I have just completed my 8th day at my Internship at Networking WA. It has been a FULL on week!
Last week I wrote my first media release. When I was being interviewed for the internship, I had told my supervisor that I felt writing was a weakness for me and that I intended on improving my skills through my journey and it turns out - hurrah! I am!
My supervisor liked my media release so much that now I've become her go-to-intern for media releases. I was asked to write media releases for other events the company is holding. They haven't been easy but getting it to the utmost perfected state has made me feel really proud of my work. I've sent the release out to a few community papers and media contacts so I'll keep you all posted if it (fingers crossed) is published.
I worked on my very first event last Sunday, the Helping Hands Community Picnic at Kings Park. This event was held in partnership with Autism West and raised awareness for Autism amongst the community leading up to World Autism Awareness Day. The event was mainly targeted at families so we had lots of kid's activities, I did face-painting and kept lots of the little kiddies happy :)
The main focus of the event was to try and get 110 hand-prints on a canvas, 109 hand-prints in the colour blue and one in red to symbolise the one in 110 individuals being affected by autism.
I got to write the blog post on the Networking WA website about the event, this was exciting as it had my name attached to it! If you have time for a quick read - take a look at www.networkingwa.com.au.
Here are some photos:
The next day, I wrote another media release for another upcoming event and mainly researched a clientele base for attendees. I also completed my very first 'website critical review'. This was really interesting and pretty fun to do. I was so shocked as to how many typo's this company had on their website! It was so strange as this company was in a marketing/business field. It does become surprising how many times organisation's get their website wrong, whether it's the colour scheme, spelling errors or just the general layout. 3 clicks.. It should only ever take 3 clicks to find exactly what you're looking for on a website (something I've learnt from PR Consultancy).
The rest of my day consisted of my admin assistant style duties, printing off event flyers and printing envelopes then stamping them and sending them out. Even the most simple tasks seem fun when you do it with a bunch of fun fellow employees :)
That's all for today folks, I hope you all enjoy the Easter break as much as I do!
- Sarah Awan, Curtin Bentley
2 comments:
Sarah, I felt the exact same when I started my job at Gravy Events & Projects last June! I was TERRIFIED of writing any form of official document (especially because I see how well my fellow Journalism/ PR students write and the difference between us Marketing/PR students and them!)
Now, I am a great deal more confident and write official documents left, right and centre! My boss gives me feedback on it all, makes changes, and through that I have improved my professional writing skills many times over. My boss's praise also gives me huge a confidence boost and with that, I write even better still!
Putting it all into practice and being instructed to prepare such documents time and time again forces you to further these skills and there is no better way to do so in my experience!
Congratualtions on the Autism WA event which looked fantastic and good luck in your future tasks at Networking WA! It looks like it is an exciting place to be interning!
--Sarah
Hi Sarah! Thank you so much! Nice to know that I'm not alone in feeling that way. It's true, positive and constructive feedback really does help improve professional writing. Thanks for commenting and I hope you are still learning exciting new things at Gravy Events & Projects!
Sarah
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