3/24/2010

Well last week was Spring Break, and this week I have lots to do!! I have been working on a power point for the Total Resource Development Campaign for many days now, and today I have made the last few editions and tweaked it to make it just right. The membership packets were shipped to the Chamber instead of to the members directly, so I organized the packets so that delivery volunteers could take them out. This week has consisted moslty of organizing and filing and administartive work and less "PR" work. I am starting to realize that working at a non-profit requires a lot more dedication and team work with employees. I love how I get to work in communications but I am not stuck doiong one thing. Like the other day, I learned how to upload news stories to the Chamber web site. I would have never thought that I could post anything online besides this blog! :)

3/10/10

The Chamber is going through renovations to the entire building. The Convention and Visitors Bureau is going to move frm their location down the street, to the main building. Having a 9-5 job is making me appreciate the hours of college more and more.

3/8/10

This week at the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, I have been doing a lot of work on the lunch-n-learn Powerpoint. I have been searching through ever folder to find pictures for every event that the Chamber has in a year. I found a picture of the event that showed how many people were there and with a speaker, and then I found pictures for the same event of a smaller group of people at the event preferrably with signage in the background. The pictures will then be used in this powerpoint to show other company's advertising and fundraising opportunities for their own company. I haven't started putting the picturs in the slideshow because I needed to find two pictures for about 40 events. Some of the events have already occured in 2010, so I uploaded pictures from the events like the career fair. The carer fair was a big success this year with lots a thousand students showing up. I attended two all staff meetings this week, and even though I sat in the back and didn't really know much of what they were talking about, I did understand that the next three month are going to be very busy for the communications department.

3/3/10

It is finally March!! I am learning a lot here at the Chamber. The other day, I wrote an article about the Aerospace Summit and Expo for the Point, which is the Greater OKC monthly newsletter. The Career Fair is over, so there are no more major pressing projects to work on for that. Now I am mostly working on materials to be mailed in order to set up and get ready for the Conference of Mayors. I aslo wrote a real news release which was pretty awesome!!!