Thursday, September 20, 2007

My part in creating TravelTelevision.org: Alex

This summer I had the opportunity to work for a volunteer group, TravelTelevision.org. For this project, I helped locate sites to send press releases to as well as look for potential designs for the site. For the first part, I initially looked at college newspapers. The goal of this was to send the message to college students, who are one of the groups most likely to volunteer. After that I searched for press release sites and media contact lists. Some press release sites I found were http://www.prleap.com/, http://www.pr.com/, http://www.free-press-release.com/, and http://www.openpr.com/. A media contact list I found was at http://www.fair.org and included the email addresses for many news organizations. After this part of the project we searched for website templates to model the site after. I found some interesting designs at http://www.templateyes.com.To build the site, four of us worked with a mentor to create the various components of the site. On August 29, we were able to go to the TV studio and see the premiere of Travel Television. The experience was very fun and interesting and I am very glad I joined in.

Alex

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