What's Up, What's Happening!

What have you been working on?

Since joining the Communications team of Ashley and Brendon, I have been doing a lot of great work. My first big project I have been working on with them is updating the SHM Media Kit. I have been working on many different tasks on this project so far and it is an ongoing project that is going to take a very slow process but it has been a great way to introduce me to SHM and communications in general. Some of the ways I have been updating the media kit is creating excel spreadsheets outlining changes for the new year, looking at other medical organizations kits and creating a mock table of contents and possible page ideas for them. Our next step for this is to email out all the departments and gather updated membership data as well as information pertaining to SHM’s growth and see what we need to include in next year’s media kit. We are also looking at new creative ways to make the media kit standout such as creating a PowerPoint for the board and making the media kit more user interactive.

                Besides working on the Media Kit, other projects I have been working on are first updating and tracking social media daily. Through this process I am drafting and posting status updates and twitter posts with the most up to date information in SHM. This has been a great way for me to learn more about SHM and the amazing things going on. Tied into the social media planning and tracking are the updates to the Communications Dashboard. This is SHM’s Communications department’s monthly dashboard that tracks the most important media information and how SHM is doing compared to last month and last month of the previous year. My role in this is reporting on the Social Media aspect and relay up to date data on the users within our multiple social media sites. Also, I am using Cision to keep track of our media mentions and tracking that in excel documents as well as a way to keep up to date information on important media mentions for SHM. Another small ongoing task I am a part of is updating the rotating web banners which you see on the main page of the website. This has given me the chance to see the process that goes into a creative briefs and delivering of a final product for the SHM website.  Finally, I am doing continuous work with Ashley on HMX in creating webinar documents and help documents for new users who are having trouble with HMX as well as doing work needed for Ashley to help make HMX run smoothly.

What’s the most exciting thing that happened in the past three weeks?

A lot of great things happened for me in the last three weeks so it might be hard to pick one! One awesome thing that happened was I went to the New York Knicks/76ers basketball game with my roommates and friend. I am a huge NBA fan and a diehard Knicks fan so it was great to go see them play! I had not seen them play in over a year and a half so it was awesome to be at the game and to see them win at the same time! Plus I am a huge Carmel Anthony fan and he was my favorite player for years now and once he joined the Knicks I almost died inside! So seeing him was really cool! Another great thing I would say is going to see the awesome plays for my Theater class. This term I took an easy 3 credit Theater class and so far it has been great. The last three weeks we have seen some awesome plays and it has been great to relax after work on Thursday nights and go see plays around the city and go to places in the city I have never been to like the Wilma Theater and Plays and Players Theater. It has been an awesome experience so far!

How did you like the board meeting experience?

            The board meeting was really great! Though I did not get a chance to meet a lot of the board, it was still cool to interact with some members and let them learn about us and see what we do here at SHM. It was also cool to see the similarities people on the board had with me and other SHM coworkers. For example, one of the board members lives around the same area as me which was really cool. Sabrina also got a chance to talk to board members from California so it was cool just to see little similarities with the board and be able to relate to them. Overall it was a great experience and a great way to feel like an important part of the SHM team.