belief that and organization will do what it says it will do consistently and dependably This is a good way to define trust in a very general sense. Paine then breaks it down a little f
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Promoting Ohio Northern University's "Sweet Charity"

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April 16 was the first day of tech week rehearsals with costumes. Things did not go very smoothly for me with this rehearsal because I have nine different costumes and ten different scene changes. This might not sound too bad, but these costumes are pretty elaborate and the set pieces are gigantic platforms which needed hydraulic brakes to make sure they stayed in place while people stood, swung on or danced on them. As you can imagine these platforms are pretty heavy which is not fun when you have ten very fast scene changes which often occur at the same time as my costume changes. Long story short I ended up crying onstage just a little bit because I was trying my best to get everything done that I needed too as fast as possible, but I still messed up my scene/costume change going into the famous "Rich Man's Frug," dance number in the show. Many other members of the ensemble had similar problems as this show is massive, but we are all got through it together. To show ju
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What Is Tech Week Like at Ohio Northern University?

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Countdown clock from the Freed Center's Scene Shop. They like to have fun and make jokes there as you can see here. Ohio Northern University's (ONU) Theatre Arts Department entered the dreaded "tech week" for their production of "Sweet Charity" on April 13. This musical follows a hopelessly romantic dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, in New York City in the 1960s on her quest to find love and a life better than the one she has. Junior, Hallie Heffernan, has done an incredible job on this role and it is not one you are going to want to miss. However, this blog post isn't about the show or the cast. This blog post is here to explain what a tech week is like for students. faculty and guest artists at ONU. Many of you may not know what this tech week is, or why it is dreaded, but fear not because I am here to explain. Tech week occurs the week before a show opens and is time for the cast to move into the actual performance space and fina
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