Welcome to my Secretary Blog
[Posted from my seperate blog at www.mildert.co.uk ]
I've decided to try setting myself up a blog on this website in order to try and help keep everyone up to date on what I've been doing (or not doing), and to inform them about things going on both in and out of College which they might or might not be interested in.
As well as posting my weekly bulletins to this blog, I'll also post other things which won't be e-mailed around, maybe about ideas in the pipeline or just random burblings on what Exec have been upto. Ultimately we are all responsible to you, the JCR, so I think you have every right to know what I've been doing with my time.
Since becoming elected I've been working closely with James, and have slowly been taking over his roles as JCR Secretary. The role itself, like many JCR positions is quite undefined, which makes it quite interesting when the current isn't entirely sure what the Secretary should, and should not be doing, let alone know what to handover to me! I should point out this is by no means anyone's fault, its just the role has changed quite a lot over the recent terms, especially when it comes to the behind-the-scences work the Secretary does with room bookings and event management, and lots more changes are on the cards for the future.
I've also started thinking about how best to implement the ideas from my manifesto and speech, obviously many of you will have noticed that I set up a Facebook group which has already been used to promote several College events, I've written a guide for committee heads detailing how to use this group to best promote their events. We've also started talking about how we can further reduce the amount of e-mails being sent out by Exec members, and whether we can use other technologies more (such as this blog!) to report to you what we do and whats going on.
Anyway, thanks for reading through this far, I would love to hear your comments on any of the issues discussed on this blog, paul.nicholls@durham.ac.uk
Read the rest of this post, and keep up with the rest of my JCR Secretary Blog on the Van Mildert College JCR website, www.mildert.co.uk (Its under Latest News -> Secretary's Blog, alternatively use this as a direct link )