Hi everyone,
Yesterday was a big success for us. We took to Twitter with the aim to gain as many followers, re-tweets, tweets as possible. This has set us up for the exciting week ahead, so we can reach out to more and more people. An extra one hundred people followed us in A DAY, we had 560 views on our website, and all that could not have been done by our adamant tweets: Jolene Dillon, Sophie Liddament, Eva Brock and Lizzie McFarlane. Whilst we probably irritated a heck of a lot of people on Twitter, we got retweets from some very big names, which is very important in terms of spreading the word, considering they have a silly amount of followers!
As well as that, I will briefly go over what Sophie mentioned in last night's blog about me having a meeting with some people from my university. They are very supportive of student's running their own campaign, however they need to take into consideration that there are many National Awareness weeks each week, and so they cannot support us AS MUCH as they would like to for the week...considering they have student elections etc this week. However in two weeks time, I will be able to put up framed A2 posters in the SU, leaflets around the site, and speak to various people about potential funding. As well as this, the services at my university for eating disorders is very poor, and so today I will be talking to the welfare officer about the lack of services and what can be done. If all is well from there, I will then take to York University and do exactly the same!
Further to this, I will be storming my campus with a HD video camera on Friday, filming (probably) ill-informed students about eating disorders, and hopefully educating them a bit about them (unless they know a lot, and then I will let them get to their lectures on time).
You will see another blog this evening by Sophie. Have a great day, and get out there and raise awareness!
Hannah x
Yesterday was a big success for us. We took to Twitter with the aim to gain as many followers, re-tweets, tweets as possible. This has set us up for the exciting week ahead, so we can reach out to more and more people. An extra one hundred people followed us in A DAY, we had 560 views on our website, and all that could not have been done by our adamant tweets: Jolene Dillon, Sophie Liddament, Eva Brock and Lizzie McFarlane. Whilst we probably irritated a heck of a lot of people on Twitter, we got retweets from some very big names, which is very important in terms of spreading the word, considering they have a silly amount of followers!
As well as that, I will briefly go over what Sophie mentioned in last night's blog about me having a meeting with some people from my university. They are very supportive of student's running their own campaign, however they need to take into consideration that there are many National Awareness weeks each week, and so they cannot support us AS MUCH as they would like to for the week...considering they have student elections etc this week. However in two weeks time, I will be able to put up framed A2 posters in the SU, leaflets around the site, and speak to various people about potential funding. As well as this, the services at my university for eating disorders is very poor, and so today I will be talking to the welfare officer about the lack of services and what can be done. If all is well from there, I will then take to York University and do exactly the same!
Further to this, I will be storming my campus with a HD video camera on Friday, filming (probably) ill-informed students about eating disorders, and hopefully educating them a bit about them (unless they know a lot, and then I will let them get to their lectures on time).
You will see another blog this evening by Sophie. Have a great day, and get out there and raise awareness!
Hannah x
