Friday, October 10, 2014

Big achievement unlocked!

Hello again!

Work has been extremely tiring especially when we're heading towards the end of semester where all our assignments are starting to pile up. 8 hours of sleep doesn't seem to be enough anymore! There were days when I was just fighting to stay awake in front of the screen. Nevertheless, majority of my days at work were productive ones - no doubt, it involved consuming at least 2 cups of coffee. 

Last week I was occupied with compiling survey results and tabulating the data into pie charts. I also held a mini photography class for my colleagues since Identitywa just bought a new camera. Besides those, it's all writing, writing and writing. I had media releases to do, drafting posts for social media content, and even coming up with taglines for the organisation's proposal for car bumper stickers. That's probably the job of a copyrighter, but my communications officer was nice enough to brainstorm together with me. 

I also came up with a proposal to use Twitter hashtags as a strategy to engage with the community, and since my communications officer did not understand how it worked, I wrote up a strategy/proposal document for her. It basically felt like writing a PR plan, except just the strategy section. She was really impressed because she didn't ask me to write one up for her, but because I've been studying this field for 3 years, I felt the need to put information down neatly into a document. It's also more professional. She really liked the idea as she has always wanted to find a way to get the community to engage and communicate with us, and she said she would forward the document to the CEO. And that was honestly a big achievement for me - not just being there to lend a hand with her work, but to also come up with useful and practical ideas that could contribute to the organisation's growth.

Anyway, next week is finally the last week that I'll be interning at Identitywa. I hope I can learn as much as I can during the last few days, and my sleep deprivation won't get in the way of it! Good luck to everyone else!

Denissa Goh
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1 comment:

giN said...

Great to see that you're learning new things!

I have thrown myself into drastic situations that forced me to learn new skills as well. One of the most valuable skills I felt I learnt is image manipulation. Because my company has a very small budget, all graphics are created by this free software called GIMP2. It pretty much works like photoshop and it's really useful!

Now I can create my own graphics easily instead on relying on others to help me! :D