CommDev.OU

Official Twitter Account of Ohio University’s Communication and Development Studies

[OU Media School @OU_MDIA]

🎓 Huge congrats to our amazing MDIA grads!
Your creativity, drive, and heart will take you far.
💚 From all of us at #ScrippsCollege — we’re cheering you on!

🎥 Watch our video message to you!

#MDIA #ClassOf2025 #OhioUniversity #Graduation

[OHIO Scripps College @ScrippsOU]

Take time to unwind and relax this week, Bobcats! Happy Spring Break ☀️

University offices remain open. Classes resume on Monday, March 17.

[CommDev.OU @oucommdev]

Newly elected #CommDev Executives for 2025-26 get ready to lead and make an impact.
🌟 President - Emmanuel Mansah
🌟 Vice President - Temir Kalbaev
🌟 General Secretary - Joy Talemwa
🌟 Social Media Manager - Kaung Latt

[E.W. Scripps School of Journalism @scrippsjschool]

Angie Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network, discusses how the IFCN is helping journalists around the world. She will be joined by Dulamkhorloo Baatar, founder of NEST Mongolia.

To attend virtually: https://t.co/8ctYAaTWyD

[CommDev.OU @oucommdev]

As we welcome our new class of students, this is what first-year students mean to us:

#Discovering talents, forging friendships, and making memories 💯💪😊. #ProudluCommDevers

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

#MotivationalMonday

Last week, helped host a visiting scholar Dr. @Arvind Singhal for a two-day workshop on Positive Deviance. At its heart, Positive Deviance invites people to flip the script by asking "what is working here?" and including diverse voices in the conversation.

[CommDev.OU @oucommdev]

The session promises to be an interactive exploration of how #unconventional methods can lead to extraordinary #outcomes in community and organizational settings. See you tomorrow.
#PositiveDevience #ProudlyCommDevers

[CommDev.OU @oucommdev]

#HappeningTomorrow 🔥
Join us for our transformative workshop on "Positive Deviance Approach: A Case for Addressing Social, Organization, & Behavioral Change Problems from Inside-Out."

[CommDev.OU @oucommdev]

We're excited to host Dr. @Arvind Singhal, a pioneer in the field, who will guide us through the principles and real-world applications of Positive Deviance.
Date: August 13-14
Time: 9:30 am to 5:00 pm in Athens, Ohio.
Location: Tupper Hall 204, Ohio University

[OHIO Scripps College @ScrippsOU]

.@woub internships don’t stop during summer. ☀️📺

Fifteen total @ohiou students took full advantage of the opportunity to gain hands-on professional media training for 11 weeks this summer.

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/IaXO1nq6vi

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

#MotivationalMonday

Lean in and learn more with Dr. Jody Koenig Kellas from University of Nebraska Lincoln featured on Defining Moments Podcast: Conversations About Health And Healing:

https://t.co/L7XS7n9CFj

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Thank you to everyone who made the Southern Ohio Copperheads @TurnItGoldHQ with Passion game presented by Precision Imprint one that will not be forgotten. The institute's desire for all: flourishing amidst hardship & the courage to shift structures & forces that create hardship

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Our team has been in the field at passion work studio as part of our funded partnership with the Sugar Bush Foundation

How does the studio grow a creative economy? Foster inclusive communities? Cultivate collaborations? Stay tuned as we answer these questions in story form.

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Ella Spremulli, an undergraduate student in the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College, is interning with the @BGStorytelling & @PWStudio.

Ella is fine-tuning her content creation skills in visual & verbal storytelling while amplifying the studio’s mission, artists, & projects.

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Our team gathered today at the office to look into the world of #LogoDesign for our exciting 3C Project. We shared ideas, explored concepts, & refined our vision.

We're one step closer to bringing our brand to life. Stay tuned for the big reveal. #StorytellingMatters #3CProject

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Emergent technologies offer innovative ways for storytellers to transport audiences into settings. As we craft narratives about Southeastern Appalachian Ohio, drone footage captures cinematic vistas of the region.

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

There are so many reasons to be grateful today. 🙏

If you are reading this post, you are one of those reasons. 💖

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Storytelling can turn wounds into wisdom, what Kenneth Burke might call “equipment for living.”

What is a lesson you took a long time to learn?

#MotivationalMonday #StorytellingMattets

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Storytelling is central to brave space-making insofar as it disrupts restrictive narratives and refigures the shared conditions of our lives.

Want to learn more? Check out the recent volume edited by Dr. Brittany Peterson & Co-Director Dr. Lynn M. Harter: https://t.co/6rmobyv8Qe

[BGStorytelling @BGStorytelling]

Summer of Kindness is in full bloom.

Our Operation Hummingbird campaign continues to spread love & positivity all around campus with #MindfulActOfKindness.

Meet some of the amazing students who shared their stories with us this week. #OperationHummingbird #StorytellingMatters