What I do at World Vision

It's been a while between posts ... over six months in fact, but it's not because I haven't had posts up there in my head ready to come out.

Since my last post way back in November, I've changed roles, but have still kept in touch with the RACV Energy Breakthrough & HPV community. I've bought a new bike (expect to see an ad for my old Bianchi 928 here soon!), celebrated my 4 year of marriage to Fee and have been certainly a lot more active at work than my 'year of reflection' in 2010. I think I'm getting better at saying 'no' too.

Since November last year, I've been the Digital Presence Co-ordinator for World Vision Australia.
I prefer the title: Online Guy, the myself, but hey - organisations are good at making up big titles for roles like mine.

What do I do at World Vision?

World Vision Australia homepage

Within our Digital Team, I find and publish stories, help with campaigns and do some project work for the World Vision website - worldvision.com.au. 

Think of me as like a Magazine Publisher, I don't write the stories or take the photos, but I collate them, play a part in finding them and commissioning pieces and deciding on where they fit into the website structure. Once these pieces of content are published, my offsider Carlos and I let our Social Media Team know and they tweet and facebook out the articles.

I also look after content and advise on web projects like the 40HourFamine.com, Team World Vision and Connecting Lives.


Do I enjoy it?

Yes! I feel like I'm in the right place at the right time. The people I work with (like Richenda, Keith, Jeff, Carlos and Prarth - amongst a host of others) are wonderful, really colourful people and I have a sense that I am able to give my best for World Vision in this role. The opportunity to take stories of need or hope from around the world and bring them to an Australian audience where people can respond - financially or non-financially - is a great one. I hope I can do the people in World Vision's projects around the world proud.


So, really ... why no posts lately?
I think it's really challenging to spend all of my days online to come home and write a blog. There comes a point where there is just too much screen time for me and I can't take it anymore.

Let's hope that I've turned a corner and I get my act together to post a bit more often!