Seeing as I have fallen behind and gotten very slack with my posts, I've decided to do a May Mega Month, where I collect all my work from over the month of May in one blog post.
Ok here it goes, in the month of may I wrote 4 Around the Ground articles, each one approximately three pages long so, what’s that? That’s 12 pages of writing straight off the bat for May. In those articles I covered Floreat Athena's season revival, and their historic grudge match against rivals Stirling Lions. I wrote about how Balcatta managed to maintain its season dominance over the league but only narrowly holding on to top spot by one point. I saw the NTC consistently defeated which shed light on the question, if teams are playing in a league where they don’t receive points for games, is the thrill to win lost?
In the month of May I was also assigned tasks of researching not only for Football West own e-magazine Beyond 90, but for press releases and letter's to the board. Some of the research items I looked into was the history of Stirling against Floreat this was in conjunction with a Sunday Times reporter which was very exciting at the time, it was also rewarding the fact that, on the following Sunday I looked in the paper and saw my research in a state newspaper. I've also been asked to research the Matilda's this is for a piece in the Beyond 90 June edition, with the Women’s 2011 Germany World Cup about to kick off later in the year I had to write bio's and a set of questions for four West Australian Matilda's including the West Coast player Daniel Kerr's younger sister Samantha Kerr. There were other small items like comparing our own disabilities program to that of other states, and when other clubs asked for it a summary of another club's performance.
May was also the month where Football West also received another corporate sponsor My Solar, which now has its name to the Masters, Sunday, and my very own Metropolitan Leagues. I played a small part in the rebranding of the three leagues but it was still an invaluable experience.
May was also the month where Football West's marketing manager Ben Fitzpatrick left the company, details weren't really revealed to me but I believe it was on good terms, what this meant was that in Bens absence Chris assumed both roles, needless to say I was there too. I only get a very small amount of exposure to advertising and marketing but I am very interested in it, I find the psychology and artistic flare is advertising and marketing interesting.
I was also involved in writing many press releases, most were purely internal but there was a press release that I was very proud of that was circulated amongst not only the stake holders but media outlets as well. It was concerning Football West very own inclusion program where kids with disabilities can play the world game together under supervision, whilst participating in programs to develop their football skills.
With all of the PR heavy stuff as stated above I was also given some boring yet essential office work as well, it including organising some match cards and updating the Football West sever coordinates for the grounds.
All in all I was kept very busy at Football West during the month of May and I believe I have learnt a wealth of knowledge, whilst being there and it was a great experience all the same with only two more weeks left there I can only assume there will be more of the same to come.
No comments:
Post a Comment