Week 4

October 8th, 2014
Start: 11:45am
End: 7:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs

     Since there was a lecture today at 6pm, I got to come in at noon and stayed until 7pm. After finishing up a few more synopses, an associate named Rebecca came up to me and introduced me to some social media projects. One of my new responsibilities at the Met is to work on and schedule posts onto the Met Guild Twitter and Facebook. In order to seamlessly multi-task between the two social media apps, Rebecca showed me this website called Hootsuite which is really easy to use.  Rebecca also let me know that the social media team was going to have a meeting at 1pm and that I was free to sit in and listen so I attended and it was very short and sweet. The other people on the social media team are Amanda, Nick, and Kim who are all really nice. In the meeting, we talked about all of the posts that we had scheduled for the next month or so and it was great seeing how productive and on top of things people seemed. The format of the meeting was also different because no one in particular was leading the discussion so it seemed really communal, but I personally prefer the way that Stuart leads his meetings.
     After the meeting, I was assigned two dates to post things on Facebook and Twitter for: today (the 8th) and the 10th. For the posts about the 8th, I had to write up a post about the lecture happening which I will talk more about later. The 10th was Verdi's birthday (if you don't know, Verdi is one of the most famous operatic composer to have ever lived) so I had to write a post about that. The Facebook ones were a lot easier to write than the Twitter ones because the Twitter posts had to be under 140 characters so I really had to think about what I wanted to say! Here are the two tweets I ended up with (I was quite flattered at how popular the Verdi tweet was):

     After that our team started to set up for the lecture. I was responsible for setting up most of the chairs in the OLC and once I was done with that I helped Kyle and Rebecca greet people when they entered and helped collect their ticket stubs and register them in for the lecture. Then I got to attend the lecture and it was GREAT! Jane Marsh is such a great speaker and even though Macbeth isn't one of my favorites of the season, I left the lecture so sad that I wasn't able to watch it! I'm really looking forward to watching more of her lectures!