Media Team Makes Progress

May 26th, 2011, 8:49 pm

Since last class the #MediaTeam has made a lot of progress. On Tuesday, we discussed some tasks that needed to be focused on in order to execute great results. The group then went on to form a Facebook page with an event titled “We Like You, You Like Us”.This is a way to spread awareness and engage our audience.

The “We Like You, You Like Us”, event page on Facebook

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New “Likes”, on Facebook.

We managed to track our progress using a feature on the Facebook page which tracks our progress since the Winter 2011 semester. The Facebook statistics show that we are reaching a demographic of mostly females who range from ages 18-24. We have also reached people within the community as well as across Canada and outside of Canada.

Target Audience and other demographics.

In terms of social networking we’ve been live tweeting and have organized a tweeting schedule. We have members tweeting 10-15 times each. We have set goals to reach higher numbers of followers on twitter and plan to tweet over 1,000 times by the end of the semester.

The Media team has increased its follower numbers.

Every Media Team member is pleased with the work that each member has contributed so far. As a collective group we hope to reach a larger audience on a national level and continue to educate others about the Green Corridor.

Guess who’s back?!

May 12th, 2011, 9:46 pm

by Kaitlyn Quigley, pictures by Kristen Mastrodicasa

Brewing up some media/promotion related ideas through our mind map.

Kaitlyn and Catrina turning ideas into sharpie marks.

Hello and welcome to a new chapter in the Green Corridor!

We are the media group for the 2011 Intersummer course composed of students from all spectrums of the academic community. After hours of collaboration we have come up with our most important issues to take on. Our overall goal is to chronicle all of the projects occurring in the Green Corridor. We will accomplish this by using various social media (Facebook, Twitter, and this blog) to track our progress. Also, by planning community events, we will allow for the residents of Windsor to become involved with our mission!

Get ready for two events happening this month! We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on so stay tuned!

–Media Team

Rethinking a Green Gazebo

May 19th, 2010, 2:16 pm

The Green Furniture group got together and decided to take the idea of green furniture into another dimension: a green gazebo. By altering the definition of ‘furniture’ as something that can only be utilized by a few, a gazebo is more inviting because it’s outside and available to everyone. We decided the best location for the gazebo would be on the vacant land at the Ecohouse. By locating it there, it would be a focal point where people can sit and enjoy all the hard work of the Wildflower Group. We decided that for this project to be ‘green’ we would need to use recycled material. We planned to make trips around town on garbage nights to collect items. We’ll also contact Waste Management for permission to collect waste from their premises. We thought that making a Facebook group would get the community involved by getting them to donate material for our project. The Facebook group would also create awareness for our project. The one thing we hoped to achieve was to create beauty/art by utilizing recycled resources. So we laid-out a plan and got to work.

Imagine this done in recycled materials...