Communications (2-22-10, 2-24-10)

This week went to gearing up for the 15th anniversary. Kari Watkins, my boss, created a list of the print publications that she wanted me to contact for deadlines to pitch stories. I began the search through Vocus, which is a like a media database, to find the contact information for the list. I called everyone from the Journal Record to the NY Times. This was a great experience for me because it showed me how to look up media contacts as well as what questions to ask for when wanting to pitch a story in their publication. One key thing that I learned from this is that most magazine publication want pitch stories for events that are at least three months away, this is very important information.

I also created the rough draft of the March Memorial Minute and contacted Kurt at KGOU for the first person interviews they want to broadcast.

Interview transcription (2-7-10, 2-8-10, 2-10-10)

This week was extremely stressful!!!! Well let me start by saying it was stressful because i made it that way. Every year I say that I am going to work on my Procrastation and I never do; and this is me showing it at its finest. This week I was assigned to transcribe the interviews that we conducted the previous week. I had great intentions on transcribing 4 people a day which would have given me 5 days to complete it. No biggy, just before bed or in my down time I could do a few. Well that did NOT happen and I had to rush and do all of them in two days. Any one who has transcribed before knows that this is a long process that should not be put off. But in the end I did get it done, after locking myself in my office for 5 straight hours, just coming out long enough to use the bathroom, I was able to complete the task. The moral of the story is not to procrastinate ever again!!! well at least not on transcription :o)

Clinton/Communications ( 2-1-10, 2-3-10)

Last week I edited a press release about the Clinton exhibit in Little Rock Arkansas. This was very important to the museum because artifacts were shared with the Clinton Presidential . I also had a communication team meeting. In this meeting we discussed what PR plans that we wanted to implement as far as when to send releases out, who to send them to, and what content was going to be in each of them. This meeting was very interesting to me because it allowed me to see the PR campaign in the beginning stages, which in turn helps me better understand what I need to do for the company and see the main picture more clearly.