Summing up my experience with angelhands

Hello Fellow PR393 Students!

This will be about the final thoughts about my placements with angelhands as this is my last and final post even if I still have 2 weeks of placements left. I can’t believe how fast time has past and I still have much to do before the campaign launches. Though I have learned so much throughout my time here, I believe there are more skills that I can perfect.

In regards to what I have accomplished so far, I have:

1.     Drafted a final corporate email

2.     Drafted a final coverletter

3.     Drafted a final flyer

4.     Design of the poster is completed

5.     Made appointments with past victims to be in the 50K in 50 Days promo youtube video

I believe that on placement I have used all the skills that I’ve learned from Curtin University. From PR techniques to write press releases or even helping out with the monthly newsletter updates for the campaign. I just can’t believe that the semester is already over and time just flew by.

There are 3 more weeks before the campaign’s launch and since I have decided to continue volunteering once a week with angelhands until the campaign ends, I’m sure that I will be able to meet the deadline and that this experience will be immensely rewarding when I decide to find a job after a graduate.

I hope everyone else have enjoyed their placement as much as I do (:

Thank you for reading my last post & good luck on your reports!

Deanna C.

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The Hectic Period...

Hello again fellow PR393 students,

Thus far, my internship with angelhands Inc is starting to get hectic! Since I am basically managing the whole 50K in 50 Days 2012 campaign, there are lots of things I need to get done before the event launches.

For example, some duties would be:

·      Complying a list of potential corporate clients

·      A generic email & thank-you letters for these corporate clients

·      Online media (i.e. facebook updates, youtube promotional video, twitter updates)

·      Include news about campaign in newsletter for angelhands members

·      Press releases

And many other tasks included in a timeline & a campaign brief that I have typed up myself and reviewed by the board members.

Most of all these tasks have to be accomplish before the launch date : November 5, 2012.

As for now, things seem to be going slow but smoothly and there are still lots to do. I hope with the task/timeline list that I have compiled, the backbone of setting up the campaign, will help me along the way to achieving the goal of the launch date that have been set.

On another note, about 2 weeks ago, as angelhands Inc have just recently moved into their new office, the community news reporters came to talk to my supervisor about how things were getting along since they moved. This let to a photo taking session to be included in the paper and me plus a few other 2 other volunteers on that day was asked to joined in the picture. Well I wasn’t really hoping to actually catch a glimpse of that article but my friends did and here it is! How exciting! I’m actually in the paper. :D

Thought I share that with all of you hehe.

Thanks for reading & I hope by the last blog entry, I could say I have completed quite a few tasks from above because it has been the biggest responsibility I’ve had at a work place and it would be quite satisfying if I do a good job; as this would also be good on my resume.

Till next time!

Deanna C.

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A few days into my intern and I've been spot on the spot!

Hi Fellow PR393 Students!

This is my second blog post, which I will be discussing what I have done so far into my placement and what I will be working on throughout my 20 days with angelhands.

On the second day of my internship, my supervisor got me to start looking through information from the 50k in 50 days fundraising campaign. At first I was quite confuse as to what and why I
had to read through the boring piles of notes and drafts because I was starting to doze off during
work hours. I was trying my best to stay awake! Then before I knew it, I had to familiar myself with all
those documents as I will be working closely with the fundraising committee.

So currently, I'm working on a the 50K in 50 Days fundraising campaign where my first task was to set up a campaign brief so the campaign committee are able to review it and make any necessary changes
before the board meeting. This felt like quite a huge task for me and I could not believe that I was
writing a real life brief with my own ideas for the organisation to follow up on instead for just a university assignment. It made me feel important and I had to be responsible and reliable for the work that I was going to do. But it was also exciting at the same time to see what I could come up with.

I am grateful and glad for what I have learned while studying at Curtin University! If not because
of the practical assignments like writing press releases and/or reports for real life clients, I would not be
able to accomplish the task that I am given by my supervisor.

I was also in given the role of making sure the poster of the campaign would appeal to the public which I had to meet the graphic designer to lead him in the right direction for the campaign which includes my opinion on what looks good and what doesn’t; as well as the information that will be shown on the poster as well. I had to liaise with him to make sure everything is going well, but of course report back to my supervisor and she would make the final decisions.

I felt like I was put on the spot when I decided to intern with angelhands; especially because I am currently the only PR personnel in this organisation as of present.

I hope to get my hands into the social media side of things as well though, by helping angelhands with their Facebook and/or Twitter pages.

This is what I've accomplish so far and will keep you posted on what angelhands have got installed for me next. (:

<3 Deanna C.
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A Late beginning with angelhands Inc

Hi Fellow PR393 Students!

I’m finally writing my first blog post since this is basically only my second week into my placement. It has been difficult for me to find an internship as I started out late and most of the organizations that I called already have a student intern with them. Though I have yet to regret my decisions as I am fairly please with my placement with angelhands.

There were quite a few obstacles I had to pass before I found my placement with angelhands. Some of which was as mentioned above as many organization have already taken in a student placement and then I came across Water Polo WA and got in contact with the person in charged. Because they have just got a student that would be interning with them this semester, they have referred me to the Melville Water Polo WA with my main focus being The 2012 Tom Hoad Cup which takes place at the end of the year. I was so excited to start with them but it was most likely impossible as the final report is due in mid November and if I decided to go on, I would not have gotten very much experience as they only need me most in the months of November and December. Plus I would not have been able to finish my report in time by the due date. So I continued looking and got referred to angelhands by another not-for-profit organization and that is how I got to this point.

I know there are only 5 weeks of classes left so it is going to be a challenge with how much I will be able to accomplish when working in the public relations sector at angelhands. But I am willing to put in the time and effort to learn as much as I can from them and experience first hand in a real life job in PR. So I have decided to come in 3 days a week, every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to get as much time in as I can manage.

 Angelhands is basically a not-for-profit organization that helps traumatized victim of crimes. This could include individuals or families who have been affected either by homicide or by serious personal violence. In addition, there is only one paid staff within the organization while the rest are either volunteers or student interns just like me. This is definitely not like a usual PR internship one would look for and that it why I am so excited to learn about how their organization operates and everything else that comes with it.

Because of my short placement with the organization, my supervisor has got me to get straight to work; though my first day was quite breezy. I went to the National Health Awareness Day where there were many other not-for-profit organizations just like angelhands. My job for the day was to check out all the different organizations at their stalls and look at the type of marketing and promoting strategies that they have incorporated. The point of this was to gather information on how angelhands can improve to become more creative in the future. I also listened to how my supervisor and volunteers of angel hands spoke to the people and I tried speaking to them myself but I definitely was not ready for such a huge leap though talking to other not-for-profit organization’s staff members was quite interesting as they not only share their promoting tricks but what the organization means to them and why they chose stick by it. The experience that I have acquired on that day totally intrigued me. I just could not believe the stories I was hearing, as I never knew how one’s life could be so terrifying.

Overall the first day on my internship was very much a chilled out day as I ended at 2.30pm. But I must say, it got me thinking and wondering what I would be assigned to do for the PR side of things. I’m glad that I have chosen this organization as my placement for PR Professional Practice 393.

Till the next post then (:

<3 Deanna C.