Public Relations Social Media Summit

All I can say is, "Wow!" University of Wisconsin-Whitewater held the Public Relations and Social Media Summit yesterday (Oct 14th) and it was awesome. Hundreds of students, professors, and PR practitioners were in attendance to listen to a variety of speakers giving their inputs on the social media world.

The speakers I went to were:

• Paula Berg from Southwest Airlines
  
• Sue Spaight of Meyer & Wallis
  
• Colin Hutt from Primum Agency
  
• Jessica of Sway
  
• Andrew Wintheiser of Lightburn
  
• And the panel of Briana Rygg (Independent Consultant), Joyce O'Brien (Laughlin Constable), Abby Gutowski (VisualCV.com), and Jeff Carrigan (Big Shoes Network) as pictured below from left to right. Al Krueger (Comet Branding) also spoke at the panel as well.

I gained a lot of insight from these speakers and want to put their words into action (after, of course, I finish my homework)! But, it was a very inspiring day and I'm glad to have participated.

To get more about me, please connect with me on:

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichelleDaciolas


• Twitter: www.twitter.com/MDaciolas


• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/michelledaciolas


• My website: http://www.michelledtennis.webs.com/
  

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ITA weekend

Hello everyone!

What a looooong weekend for the UWW Tennis Team. We left at 2pm Thursday afternoon to go to St. Paul, MN, for ITA's (a 6 hour car ride). Matches started Friday at 9am and everyone played 2 singles matches and a doubles match. Matches resumed at 9am Saturday morning with everyone playing a minimum of a doubles and a singles match depending on previous wins/losses.

Friday, I played Gina Klein from Carthage and won a close one 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 10-5 in a super tie-break! Soon after that match I played Jenny Marayama from LaCrosse and won 6-3, 6-1. Kalla Schaefer and I then played doubles together and played Erickson/Bryan from Gustavus and won a close match 8-5.

Saturday, I played Frances Leung from Carleton and in another close match, pulled through 6-3, 6-4. In the quarterfinals, I then faced Ali O'Neal from Gustavus and she was on fire. I lost 1-6, 0-6 but at least I got a game. It was a good run for singles. Then for doubles, Kalla and I played Delagardelle/Allen from Coe and won 8-1. After, we played the #1 seeded team of Schmidt/Gudul from Carleton and unfortunately lost 6-8. It was a close match, but all-in-all, a good weekend.

This was me (left) and Megan Kasten doing a little sumo wrestling while hanging in the hotel. Haha

In the world of PR

What a busy day today in the world of PR!!

This morning I went to the Hilton in downtown Milwaukee for a PRSA Luncheon. It was very interesting and featured Irina Sharma as the speaker. Sharma owns her own Public Relations agency in Dubai. Just listening to how she got started and how she grew her business because she knew it would succeed was VERY interesting and inspiring to hear. I also got to meet a whole bunch of people!

Came back to school (reality), played tennis for a couple hours, then went to my PRSSA meeting. I'm hoping we get some great speakers in to talk to our Chapter. Sharma then came to visit our Chapter before giving another speech, this time at the UWW campus.

So it was a very creative day. Time to sit back and watch some of the US Open... :-)

Senior Year

Oh man! Already had 3 tennis matches and 3 classes within the first week of school starting! It feels very VERY strange to be a senior. I don't think it's quite sunk in, yet.

But the tennis team looks like they will have a bunch of good times together! And this seems to be the most chill bunch of roommates in the house :-) So I can tell it's going to be a good year.

Go follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mdaciolas. You can get waaayyy more updates than on here because I tend to forget I have a blog at times. You can also find me on LinkedIn, don't be afraid to introduce yourself! (I'm a people person, no worries).

One last thing: Hope to see you at the PRSA Luncheon in Milwaukee this Wednesday at noon! It should be a good one!

The 2009-2010 UW-Whitewater Women's Tennis Team!!

My new webpage!

Hey guys~

It took me a while, but I finally made it! MY TENNIS WEBPAGE!!

Please feel free to check it out and tell me what you think of it :-)
View: http://www.michelledtennis.webs.com/

Last week of school, so it's time to study for finals. Only 3 more days!!

<3

COUNTDOWNS

Till my 21st bday: 20 days
Till school is over: 19 days
Till Vegas with the tripod: 52 days

What a Weekend...

This weekend felt like it took FOREVER! Our tennis team went to Bourbonnais, IL to play tennis against Carthage and Olivet. We got there the night before, stayed at a hotel, woke up early the next morning only to find out that it was POURING!

We waiting in a car for an hour or so, wandered the local mall, ate some lunch, then finally began our match... only problem was the 30mph winds.

After a loooong day playing matches, finally got back to school. And I just ended up watching "South Park" all night.