Annual Report 2007 - Glebe District Hockey Club

Social Convenor’s Report
This year the publicity role was combined with social responsibilities due to a lack of women
committing to the Social Convenor Role.
The Publicity Officer role began by rejuvenating the website and making it up to date. This
involved working on both the men and women's section of the website and working with people
such as Adam Campano, Patrick Casey, Mark Paterson, Helen Howe, Ann Rochestor and Rae
Lindeberg to update player profiles and have a match report on the top three grades every
week.
Next year I hope to improve the match report section as the match reports written every week for
the women were written by me and for the Men, every week written by mark Paterson for first
grade and Adam Campano for Third Grade. Most of the information that went on the home page
of the website was either publicising an upcoming event or putting up information that other
people provided to me.
Writing the newsletter every month was a task that needs to be improved as information
provided to me was only from a few select sources, so may not have given a true evaluation of
the month for Glebe Hockey. The information was general enough, but the effort can be
improved by creating relationships with people willing to provide information about different
sections of the club
The most successful aspect of the Publicity role this year was obtaining media coverage in The
Glebe Newspaper. The first article appeared on The Yates Cup and from that period up to the
finals, Chris Jenkins (photographer) and I obtained 5 articles on the men and three articles on
the women. Considering that we only began writing for the paper half way through the year I
believe this was very well achieved. The majority of articles featured pictures and were very
prominent within the sports section.
The social roles that were undertaken by myself were concentrated on assisting Ian in the
organisation of The Pub Crawl. The Pub Crawl was a success as we had the best numbers yet
and managed to raise money for the club through t-shirt sales. Publicising Social Events was
done on the website as well as sending out emails to the entire club. Next year hopefully the
women will have a social representative so that Ian is helped out as much as possible and I can
stick to concentrating more on publishing the events. Next year I hope to work with Christian
Campano when creating invites for the Band Night and widening our audiences.
Overall I believe that Publicity for Glebe Hockey was improved and now that I have had a year
experience in the role I can aim for bigger things next year.
Louise Tapsell
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