I didn't post anything this past week because (drum roll please).....
CUPRAP!!!
To be quite brutally honest I have no idea what it stands for, but I can tell you it was the greatest professional conference experience I've ever had. I may be a little bias because it was my first. ;) With that it must be said it was the greatest first conference experience I could have ever had.
The conference is usually held at the Hershey Hotel and there is legitimately chocolate EVERYWHERE. This is just one example of a "typical" dessert:
I can't honestly say all my dress pants fit as well as they did on Wednesday morning.
Any who, I did not say anything about the conference on the blog because I didn't really know what to expect. I knew there would be presentations and I would get the opportunity to talk to people who really know what they're doing in the realm of Higher Education social media, but that's about it.
What I didn't realize is how welcoming, and kind, and enthusiastic everyone was. On thursday I had this "ah-ha" moment of "THESE ARE MY PEOPLE!" There was a presentation from the Department of Education; a session on crisis communication, a presentation from Noel Levitz (an awesome company that does research on prospective college bound high school students.
At this conference tweeting was super encouraged with #cuprap13, which is apparently normal for social media/ other tech savvy enthusiast gatherings. And that was awesome.
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I never once did homework, I just learned at that friends was the greatest. The time and opportunity to just digest as much as I could BECAUSE I WANTED TO LEARN.
I'll talk more about some of the information I learned later, but right now I'm out for a run to try and start to lose some of this chocolate weight.
Have a great morning everyone! :)
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