Allow me to reintroduce myself...

 

Hello and welcome back my fellow bloggers! If you were with me last term, sorry for ghosting you, but as Ross Geller would say, "We were on a break!"

For those of you who are new, I think some introductions are in order! My name is Savannah and I am in the final stretch of the Strategic Communications Graduate Program at Troy University. I attended Auburn University from 2013 to 2017, where I graduated with a degree in Communications. Throughout college, I found that my strengths were communicating with people and building relationships. I worked for the City of Auburn as a Community Programs Coordinator Assistant. In this position, I had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of people in the Auburn community from children all the way to senior adults. At the same time, I also worked for Tigers Unlimited where I was an Executive Suite Ambassador in the stadium on gamedays ensuring that all of the suite holders experienced superb hospitality. These jobs, paired with my studies, confirmed that I was meant to be in the communication field. 

While this blog may be a course assignment, it allows me an opportunity to once again communicate with a wider audience. This is an opportunity I will not take for granted. Throughout this course this term, we will be discussing leadership and media strategies. I will then take these course concepts and readings and relate them to today's world. We are seeing a lot of "world leaders" using marketing strategies to sell their "brand" on social media, and honestly in national news coverage, but they aren't truly interested in leading us as much as they are worried about being seen as "the leader". I hope that made sense. So as we dive into this course, my hope is that we can study these leadership qualities, find them in ourselves, and use media strategically to strengthen our personal positions as leaders and strategic communicators. As always, my goal for this blog is to open the lines of communication and to offer an outlet for comments and feedback that will foster growth in our communication skills. 

As I continue this blogging adventure, I will still be posting weekly. I'm still working on establishing that routine that will include continuing this blog post graduation so stay tuned, but for now you will for sure hear from me every week!

So back to the main question on everyone's mind...why a communications blog? Well, I have always been told that I am a talker. I was moved around elementary classrooms so many times as a child to "prohibit me from talking to my neighbor" that I honestly lost count. Little did my poor teachers know that even they weren't safe when I had a story to tell. This continued on through high school, college, and post-graduate life. I am the person who can meet you and know your whole life story by the time we get through the checkout line at Publix. I am genuinely so interested in how we all communicate. It is absolutely fascinating to me how different everyone's communication style is. It is truly what makes each and every one of us unique. Something I have always been told is to be a great communicator, you should be able to communicate with every single person in a room. From the most educated to the least educated. This is something I actively work to improve upon every single day. So that is my why. My hope in creating this blog is to be able to actively reach every single person in a room with my words. To address concepts and theories in a way that stands out to professors and strategic communication professionals, but to also give enough details that someone who has no communication background at all can understand. By being myself and sharing these course concepts in a way that is relatable, I will hopefully be able to pique the interest of my audience and potentially shift the way that people view the communications field.

So, if you have stumbled upon this blog from another site or a search engine, welcome! Be sure to follow along at https://strategizewithsav.blogspot.com/ for the weekly content. I can't wait to interact with you and hear your thoughts on leadership and media strategies!