Just like you can upgrade your cell phone service via Beyoncé, you can also upgrade your job title via Beyoncé. Wait…?
I’m excited to announce that I’ve recently undergone an upgrade, this time sans Beyoncé. My new title with OU Web Communications is Junior New Media Specialist.
New media is something that most businesses participate in. With the interwebs evolving on a day-to-day basis and branding becoming harder to keep in-house, it’s important to have people paying attention to the trends and actively participating in them.
Over the past 3 years, myself and my boss, Kam Stocks, Senior New Media Specialist, have taken OU social media networks to the next level. We’ve been working hard to make sure fans feel listened to and that the web presence of the OU community is heard loud and clear.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Gowalla, Foursquare…we do it all. And we love it. Branding the University through social media is about as fun as it sounds. Interacting with students on Twitter who are enrolling for the first time and can’t wait to be Sooners is a joy. Or producing videos that showcase the University and get parents and prospective students alike excited about their future career here at OU is just part of the joy of my job.
This new position title will help advance OU and the Web Communications Office to the forefront of the hottest trend out there: new media. I’m ready to be all new, with media. #teamwebcomm
Something VERY exciting happened last week. The film I was producer/production coordinator on, 1 in 3, had its first sneak preview screening at the University of Oklahoma Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
That is one of my goals–to edit more just for the hell of it. I’ve always put a lot of pressure on myself to do quality work and spend a lot of time on projects, but sometimes you just need to DO, and not worry about the rest.
This is the film that I was production coordinator on. It looks like we will be having a sneak preview February 24 at the University of Oklahoma as a part of a domestic violence awareness conference. More information about this will come soon!
Yesterday I had lunch with Bonnie Dunn with Transition House, Inc. about doing a video that promotes their non-profit’s services and gives a personal look into the agency. Transition House helps those recovering from mental illness in the Norman, Oklahoma community. This agency is about holistic healing and practical life skills. I recently heard of Transition House because of my work with the Women’s Resource Center.
The video will be in addition to a book project they have been trying to get off the ground for years. The book will be a collection of interviews from those currently working the program and those who have completed it. After Bonnie and her staff conduct the interviews we will decide who would be good (and who agrees to) be a part of the video.
I’m excited about this project because I love to do work for non-profits and I really think this is an important one. Oklahoma has a severe problem with mental issues. Twenty-five percent of Oklahoma’s 3.6 million residents has some form of mental illness and 11.4 percent of the population — about 420,000 individuals — are considered to have a serious mental illness.
That’s a lot of people.
SO, places like Transition House are vital to the overall health of this state. And while sometimes I do want to get out of this god-forsaken state, I really do love it. And I don’t want it to be sick.
Once we get things rolling I’ll update you on the progress. For now, it’s just an idea, but the ball is rolling…
ps. On a fun, not so downer side note, apparently the John Grisham novel The Innocent Man has some connections with Transition House AND Mr. George Clooney just bought the rights to the novel and wants to make it into a film. He should shoot it in Oklahoma, eh?
