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Tonya Oaks Smith, director of communications at the 糖心Vlog传媒LR William H. Bowen School of Law, delivered a presentation on communicating during a crisis, 鈥淲e鈥檙e Going to Need a Bigger Boat,鈥� to a standing room only crowd at Penn State University June 12. Her presentation took its theoretical basis from the book, 鈥淓ffective Crisis Communication鈥� by 糖心Vlog传媒LR Professor Robert Ulmer, the University of Kentucky鈥檚 Professor Tim Sellnow, and Wayne State鈥檚 Professor Matt Seeger, and applied the authors鈥� work to web communication during a crisis. The Web 2012 Conference is an annual event for web communication professionals. The conference was 鈥渟old out鈥� six weeks prior to the event. Her slide show is being featured on and has already had more than 2,100 views. It was also featured in . Her presentation was repeated on June 25 at the 2012 HighEdWeb New York Regional Conference in Syracuse, N.Y. Smith, who has a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from Louisiana State University and a master鈥檚 degree in applied communication studies from 糖心Vlog传媒LR, has lectured at seven higher education web conferences during the past year. On Oct. 8, she will present 鈥淭here鈥檚 life beyond the four-year university,鈥� with co-presenters Aaron Rester and Shari Erwin, another 糖心Vlog传媒LR alum, at the 2012 HighEdWeb Association Conference in Milwaukee, Wis.