This week I only managed to do two
days since I was sick for the third day. I, however got to work on website
content for the events/projects page and help out at an event organised by our
organisation, 32dsg.
The events page content is looking
good and I am learning to set it out exactly how they want the web designers to
produce it. There are so many skills I thought I would never use from university,
especially the units that I started off doing in Mass Communications before I
changed to Journalism and PR. For example the skills of text wrapping where you
format pictures within the text so that the words move according to where the
picture is. The understanding I have from ‘wiki’s’ we did in PR corporate and
PR International gave me the knowledge to be able to link documents to the page
and realise how all the pages will be connected in the end. There are so many
little things you learn in university that can help you so much in real life.
The interns were asked to help out at
the oZAPP Roadshow
event being held in Perth at Spacecubed in
St Gorges Terrace. We were told we were going to do the meeting and greeting,
give out nametags and information as well as help out with food and drinks. The
manager of the event space did not help out all the ‘girls’ all carrying drinks
and heavy glass ware up to the room. It was amazing how this portrayal of
rudeness can change the opinion of a company hosting an event in this space.
32dsg’s events coordinator immediately said she would never use this space
again.
Although there were a few things that
were working against this event such as the fact that there was another event
straight after ours, in the same space, and that many of the people registered
were not on the list for nametags, no one really noticed anything was wrong.
The glassware was hired and therefore we needed to take them home but people
for the next event were using a lot of them. However, we managed by kindly
explaining the fact that this was for a different event. We solved the nametag
issue by getting attendees to write their own names on a nametag. Overall
people enjoyed the event and we were able to enjoy it too. I think one of the
things I noticed was that there is little time for a person organising the
event to actually enjoy it. There is always something to do or something to
coordinate and therefore you really have to sit down and debrief to realise
what could have been done better or what was successful to truly appreciate
your efforts.
This coming week I will be making up
the extra day I missed because of being sick and therefore I will be able to do
a lot more in terms of website content and helping out with the content writing
of a clients website that is about to launch in a couple of days.
Until then,
Thanks for reading.
Martine
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