This week I’ve continued to complete my assigned tasks on my own, as my supervisor is still on vacation. I’m continuing to comb through long lists of comic shops, bookstores, small press outlets, and blogs. My goal in all of this is to turn all this disorganized information into a clean, workable dataset for outreach for CXC 2023 and in the future. My work now will let CXC better sort through and organize their contacts, and as we reach out to them and establish long term relationships prioritize those which best match CXC’s mission. 

Earlier in the week I completed the monthly social media count which CXC conducts. These are completed within the first week of each month in order to track our online presence. Here I went through our social media presence and recorded views, followers, subscribers, and other relevant statistics. I focused particularly on our YouTube channel, and the views of particular recordings of past CXC events. All of this information is entered into a spreadsheet containing all past monthly counts, so we can better understand our digital presence and growth. I also looked into the growth of our following on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. These stats will help us better understand our social media presence, the impact our posts and messaging has, and how best to utilize these platforms to spread the word about CXC.

Another exciting, and intimidating, task I’ve been working on is updating the script for our 2023 radio ads. I was given copies from last year’s ads, and asked to update them with current information and perhaps provide my own take on them. While updating them with dates for CXC 2023 and cross referencing sponsors wasn’t too difficult, I’ve certainly never written a script for a radio ad before. I still have time to try and draft my own versions of the ads, and would love to try and improve upon them, so over the next few days I’ll be doing my best to create something that will be heard all across Columbus!