Final presentations

Final presentations last week were very good. What I found the best was the chance to see what artefacts did the rest of the class produce. Everyone showed creativity and approach.

My presentation did not go as smoothly as would have liked to. I did not know what exactly to present however I believe I said the most important information and everyone could see and touch my artefacts. It was good that I had prepared some sounds as well as this was a requirement of the assignment.

The time limit was not an issue at all as most presentations were relatively short. I guess no one was sure what the expectations are as we weren't given detailed guidelines. This, however left room for creativity in the way of presenting.

Creative Exercise - genres and text

The task of this exercise is to create different text based on a workshop leaflet for the following genres:

• Newspaper advertisement (The Australian)
• A textbox on the company webpage
• Email
• Mobile phone (SMS)
• Printed invitation (posted)

The workshop is titled How to Deal with Grumpy, Moody Co-workers?. The tile suggests that the topic is rather sensitive and it could be carefully presented to the different audiences.

Newspaper Advertisement (The Australian)

(Title) How to deal with grumpy, moody co-workers?
(body text) A CareerOne interactive workshop which will assist managers and leaders of people to best deal wth the issue amongst teams.
(two columns) Date: Tuesday May 11 2010
Time: 3.00-5.00pm
Price: $45 for members/$60 for non-members
Venue: Centre for Management Development, 180 Port Road, Hindmarsh
RSVP: by Friday May 7 2010

A textbox on the company webpage

(Title) How to deal with grumpy, moody co-workers?

(body text)Do you have grumpy or moody people in your workplace?

What causes them to be grumpy and moody?

How should you deal with these people?
Join the interactive workshop on May 11 2010 at the Centre for Management Development
(bottom of text box) Click here for more information.

E-mail

(subject line) Interactive workshop coming up soon
(body text) How to deal with grumpy, moody co-workers?

Do you have grumpy or moody people in your workplace?

What causes them to be grumpy and moody?

How should you deal with these people?

Join in the CareerOne interactive workshop to learn how to deal with such issues amongst teams.

Date/Time: May 11 2010/ 3.00-5.00pm
Venue: Centre for Management Development, 180 Port Road, Hindmarsh
Price: $45 for members/$60 for non-membersRSVP: by Friday May 7 2010

SMS

CareerOne Interactive workshop on May 11 at 3pm - How to deal wth grumpy moody co-workers?

Printed Invitation (posted)

Dear Mr. Black,

CareerOne is pleased to invite you to an interactive workshop "How to deal with grumpy moody co-workers" presented by Ian Wilson.

The workshop will take place on May 11, 2010 at 15.00 at Centre for Management Development, 180 Port Road, Hindmarsh. Price for non-members is $60 and for members $45.

Please RSVP  until May 7, 2010 by filling in the form attached to this invitation.

See you there!

Kind Regards,

CareerOne workshops organizer

+ Attachment - the RSVP form

"The era of free content is over"

Faifax's iPad app

A media issue that struck me at once was the article inthe Media section of The Australian which reads that the era of free content is over and that Fairfax would begin charging users for their online content. Will this genuis idea be embraced by online readers or will it boost newspaper sales? The company is launching an app which will be free for the first 6 months and then it will cost $8.99 for monthly subscription. There will be discount for 6 month or a 12 month subscirption.



Although the company states that they've been existing for 180 years and that content was paid for those 180 years, I am not quite sure whether people will be willing to do so once they have been introduced to the free online content. I am not used to buying newspapers and I also wouldn't pay for online content unless it is part of my job. I would say that we could get the news from somewhere else! When I am used to not paying for certain thing I wouldn't very happy to learn that suddenly in 6 months time I am supposed to pay to get the news online.

There has already been quite a lot of responses to the article saying that because of the wide range of choices people wpuldn't stay loyal to a newspaper if its content becomes paid. A comment on this article posted online reads: 

Steve Posted at 5:01 PM May 30, 2011



If their content is superior to free content then people will pay for it. Currently though, a large portion of their content is recycled from elsewhere and not the quickest source of news.

I totally agree with the abovementioned comment, usually people would pay if what they get for their money is better than what they ger fo free. I believe people would be reserved and wouldn;t jump into subscribing, probably they'd use the app for the first 6 months till it's free and then find another sorce of news which will be good enough to satisfy their needs.