{"id":1056,"date":"2012-03-21T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2012-03-21T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:08:48","slug":"connecting-across-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2012\/03\/21\/connecting-across-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting across the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/songprssa201203.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1059\" title=\"songprssa201203\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/songprssa201203.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Throughout my college career, I have been told countless times to network, network, network. It wasn\u2019t any different when I started my spring break in Charlotte, N.C., as the UW-Stevens Point Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter representative at the PRSSA National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is no small matter. PRSSA is the largest pre-professional organization in the world! I was among the top public relations students and leaders in the nation to vote for our national committee, who oversees the organization.<\/p>\n<p>As public relations pre-professionals, we learn to build relationships and, of course, network. Much of the time at National Assembly was spent giving out and collecting business cards. But is that enough?<\/p>\n<p>In my philosophy, you have to do more than just network; you have to connect. According to Mr. Webster, networking is \u201cthe exchange of information or services among individuals, groups or institutions; specifically: the cultivation of productive relationships for employment or business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Connecting is getting to know someone at a more personal level rather than just as a business acquaintance. It is building relationships without expecting to get something in return.<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t just network, connect.<\/p>\n<p>-Song<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/category\/students\/song-x\/\">Song Xiong<\/a> is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in\u00a0dietetics and communication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout my college career, I have been told countless times to network, network, network. It wasn\u2019t any different when I started my spring break in Charlotte, N.C., as the UW-Stevens Point Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter representative at the PRSSA National Assembly. Now this is no small matter. PRSSA is the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51,23],"tags":[261,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}