So what do you do again?
“Welcome friends to the Footprint Project!”
Today I am giving a presentation on the Footprint Project at the Otago Polytechnic office in Wanaka. I thought it would be a good opportunity to invite my various friends and acquaintances to hear a bit of background about that ‘project’ that I am working on for two reasons.
One I think it is something that a number of my friends will actually find quite interesting and two, I hope that I can break through that slightly foggy confused but thinking hard look I get when I try to ‘update’ them when they ask about ‘that project’.
I am sure that many people working in specialised fields have a similar experience as I do, when people ask me what they do. I always tend to hesitate, then depending on how well I know the person I assess what level of ‘information entry’ I should download on them, and then I start slowly. Depending on whether they seem interested I would move onto the next bullet point.
- I work for Otago Polytechnic
- We do a range of things but I am involved in a research project
- It is called the NZ Footprint Project, it is about the amount of stuff people use and some of the effects that stuff has on their community and environment
- We work with communities on the amount of stuff they use and how a lot of that stuff is getting more expensive. How will this impact them in the future and how can they plan so that we can continue to have healthy wealthy lifestyles
If I have managed to get this far the person is either thinking about dinner, a little lost or I have completely underestimated how much they know about sustainable pratice or they ask some interesting questions.
So if you are interested in how I am proposing to share what I do with my friends, you can look through my presentation on Prezie and I also hope to put the video link up some time soon.
on June 24th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Nice use of a blog post Ella, to share with friends both what you do, and your new presentation of it. I’ve bookmarked this and your Prezi to share with the OP heads of departments on Tuesday. They’re both in my http://www.delicious.com/jmsinnz bookmarks.
on June 24th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
That shoud jave linked to http://www.delicious.com/jmsinnz