Department: Advertising
Company Supervisor: Shatha Al-Khatib

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The last Task (Translate English press release to Arabic)

In this task I had to translate an English press release to Arabic. As a beginning I read the press release it was seven paragraphed about Harbor Real Estate sign an Memorandum of understanding to offer advanced Real Estate training programs. I tried to understand what the topic and the press release talking about. After getting the idea I started to translate each paragraph alone and get the best explanation that I could have. It wasn’t that hard to me to do this task because Arabic is my mother language and it easy for me to have the best sentences, but the difficulties that I had face is some English words that I didn’t understand so I had to search for their meaning and as an advantage I learned new words. Finally, it wasn’t hard it was exciting because I had to do something as a change from long time I didn’t do it.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Media List

Today I worked in the online media list its very similar to the magazine list, I had to check the emails of the people who’s in charge of receiving the press releases. Some of the online magazines I checked in their website and I found the emails and others I couldn’t find any contact information so I had to send email to the one that I have and check if it’s the right one or not. Added to that, many of the magazines have contact numbers then emails which I had to call them and ask for the email that we can send our press releases too. It was an easy task, but what I didn’t like is how people treat you they don’t have any professionalism spicily the Managers. In the last point I think an online magazine has to update their contact list and add more information for their customers to make it easy for them.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Task 5 (magazines list)

As I started working in this task it was very easy and it doesn’t need researching or reading. This task was more interested than the others because I had to communicate with people which are my favorite thing to do. The meaning of magazine list is a contact list of real estate property magazine with many details like journalist’s names, positions, numbers, fax and emails I had to update this information and check some of them also, complete some missing information for some of the magazines. In the beginning I organized the magazines and I wrote what the information that I needed for example, the editor information in each magazine and who is in charge of receiving the property press releases. However, when I started calling some of the people was very helpful and many of them were very rood anyway what were important to me to get what I want. Added to that, I had some difficulties of finding some information like contact numbers, but I sorted out by emailing the editors. It was very excited to work in this task because it’s a good practice to learn how it’s important to organize different contact list and how we deal with people.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Website templates

After I finished my third task I didn’t start directly in the fourth one because the details explanation in my task was not ready, anyway what I did in this three days is searching through the internet for website templates or taking ideas about how professional websites looks like to help Harbor in their new project which is creating three website for three different companies. As in my experience of creating website is that website should be organized and having a creative template, but what I think is that not necessary that this two things will make the website successful because if the website are nice viewing maybe the information and the navigation in the web might not be useful or clear which will cause less viewers and losing customers. For example, I was visiting chanel website they have great template professional features, but it was very hard to me to navigate in the website it was very complicate to find what I was looking for. So website is not easy to create people has to have a plane to cover all of the point that people care to see or what they expected to see.



Thursday, February 25, 2010

Website development

In my task three, I had to come up with new reassures to develop and enhance Harbor real estate website and Harbor communications by research other competitors’ websites like, Provident real estate, better homes and Sherwood's. In the beginning, I found out that researching for reassures or tools easier than looking for information because information has to be specific and reliable, but in my opinion searching for tools it’s more interesting the reason is that tools are clear and easier to understand. While I am working in this task there are many tools that I liked and I find them excellent. For example, Adding Harbor social media accounts in the website because it very important for Harbor to be connected with their visitors or their targets to allow people to be updates with the latest news without visiting the website all of the time, but in interested way like twitter, face book and blogs. Added to that, I find the latest news tool helpful because If the company target is bringing back the visitors or increasing the viewers to Harbor website we have to afford them the easiest way to get information and the latest news not to search for them, Latest news link offers the chance for people to save their time and get what they want at the same time. What I learned from this task is websites appearance or how they are organized it’s very important for the company to get more viewers than loosening them. Also, it’s important to deliver information to people in clear and simple way. Tools are important because they are the only way to make the website easy to navigate.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Social media

This week was the end of task two, I enjoyed working in social media, but not all of the websites for example, linkedin and my space because I didn't get any use of them. What was very interested is that I had the chance to improve Harbor media relations in many ways and optimize their accounts which was good for them and for me to get this experience and learn new things.  

Monday, February 15, 2010

Social Media updates

 Blogger:
Edited the page change the layout
Added Harbor logo in the profile picture
Added Harbor email (Harbor-Dubai@hotmail.com) in the profile page
Added http://www.harbordubai.com/ website in the profile
Added http://www.harborcomms.com/ website in the profile page 
Added the location of the company
Blogs that harbor follows (seven blogs) and one follower
8 articles in Harbor blog
3 videos
6 links for other real estate blogs
Added Harbor blog to blog top list website in real estate categories 
photo gallery do Dubai pictures

Twitter:
Edited the profile and layout
Added Harbor logo in the profile picture
Following 255 people
Followers 94
One list is following us and I follow 5
Harbor has 14 tweets (stories) 
Following some real estate lists to increase Harbor twitter page
Receiving emails and replay on them
Update and checking other tweets
Added http://www.harbordubai.com/ in the profile
Added http://harbor-dubai.blogspot.com/ in the profile 
My space:
Edited the profile and layout
Added Harbor logo in the profile picture
Added all Harbor videos
Joined some real estate groups
Added update news
Added people
Added http://harbor-dubai.blogspot.com/ in my blog 
Added https://twitter.com/Harbor_Dubai in my blog

Linked in:
Edited the profile and layout
Added Harbor logo in the profile picture
Joined some real estate groups
Follow real estate discussions
Add contacts
Added http://www.harbordubai.com/ in the profile
Added http://www.harborcomms.com/ website in the profile
Added http://harbor-dubai.blogspot.com/ in the profile 
Added https://twitter.com/Harbor_Dubai in the profile
Face book:
Change the profile picture
Added groups
Added pages
Added friends
Added Emirates News  video
Added http://www.harbordubai.com/ in the profile
Added http://www.harborcomms.com/ website in the profile
Added http://harbor-dubai.blogspot.com/ in the links 
Added https://twitter.com/Harbor_Dubai in the links