Monday, October 11, 2010

Week four

As is probably normal for most internships and work places, as the weeks went by the more the work piled on. Week four was really focused on advertising, public relations and you guessed it...social media nightmare! I completed three town government press releases that were distributed internally and posted to the website. These press releases had to do with upcoming town trips and activities, news on the fountain and its spring schedule for release. The town was trying to conserve water and had to cut down on the number of times the water shot up from the fountain during the day. I have to say, seeing as the Town of Fountain Hills is very community focused, alot of people were bothered by this. The town holds the fountain very near and dear to their hearts and any changes to the norm aren't taken kindly. However because of the need to conserve water and cut down on operating costs, over time the public sentiment lightened. I also researched advertising possibilities for the Town of Fountain Hills, their upcoming events and Facebook and Twitter mention. On that note I was still in the process of disassembling the old Facebook page and beginning to create a new page to drive people to so as to detract from the old page. However anytime anyone from the team logged in to the new page, it would cancel out the cancellation process. This is because Facebook recognized the email addresses. We then had to work with the Tech department to create a new account for us, and start over again....


1 comment:

  1. I have to agree that week four took an interesting turn. I was also piled upon with work. It does sound like Fountain Hills is a pretty good city to work and live in. It is good to see a community actually rally around something that the town has built. The fountain sounds fantastic and must get there to see it one day.

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