Ohio Northern University First Track Meet

The Ohio Northern University track team had a successful first track meet with he girls getting first place and the men getting second place. The women scored 165 points in the meet, the one many events such as, the distance medley relay, 400 meter dash, 500 meter dash, and others. Mount got second in the women's with 157 points. Emily Richards broke the school record in the 500 meter dash with a time of 1:17.26. Maddie Reed, a freshman pole vaulter in her first meet set the tone for her fellow competitors when she landed herself 17th already on the national list. Reed pole vaulted 11-03.00. On the mens side, Mount Union put up a first place score of 171. ONU Men's team scored a total of 150 points to come in second but had many notable athletes. Senior hurdler Robbie Brinkman broke the record with posting a time of 8.62, the previous record was held by senior hurdler Matt Craven with a 8.66. Other key notes from the Men's side of the meet was ONU freshman Avery meadows. In his first meet, has already qualified for all of his three events for the OAC Championship. Coach Maus and Gantt both agreed that the Bears had a successful first meet and are hoping for big things. Make sure to check the Bears out in their next meet next weekend at Gand Valley State University in Michigan.

United Airlines New SVP of Communications

Jim Olson was hired by United Airlines to be the new SVP of communications. Olson's main jobs will be media relations and other jobs in the corporate field. Olson's previous job for the last five years was the VP of global corporate communications at Starbucks. United Airlines began trying to find the best candidate for the job since former VP David Messing retired form the company in October, 2015. This is not Olson's first VP airline job, he also worked for US airways as the VP of corporate communications. Where in that position was head communicator when the plane landed on the Hudson in 2009. United Airlines has big expectations for Olson since he has had many other VP jobs around the same field.

Week 1 Reading

The first thing that I learned is how social media can attack companies and people in harmful ways. On page four of our reading, famous guitarist Dave Carroll had his guitar smashed on a United Airway airplane. He made a song that wrongfully attacked the airlines. The airline got back at them making a video that was about how to pack your guitar. Carroll became a youtube success every day gaining one million views weekly and finished with 8 million on his video of his song. This success gained him tons of publicity from huge television and internet companies such as TMZ, CNN, and others. I have also found out that "Real-Time Marketing and PR Power Law" is basically the law has the power to govern breaking news in real time environment.

Trending Hashtags

#KeepPounding and other hashtags are trending across the United States today on twitter and other social media. Hashtags have been around since August of 2007. The first hashtag ever used was #barcamp. #KeepPounding is about the Carolina Panthers football season. They use the hashtag to get fans on board to watch and support them throughout the rest of their playoff run. Another hashtag that is trending right now is #FaceTimeNash. For those of you who do not know what this is about, Nash Grier is an online sensation that became famous from vines which i follow and his first movie The Outfield Movie. Grier sent a tweet out saying "Rt for a facetime #FaceTimeNash". Now millions and millions of people are trying to convince Grier to facetime them. I hope you have enjoyed a few of the hashtags and hope you research some more to see what they are about!!

Ohio Northern Track and Field Inter-squad Meet

The Orange Orangutans won the first annual Ohio Northern track and field inter-squad meet. There were three teams in the meet, the Orange Orangutans, the White Wombats, and the Black Bears. going into the last race the Men's 4x400 relay the score was Orange team 141, White team 138, Black Bears 134. The orange team won the 4x400 which consisted of Corey Briggs who lead off, Ian McVey who was second, Ian Mckee who was third and Christian Rupe the anchor for the team ran a 3:35.34. The Black team finished second with a time 3:36.19 and the White team finished with a time of 3:42.85. When talking to Rupe after the race about the performance of the team, he said "My team was excellent, I did not know what to expect with how good all three teams were. I feel if we all contributed the way we needed to and it feels good that in my senior year my team was the first winners of the first annual annual inter-squad meet." Robbie Brinkman a 60 meter hurdler tied the school record with a time of 8.66. He tied Matt Craven record who is also on the team this year. These two hope to make the National meet together for their senior years. Make sure you check out your Polar Bears here in the near future, as this Friday they have their first meet. The meet is a split-meet in Alliance, Ohio at Mount Union. There will be live tweeting and stats throughout the meet.