In the lead up to the University Games coming events most of my job has been data entry and a lot of it. We need to know who tried out, who qualified for a team, who is coming to uni games etc. I was vaguely familiar with excel before I started my internship, but now I know it up-side down and side-ways so I guess that it has been a valuable learning experience.
I think, we forget sometimes that although an integral part of our jobs will be developing and implementing public relations strategies, most of our day-to-day tasks will be all the leg work done behind the scenes. And much to my dismay most of that will be data-entry. I do have some exciting news though, so far I have 152 people attending our University Games Information Session! I am quite impressed considering I only put up the posters and facebook event last week.
That's another thing I wish I had practised before I commenced this internship, poster making! Who knew it could be so challenging? Especially when I can "only use colours that use the least amount of ink" and I have to use the black and gold colours to match our branding... Not as easy as I thought it would be! The first few I tried to make looked like something right out of primary school. But practise makes perfect and I found the best thing was to look at other organisations' posters and get a rough idea of how they are supposed to look.
Getting the word around campus that Uni Games is back again was not as hard as I first thought. I did the usual run-around with posters, fliers, facebook events, website updates but I found the best tool by far was word-of-mouth! Most students seemed pretty keen to spread the word and get their friends involved also. The only problem I am having is weeding out the students who simply want to come along to Uni Games just to party and have no real interest in playing sport, but we are monitoring that pretty well by getting teams to meet up and practice. So we can monitor who is putting in the effort.
I would definitely say a big lesson I have learned is once you have spread the word as much as you can it is really important to wait and see how well it worked and where it can be improved for next time. Good observation and evaluation is really important and can teach you a great deal.
Bye for now!
Jade
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Monday, September 19, 2011
R U OK?
Hey everyone,
Just another blog from me! I'm at Hollywood Private hospital helping out the marketing department and on Thursday 16 September it was R U OK? Day. You may have seen the ads on television with the lovely Hugh Jackman as the spokesperson for it. It is a national event that promotes the prevention and discussion of suicide around Australia. It is a day to remember and ask your colleague, friend or family member "Are you okay?" The idea behind it is to get people talking to one another and to realise that sometimes just one question and some kind support can make the world of difference to someone's life.
On the day, the HR team at the hospital held a sausage sizzle for the staff and sold reusable coffee cups along side for a gold coin donation. I think we managed to raise around $300 for the day.
I offered to take photos for any publications around the hospital they would want them for as I dabble in photography and love any excuse to whip out my fancy new camera.
It was wonderful talking to all of the staff who came down to support the cause and make them do silly poses with the cups for
the photos.
Here are some pics of the R U OK? cups:
Today was also really great as my supervisor told me that if I can write up a media release for her we could try to get some media coverage for it. It is for two nurses who received awards for all of their great service at the hospital. It will be very exciting if something happens with that. I better brush up on my press release skills!
Anyway, I have been having a wonderful time just enjoying the experience of working in their office and really appreciate the amount of work and trust that they give me. I am starting the next edition of the Zing highlights which will be out again next week and am dabbling in a bit of the events side by helping the coordinator sort out poster designs. So overall it has been a good start to the week.
I hope everyone else is going well and good luck with your reports!
All the best,
Kate Millar
13643087
Just another blog from me! I'm at Hollywood Private hospital helping out the marketing department and on Thursday 16 September it was R U OK? Day. You may have seen the ads on television with the lovely Hugh Jackman as the spokesperson for it. It is a national event that promotes the prevention and discussion of suicide around Australia. It is a day to remember and ask your colleague, friend or family member "Are you okay?" The idea behind it is to get people talking to one another and to realise that sometimes just one question and some kind support can make the world of difference to someone's life.
On the day, the HR team at the hospital held a sausage sizzle for the staff and sold reusable coffee cups along side for a gold coin donation. I think we managed to raise around $300 for the day.
I offered to take photos for any publications around the hospital they would want them for as I dabble in photography and love any excuse to whip out my fancy new camera.
It was wonderful talking to all of the staff who came down to support the cause and make them do silly poses with the cups for
the photos.
Here are some pics of the R U OK? cups:
Today was also really great as my supervisor told me that if I can write up a media release for her we could try to get some media coverage for it. It is for two nurses who received awards for all of their great service at the hospital. It will be very exciting if something happens with that. I better brush up on my press release skills!
Anyway, I have been having a wonderful time just enjoying the experience of working in their office and really appreciate the amount of work and trust that they give me. I am starting the next edition of the Zing highlights which will be out again next week and am dabbling in a bit of the events side by helping the coordinator sort out poster designs. So overall it has been a good start to the week.
I hope everyone else is going well and good luck with your reports!
All the best,
Kate Millar
13643087
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