Showing posts with label STORM PR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STORM PR. Show all posts

Sunday, October 7, 2012

The PR World Welcomes The Digital Era


Hello everyone!

This is my second post about my internship placement, and I am going to blog on how the PR world welcomes the digital era.

During my internship placement, I attended Hangouts On Air Training held by Google. Google held this training opened to public, and hence, I was provided with the rare opportunity to attend with my colleagues. I was so exciting when I was informed to get myself taking part in this hangout!

Event Pass

As the training took place in Sydney, and we have this opportunity to join this session via hangout from the Google Singapore Office. The aim to hold this training is to provide the attendees an idea on how best to utilise the Google+ Hangout platform.

Google Singapore Office

This is a great opportunity to learn more about Google+ and hear some great case studies on what it has been working from around the world. Google+ hangout platform plays an important role in today’s world. With the accessibility of Internet, everyone could easily get connected. Likewise, this is a good platform to obtain interaction among the public in creating a two-way communication – a remarkable channel in engaging a small group of target audience and meanwhile has the ability to reach out to the mass. 




The video above shows Kraft is tapping the social media platform to garner awareness for its newly launch mint flavour dairy milk bubbly bar. They utilised Google+ Hangout platform to link up nine fans to sample the new mint flavoured product live. Indeed, they managed to obtain a strong engagement between their consumers and the brand itself.

In today’s world, it is undoubtedly that social media platforms play an important role in assisting the traditional media to garner awareness among the public.

Till the next,
Chia Shin Ru
1513 5858
Curtin Singapore


Monday, September 3, 2012

Step Into The Real World


Hi everyone,


I am Shin Ru and currently in the midst of completing my undergraduate degree at Curtin Singapore. Having all the academic PR modules completed by June, and it is time to put my knowledge in the real world.




I have already completed my one-month internship with STORM Creative Events Agency. STORM is a boutique Events and PR Agency, that is both creative and innovative in its approach, taking a client’s vision and turning it into a remarkable reality. Specialising in F&B, beauty, lifestyle and fashion industries, STORM believes to bring a stronger presence for the brand amidst the general public.


My role in the agency is media monitoring / media clippings, social media updates at Facebook, media list updates, send out pitching stories to potential media, come out with PR proposal, and other ad-hoc tasks.


Having the fear in not getting a placement, I know I have to start my internship search as early as possible. In before hand, I have sought advice from seniors, and they told me that it would be better to gain hands-on experience from boutique agency. Also, I get to know that boutique agency handles fewer accounts in which the workload is manageable. This provides us, an intern a platform to utilise our PR skills learnt from school.


Ever since I was certain to work in an agency, I came out with a list of local boutique firms, followed by sending out resumes to them. In early June, I am glad to have my four-months internship secured with STORM Creative Events Agency starting 1 July 2012.


For the past month, I have myself adapted to the working life and able to get myself on the track to complete the tasks. My role in the company is to work on media monitoring/media clippings, social media updates on Facebook, media lists updates, pitching to media, PR proposals to potential client and other ad-hoc tasks. With the joyful atmosphere alongside the friendly colleagues, it provides me a good working environment – to learn and to gain lots of working experiences.



Till the next,
Chia Shin Ru
15135858
Curtin Singapore