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Recap: Public Speaking Workshop

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To kick off our first meeting of the semester, post our general interest meeting, GMU SPJ decided to host a public speaking workshop. The goal of this workshop was to give members helpful tips that they could use throughout their courses as well as their career. We created a PowerPoint slide with public speaking tips that was presented by President, Lauryn Cantrell and Vice President, Sydney Cano. Some of Our Tips Use personal stories and try to be humorous/relatable Use appropriate body language DO NOT read off slides It's okay to be nervous and practice makes perfect! Avoid "likes" and "ums" The PowerPoint also included an interactive, mock press conference simulation. Some people acted as journalists and others as communication directors. This way students would have the ability to practice asking questions from a journalistic perspective as well as responding from a PR standpoint. Both involve a particular level of public speaking and the p

Review of GMU SPJ Summer 2017

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While everyone had a fun and successful summer, we are all glad to be back for the 2017-2018 school year and begin working with our SPJ chapter once again! Let's take a look at what our board members have been up to during the summer months. To start the summer off, board members who live in and around the D.C. area were able to attend the "Connecting with Faceless Journalists- Tapping the Social Media News Desk" seminar at the Navy Memorial & Heritage Center on Pennsylvania Avenue. The event was hosted by PRSA , Public Relations Society of America, and our board members had the opportunity to hear from the social media teams of NBC4 Washington, PBS News Hour, Washington Post and US News . GMU SPJ gained a lot of useful information and will be able to pass it along to their members throughout the school year! As individuals, our chapter members accomplished many achievements of their own. Senior Dinanda Pramesti ( Social Media and Public Relations Chair