So the semester has rapidly drawn to a close and with that so has my internship. My last days at Creating Communities have been seriously action packed though!
I was very excited to learn that a media release I had sent to the Post Newspaper was published in an article- they used pretty much all my wording so I was very pleased to see my work published.One of the community development teams asked me to participate in the inaugural Markets at the Village at Wellard a PEET/CCA initiative. This meant waking up at 4am on my Sunday morning and going down to help at the market, my job was to follow the event running sheet and provide information to stall holders, help them set up and then also run the fruit and vegetable stall, at the conclusion of the day I helped to pack up and give people information on the next market day and also provide Creating Communities and PEET with feedback that people had given to me whilst I manned my stall.
After the success of the first round of staff photos I had to organise to get the photographer back for a second lot of individual staff photos for staff that missed the first round. This was certainly a lot easier the second time around!
As part of assisting Paula with her work I have been involved in updating and editing copy from the back end of the website. I was also delegated the job of doing quality control on the website making sure spacing and page layout was uniform throughout.
I was given the job of writing some staff biographies for the new website which basically consisted of getting different staff resumes and condensing the information into a small paragraph that would engage website readers.
Last week I wrote some more press releases for the website, on recent past events. They weren’t going to be sent out to media but were going to be archived on the news page on the website. This meant getting permission from clients to release media statements mentioning work that has been done in partnership. So some more valuable media release and phone practice!
I spent an entire day creating a comprehensive media database breaking down print, electronic, radio and television with further break down of print into business, real estate and fashion. There is still a bit of work to be done, this includes magazine publications but this can be added to over time and my work has definitely set the foundation. It was really handy to be able to go back through old pr assignments and use the media contacts I had already researched.
As I mentioned in my past blog I have been creating a conference database, this is an ongoing job and I do conference follow up research every week to see if there are any new conferences being announced which are of interest to Creating Communities and also to follow up with organisers to see if our directors can be put on judging or speaking roles.
The Creating Communities newsletter is going ahead at full steam! I have been chasing up ideas and writing articles for the e-blast and news page for the website. The topics which I have been following up and writing on are
o Community Economic Development Plans in Broome and Cairns
o Fly in/ Fly out Centre of Excellence research
o AMSRS- Australian Market and Social Research Society membership
o Melbourne office opening
o Website launch
o Parks and Leisure Award
So my time at Creating Communities has drawn to a close, I just want to acknowledge and thank my mentor Paula, who has consistently supported me and answered my many questions. I would also like to thank the Creating Communities directors Allan and Donna for giving me the opportunity to work for them and for giving me so many interesting projects.
I hope this experience has been a rewarding one for all of you as much as it has been for me. So this is it guys...end of our internships and end of uni....time to enter the 'real world'!
Wishing everyone all the very best!
Primrose
