By day, I am a mild-mannered nonprofit communications specialist. My LinkedIn profile explains a little more in-depth on what that involves but just to summarize, I work on distributing my agency’s message throughout our service area through various methods like social media, print & electronic mailings, and the traditional news media, of which I had been part of before jumping into the nonprofit sector.
Based on the document I have that lists the needs of the International Cultural Consortium (ICC), I will be doing a lot of the same work for their specific project. This means that for the most part, I do not have to teach myself an entirely new set of skills, which is nice. Case in point, I am working on an announcement to the media about the project. I have written many press releases over time so for me, it is a bit like riding a bicycle.
Still, there are some tasks that I cannot say I have never performed before, but I would not call myself an expert on the matter. Like building a new website for the ICC. Now you might be thinking, hang on a second, you built this website, didn’t you? It is true that I can make words and sometimes pictures appear on a screen with the push of a button, but that is about the extent of my knowledge.
It is not, I suppose, a bad thing to learn basic web design because having that ability comes in quite handy in this ever-increasing digital landscape we live in. So I welcome the opportunity to try my hand at it and all the parts to the ICC’s communications efforts.