Media, Media, and More Media

As Camp Rivercrest's media coordinator, I am blessed to not have one standard thing to do, but rather I have the opportunity to work on all sorts of different projects. (I've decided that I should stick with the job title "media coordinator", and I don't think anyone will argue with me about that.) For example, here's what I did today:

-Tried to find a really old video camera that recorded on digital cassettes. We have a lot of videos in this format, so we'd like to be able to archive them.

-After not being able to find this camera (although I found a lot of other cool things), I transferred some camp pictures from my computer to an external hard drive. Someone found this HUGE hard drive yesterday while cleaning out the sound booth, so now I have a place to store the pictures and videos when I finally start scanning and uploading them.

-Joined three other people in the editing of a newsletter article.

-Met with Jon to tell him about the social media I created for camp yesterday. You can check it out for yourself!
             Twitter: https://twitter.com/CampRivercrest (There are no followers yet; you can be the first!)
             Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/camp-rivercrest-retreat-center-fremont-2 (I took a lot of the pictures that are included here. I also wrote the "History" myself!)
            Google+: https://plus.google.com/115989753506356260150/about?gl=us&hl=en (This one isn't complete yet as I don't actually have admin privileges to it yet.)
            During this meeting, we also came up with a camp e-mail address for me so that I can manage this social media and do other things. So now you can e-mail me at media@camprivercrest.org!

-Grabbed a camera that I found this morning while hunting for a video camera, and went outside so I could take a picture of Jon that would be included in the newsletter.

-Added the new picture, new article, and other modifications to the newsletter and sent it to Emily so that she could also review and edit it.

-Changed my e-mail address on our social media accounts so that it would be a work e-mail instead of my personal e-mail.

-Got the mail while Emily was using my computer.

The Fall Newsletter: What much of today's fuss was about

Of course, the day isn't over yet. Tonight, I'm also going to the first Awana meeting of the year. Jeff is the Awana commander at church, and there was a shortage of volunteers this year, so he managed to convince a couple of us at camp to help out.

And oftentimes I do things that aren't related to our media at all. (Or I end up blogging in the middle of the afternoon in an attempt to spark my work creativity! Hmm...) I wash dishes, run activities, and host when retreat groups are here, as well as attend staff meetings and do some cleaning on weekdays. It's a neat experience and, most of the time, I love my job!