Comments on: The difference between print & web, + how NOT to launch a student campaign. http://www.thatdamnredhead.net/2009/03/05/the-difference-between-print-web-how-not-to-launch-a-student-campaign/ red + white + geek all over Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: that damn redhead http://www.thatdamnredhead.net/2009/03/05/the-difference-between-print-web-how-not-to-launch-a-student-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-206 that damn redhead Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:14:27 +0000 http://www.thatdamnredhead.net/?p=427#comment-206 Actually, I did get a response, which reads as below (bold emphasis is mine just to weed out her main point): <blockquote>Krystal Long, Director of Student Relations posted 3/13/09 @ 1:12 PM EST From my understanding of your comments of the Mobile Student Government Launch, I appreciate your honesty and positive criticism. We our currently working to update the website so that it will be more up-to-date and resourceful to the student body. However, I must clear up the misconception about our event that we hosted a few weeks ago. <b>The purpose behind the event was to not only get the concerns of the students in person, but to encourage them to voice their concerns on the student concerns blog that we created, it was not intended to stir people to just check out the content of the website. It is our goal to encourage students to be more proactive with voicing their concerns to Student Government so that they can see the changes they want made on campus. In order to accomplish this task, Student Government and the student body must work together and communicate effectively, hence the purpose of the blog.</b> As I stated before, I completely agree with your comments about the website, but I hope that my comments have provided you with a clear reason as to why we ran the Mobile Student Government Launch. We were focusing more on having the students interact with us and the rest of the student body via the blog.</blockquote> And as much as I do appreciate her attempts at an "official" response, I didn't even bother to go through their tedious system to log in five times and comment once. Why? Because it's clear that it's gone COMPLETELY over the heads of everybody involved that they're <b>USING THE WRONG TOOL.</b> As I said, a bulletin board/forum would help achieve their goals of "communicating effectively" much more than a blog in this case, but if they can't see that then it's hopeless. Actually, I did get a response, which reads as below (bold emphasis is mine just to weed out her main point):

Krystal Long, Director of Student Relations
posted 3/13/09 @ 1:12 PM EST
From my understanding of your comments of the Mobile Student Government Launch, I appreciate your honesty and positive criticism. We our currently working to update the website so that it will be more up-to-date and resourceful to the student body. However, I must clear up the misconception about our event that we hosted a few weeks ago. The purpose behind the event was to not only get the concerns of the students in person, but to encourage them to voice their concerns on the student concerns blog that we created, it was not intended to stir people to just check out the content of the website. It is our goal to encourage students to be more proactive with voicing their concerns to Student Government so that they can see the changes they want made on campus. In order to accomplish this task, Student Government and the student body must work together and communicate effectively, hence the purpose of the blog. As I stated before, I completely agree with your comments about the website, but I hope that my comments have provided you with a clear reason as to why we ran the Mobile Student Government Launch. We were focusing more on having the students interact with us and the rest of the student body via the blog.

And as much as I do appreciate her attempts at an “official” response, I didn’t even bother to go through their tedious system to log in five times and comment once. Why? Because it’s clear that it’s gone COMPLETELY over the heads of everybody involved that they’re USING THE WRONG TOOL. As I said, a bulletin board/forum would help achieve their goals of “communicating effectively” much more than a blog in this case, but if they can’t see that then it’s hopeless.

]]> By: Jamie Favreau http://www.thatdamnredhead.net/2009/03/05/the-difference-between-print-web-how-not-to-launch-a-student-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Jamie Favreau Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:36:55 +0000 http://www.thatdamnredhead.net/?p=427#comment-205 Did you ever get a response? That was half hazard what they were attempting to do. I am glad that you made some progress and got something heard. I hope they read your blog because they need some clear idea of what do and clearly they didn't do enough research on the matter to do a good job. <abbr><em>Jamie Favreau’s last blog post..<a href="http://jamiefavreau.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/featured-in-an-article/" rel="nofollow">Featured in Jobsinminneapolis.com</a></em></abbr> Did you ever get a response? That was half hazard what they were attempting to do. I am glad that you made some progress and got something heard. I hope they read your blog because they need some clear idea of what do and clearly they didn’t do enough research on the matter to do a good job.

Jamie Favreau’s last blog post..Featured in Jobsinminneapolis.com

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