The day of the seminar arrived and despite the tremendous speed at which it had approached we were all generally well prepared for what was to come. A group of us met a couple of hours before the seminar was due to start in order to ensure that everything was under control. I was part of this group, having successfully made the journey across three changes in public transport with my 100 cupcakes unharmed.

Together the group of about 4 of us finalised all aspects of our presentation through a combination of printing, tweeting and general logistical discussion. We fiddled around a little in order to make sure our live twitter feed was up and running, this resulting in my 3 year inactive Twitter account being resurfaced with a flood of posts hashtagged “SocialSeminar”. Once more group members began to arrive we started to move across to building 80, transporting all required props with us. At 3.30 Ned met with the guests and took them for a coffee/brief while the rest of us set up for the Seminar now that we had gained room access.

Despite having a few technical difficulties during setup and also not realising that we were in fact allowed to stop people from entering the room before our start time of 4pm, everything was sorted and we were away and running by 4.02pm!

REFLECTION:

Overall, I feel that our seminar was a success. Despite having little time we had managed to gather three unique, engaging and beneficial guests to speak in front of our peers. I think the content that the guests provided was a perfect mix between being interesting and insightful whilst also providing valuable information about working within the social media/online industry. Another thing which I felt work particularly well was our live twitter feed, as this was a simple and entertaining way for our audience to engage with us and our guests.

During the seminar I was responsible for live tweeting from both the RMIT adventure twitter account, our own In(ternet)ception account and then also my personal account where appropriate. Although this was a minor role I felt that it was essential in maintaining and content in the feed. I feel that with this role, as well as the other task I undertook as part of this assessment, that I contributed evenly to my group. It was great to work within a group where we all seemed to be on a similar wavelength and where we were easily able to establish clear roles and intentions. As we were able to distribute tasks so well we made a process which could have easily become highly stressful a relatively smooth endeavour and I think this is something we should all be congratulated for. Finally, it should be noted that we would have never have been able to achieve such a result without the tireless work of our tutor Mark. He supported us every step of the way and was a huge component of our success.