Helping out with EXON blog could help you to develop key professional skills relevant to research and healthcare such as appropriate communication and teamwork skills. It can also help prepare you for a wide scope of post graduate jobs, WHILST contributing to scientific discoveries in medical and clinical practice!
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What does that role involve?
The Publisher
You'll have to be imaginative! As you'll need to both think of ideas for blog posts AND also share them through our EXONsocial media pages. (facebook, twitter etc). But don't worry if you do your job right, you should get plenty of inspo from people contacting EXON blog and leaving questions, quotes and things they'd like to read about etc., Just kidding! This role will also require some keen extra reading and snooping for big/interesting scientific stories and events. Its is great as it gives you the opportunity to build your leadership, decision making and communication skills! The Writer/Journalist In this role there are LOT of opportunities to write both colloquially and scientifically! You can even have a go at video interviews and surveys with students around campus. The opportunities within this role is vast! You just need to be able to collaborate well with your publishers, editors and fellow writers! You will definitely pick up some teamwork and negotiation skills (to obvs win those popular articles), Furthermore you'll improve your overall communication skills! As you'll be expected to produce well written, (or spoken) concise and interesting work! The Editor if you're a bit of a perfectionist, you'd be perfect for this role! but you'll also need to be willing to be one of the leaders amongst the web committee group! but don't worry its not totally down to you! There are plenty of editorial positions to go around! Things you'd have to do include: 1)You'll have to make decisions over who writes what article on your designated section (if more than one person requests) 2)You'll have to proofread work for your section 3) You'll have to collaborate with the publishers to decide on the content of your section 4) You'll have to collaborate with the design team to decide on the media you would like for your section. Overall In this role you will gain a lot of team management skills, leadership and communication skills |
The Photographer
Your role is crucial, as we don't want to just take ANY old photo off the internet, creative commons won't have it all! (...besides we might get done for copyright...). SO! If you have a standard camera, willing subjects and a creative eye. Try this out. You can even try your hand at film (particularly for the interview section). You'll definitely gain some teamwork skills as you'll have to collaborate within the design team and with the editors! Plus you'll hone your ability to take and edit quality photographs. The Cartoonist If you're any good with a pencil, mouse or picture editing software you would be perfect for this role! You can even try your hand at animation! You'll definitely hone your creativity and teamwork skills. As you'll have to collaborate within the design team and with the editors to produce images that tie in with the entire page! The Website Maintenance Group If you're any good with web code/the weebly website, you would be perfect for this role! The site will be full of posts, pictures and videos and it will be your job to maintain (and upgrade) the appearance of BOTH the mobile and static sites! You'll definitely hone your problem solving, creativity and teamwork skills. As you'll have to collaborate within the design team and with the editors! **Have a go at designing you're own weebly site first! |