ABU Workshops #Blog3

Hello guys,

Iam back again, as I promised you on my last post i will be giving you some basic roles I played and experiences.The Workshops for the organisation  worked for kicked of on the 18 July - 30 July 2011, the workshops where divided into 3 sections of topics,

1. File-Based Production Systems and Media Asset Management,
2. 
   
   Online Learning Platform, Methods, and Creation of Training Materials,
3.  New Transmitter Technologies for Radio and TV Broadcasting

For the first workshop we worked as ushering, assistants and messengers in the running of the event, it was a very tiring procedure I had to work 7 days without a weekend, that was too much, I felt like quitting but when it went on I figured that it was my profession and I should keep the good work up. The first topics of discussion were too technical so I had to ask my supervisor on some issues I was lost at, and he tried by all means to answer me in a simplified manner.

My main concern was also that the event lacked the presences of the media, I then tend to be the Journalist of the event in which I found my new profession as being a photo journalist for the events.

The events went well and were in a way all successful due to my input and work in the background, and that really motivated me that no matter the hardships, you should keep on going, I learnt a lot, as i had to put my communication skills into place, listen and then give back the responses, I worked with different nationalities on the event even if their tone was problematic at times, I had to adjust and let the workshops be a success.


Technology is also an emerging part of PR, we had a live Webinar during the 3workshops in which people who did not make it would tune in and listen and take part on asking questions during the sessions we had.

In short i had a wonderful time running the whole workshops, and by far have gained so much knowledge for what to expect when you are in the field of managing events.


This is some of the information i had for yo guys,


Thanks and feel free to put in a word.


Regards 


Keletso Ndiye Kakanje
14464629
LUCT

My First Week at ABU Organisation #Blog 2 (Event Preparations)

Hello again mu fellow PR Professional colleagues on the today post i will be updating you on what my first week was all about with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Organisation.


Okay I will say I had a really great interview the previous week, and now was the time for me to shine, and show my boss how great I was with the field of work I have interned for. I was so greatful that when I started the organisation had been on some preparations on 3 (three) major workshops for the following week, to be hosted for a period of 2 (two) weeks. What we had to do was to prepare for the events. So these takes me to the part of Event Management under our program. We had to check whether every aspect of the event was on place and ready for the opening, we had to  look at the following during that week: 

• Site 
• Budget finalising (Catering Company)
• Scheduling (Program finalising)
• Site design
• Technical design (Webinar setup)

From my first week at work all was set for the major event on the 18th of July in which we had a total of 40 participants from all the member organisations of ABU.

During all the preparation I did notice one major concern, the organisation did not have local journalists to cover the event rather they mentioned they relay on the publicity of their organisation website to disseminate the important informations and that they had the event on their quarterly magazines and monthly newsletter sent to the members of the organisation. Also the use of Microsoft Outlook was a major source of communication with sending invitations to participants.

From these blog post I would like us to discuss on the importance of the relationship between Media and Public Relations  sector in order for me to recommend the findings to my organisation. And what other new ways can we keep the media up to date with what is happening on our organisations. So that ABU Organisation can use and consider building a great relationship with media on their future events.

Thank you and kind Regards

Keletso Ndiye Kakanje

14464629

LUCT