Websites and Research and Interviews… Oh My!

Websites and Research and Interviews… Oh My!

By Alaine Bailey-Bentley Campus

Coming into the office feels like a routine that I had been doing for months now. I have been fortunate enough to be asked to perform many tasks like writing/creating newsletters through MailChimp  (example can be found at the bottom of this blog post), helping write media releases and writing introductions and more questions for Barbara’s talk show HelloDarlink.

This week when I arrived to the office on Monday Stacey asked me to brainstorm ideas for the Pet Show Expo website that Momentum Forum Event manages. She wanted to update the website from last year as it seemed a bit too basic and wasn't very informative or eye-catching at first glance.  I looked at different competitors such as the Melbourne Pet & Animal Expo and Sydney Dog Lovers Show websites to compare the differences. I also looked on the Momentum Forum website to see what features and layouts they had in place. After analyzing them I suggested a different arrangement for the sponsors and different tabs to be included to provide information to user and surprisingly my suggestions were taken on board willingly. Stacey then drew up a mockup layout on paper and had to relay it to their website designers they work with.

Unfortunately after that I was back to researching sponsorship contacts for the rest of the day. I am running out of ideas of how many different ways there are to search for different companies. Stacey taught me a clever way to find new ones though. It is to pick a street that is situated in the CBD or in a busy area with many companies on it. You then Google this street on Google Maps and then a whole list of companies will come up that are on that particular street. It was definitely an interesting and effective way to find new companies.

On Tuesday Barbara came into the office very happy, as she had managed to secure an interview with Doctor Ehsan Jadoon, a cosmetic surgeon at Medaesthetics. He will be the surgeon performing on Robbie Anstruther-Burson. I was asked to create another set of interview questions for Barbara to ask Ehsan as well as to write an introduction for both Robbie and Ehsans’ interviews. This took up most of the day as it involved finding and including real statistics into the interview that would interest and shock her audience. My draft was then thoroughly edited by her husband Douglas and Stacey. Although there were many changes made (I understand I still have a long way to go to improve my script writing skills) I am still flattered that they trusted me and my work enough to use it. After the final copy was approved it was printed and stuck to cue cards ready for the interview on Thursday.

I normally work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday but Barbara has asked me to come in Thursday instead to help her while she is interviewing Doctor Ehsan Jadoon where her and her camera crew will film it. This interview will then be edited and uploaded onto her YouTube channel HelloDarlink. This will be a very interesting and new experience for me, as I will get to be a part of the behind-the-scenes and backstage to a media production. Hopefully all will go well! I am told I will be helping Barbara by holding up the cue cards, making sure she doesn't miss anything important when interviewing her guest and of course making sure she remains looking flawless.

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