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GAA Reaches Out With Social Networking, Podcasts

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This year, the Graphic Arts Asso­ci­a­tion is plac­ing a greater empha­sis on con­nect­ing with peo­ple not only within the print indus­try, but new-comers and poten­tial stu­dent recruits. To accom­plish this, the GAA is estab­lish­ing a pres­ence across social media sites such as Face­book and Twit­ter, while launch­ing a brand-new web­site. The new web­site will become a cen­tral hub for its mem­bers, as well as any indus­try lead­ers, stu­dents, or other peo­ple inter­ested in learn­ing more about the GAA’s activ­i­ties; the site will fea­ture pod­casts and talk­casts (pod­casts recorded live, sim­i­lar to a radio talk show), blog posts from mem­bers on cur­rent top­ics, and much more.

Begin­ning in Sep­tem­ber, the GAA will hold monthly events ded­i­cated to some of the hottest top­ics in print and new media. These will cover top­ics rang­ing from graphic design and web devel­op­ment to mar­ket­ing and pho­tog­ra­phy. The events will be pre­sented by enthu­si­as­tic stu­dents, knowl­edge­able pro­fes­sors, and per­haps the occa­sional guest speaker, shar­ing their tips and tricks that GAA mem­bers and oth­ers would like to learn about.

Events will be recorded into pod­casts that can be lis­tened to on our web­site or down­loaded to your iPod or other favorite media device. Stu­dents as well as peo­ple in the print­ing indus­try can lis­ten from any­where, dis­cuss the top­ics on our web­site, and even “call in” to live talk­casts to par­take in the dis­cus­sion live.

The Fer­ris State Uni­ver­sity Graphic Arts Asso­ci­a­tion is a pro­fes­sional stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to help­ing its mem­bers con­nect with the print­ing indus­try, pro­mot­ing Fer­ris State’s print­ing pro­gram and aid­ing the stu­dents in their studies.