*The Debatewise Blog
The new five of this week!
David Song's five things of this week...- Beating Betony in the who can get the most University and College addresses to send out marketing materials to, woop! Plus gaining a tenner from that!
- Got some more phone confidence, and discovered I actually don't mind doing it, in fact kind of enjoyed it!
- Sitting in on an interview, which was a really good experience and I learned a lot as well.
- Put my first debate up on the site (about time really haha)
- Managed four days of work here, as well as working my bar job. I'm absolutely knackered! Was worth it though...
David Crane's
- Committed to doing two, count them, presentations for the IDEA Youth Camp in April in Istanbul
- Met with three different people who we could help and who could help us: Vote Match, The Electoral Reform Society and the Ministry of Justice
- Got the revisewise.debatewise.com subdomain working. Not a big thing for someone who knows their stuff, but for me…
- Ordered (and paid for!) all the marketing materials for Revisewise
- Got the grant money in for the World Online Debating Championship. Thank you IDEA, again.
Alex
- Been phoning and emailing student newspapers about what they would like to see in an article on revision, with little success - however sounds like they would be willing to put articles in the paper, I was expecting loads to say ‘no sorry go to advertising’ who would effectively say ‘pay us Xhundred pounds please!’
- Wrote my first non academic debates for the site on topical issues of Northern Ireland and Tibet \o/
- Written up some ideas on the article and passed them on to Betony – more research to do though
- Written a possible guide to putting academic debates on the site – may be a bit long, I should probably condense them into bullet points to keep the attention of the students
- Contributed to discussion on what is needed for the site
Betony
- Arranged (and attended!) two very productive meetings with Electoral Reform Society and Votematch (unlock democracy)
- Honed my minute writing skills to a fine art!
- Got 18 people universities/colleges to agree to accept marketing materials (not as many as David S but i'm still pleased)
- Interviewed interns to fill Terence's place (some very promising candidates and more on Monday)
- Reached 100 twitter followers and was RT'd by resident twitter guru @monchips (high praise indeed :p)
- Learned some html!