Meet Jacqui McDonald

INTRODUCTION:

Hi, my name is Jacqui! I am a a freshmen at Duquesne with a Public relations and Advertising major and a minor in Music Technology. I am joining DSTV this semester and was a member of the University of Pittsburgh Marching Band. I grew up in Mercer, PA and chose Duquesne to be in the beautiful city of Pittsburgh with more opportunities for what I want to do. I have been interested in anything to do with social media and content creation since middle school. Although I feel like there is a lot that I do understand about social media, I am interested in filling in the gaps of the unknown to ultimately improve my content. the three things that I am excited to learn about are the analytics of content, snapchat content creation, and to learn more about the behind the scenes and what It truly takes to be a content creator.

“If you’re happy doing what you’re doing, then nobody can tell you you’re not successful.”

— Harry Styles

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Something you should know about me is that music and concerts are my lifeline.

I have attended countless of live shows and have gotten the attention of many artists on stage. I have gained followers on some of my social media platforms by live-streaming the shows with one reaching 20k viewers, and posting videos about my experience. I have even gone as far as traveling across the country to see a concert.

My favorite artists include The 1975, Harry Styles, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and many more.

FloRida Jingle Ball 2023

After live streaming my entire Harry Styles concert, one of the viewers made a compilation of all of my ridiculous reactions during the show.

One thing I learned in 2023 is that life is short, live the life that you want to live.

The Most Important Thing I Took Away From This Semester.

Although we learned many valuable things in this course, the one I learned the most from was the tradable links and google analytics. This opened the door to realms of possibility. You could be creating content that you think may be working, but you won’t know exactly what is drawing the attention to your website without these links. You are also able to use the data from google analytics to see what may need changed after seeing things like your bounce rate, time on website, page views, etc.