Post by llorynn on Oct 29, 2014 21:58:46 GMT -5
This class has been an overall great learning experience. At times, it did become confusing but everything came together in the end. It was demanding to post for the course every day but creating a content calendar or scheduling the posts did help. The only thing that confused me was that even if I only tweeted once a day, which was stated was alright for the course, I did not receive a 10 out of 10. It was interesting doing so many things on different forums for an online course. Between Facebook, RamPages, and this forum, it taught me a lot about organization. Participating so much on the social media platforms somewhat mimicked what I do now in my internship and if anything, I think it helped me to hone in on using those skills.
I really do enjoy the non-profit sector of PR, and watching the Google hangouts and listening to what they had to say about their organizations was really cool. In most cases, if an issue, illness or epidemic does not effect people directly, they are not concerned about it. Hearing so many different stories about the work that the organizations are continuing to do really shed light on what is going on around the world. All of the information was very informative, and that did help to foster ideas about the final project and how we could help the non profits with their future endeavors. Hearing exactly what areas they were suffering in really helped to formulate our social media campaigns.
Working on the final project proved to be difficult as well, especially since we never had in-class time to work on it and everyone's schedules clashed and did not seem to work for meeting in person. People did not always respond to emails efficiently or within a timely manner. Trying to get everyone to meet deadlines was a little rough but everything did come together in the end. We learned a lot about research and working one-on-one with clients. Helping these organizations proved to be beneficial and it felt good to know we could potentially be making a difference for these organizations, and in my group's case, World Pediatric Project.
I really do enjoy the non-profit sector of PR, and watching the Google hangouts and listening to what they had to say about their organizations was really cool. In most cases, if an issue, illness or epidemic does not effect people directly, they are not concerned about it. Hearing so many different stories about the work that the organizations are continuing to do really shed light on what is going on around the world. All of the information was very informative, and that did help to foster ideas about the final project and how we could help the non profits with their future endeavors. Hearing exactly what areas they were suffering in really helped to formulate our social media campaigns.
Working on the final project proved to be difficult as well, especially since we never had in-class time to work on it and everyone's schedules clashed and did not seem to work for meeting in person. People did not always respond to emails efficiently or within a timely manner. Trying to get everyone to meet deadlines was a little rough but everything did come together in the end. We learned a lot about research and working one-on-one with clients. Helping these organizations proved to be beneficial and it felt good to know we could potentially be making a difference for these organizations, and in my group's case, World Pediatric Project.