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Over
the past year, I have been involved in Ramblers Hiking Club. When I initially
joined the club, there were about ten people that regularly attended the weekly
meetings. I was extremely surprised there was not more interest in creating and
planning hiking trips. I noticed that the board members lacked proper marketing
of their club. Ramblers is a member driven club, meaning that any member can
plan or lead a hike. Again, I did not see enough people planning trips that I would
be interested in. However, I stuck it out until the end of the year by planning
as many trips as I could. At the end of each school year, Ramblers has
elections for new board positions. This got me thinking outside of the box a
little bit, because I wanted to be able to collaborate more with members. I contacted
the board and faculty advisor to add a new position to the board, which would
be known as the Director of Marketing. Obviously, I ended up getting the spot. Over
the summer, I created the club’s website; it can be viewed here. With a background in marketing
and content creation, I could not think of a position to better fit my skills. Additionally,
I created the club’s Instagram page.
With all of the exciting new editions, Ramblers has been thriving as a club
this year. We are collaborating more than ever! Everyone in Ramblers has an
interest for the outdoors. We strive to make things easy for members by
creating car pools, and events people want to attend. We have had two meetings
so far this year, and there were about forty people who had attended the first
meeting and roughly the same for the second meeting. I am so glad to see things
are finally starting to pay off with all the hard work that has gone in to
making this such a great club. I knew that if I put my mind to it, there would
be a greater interest for the outdoors. The problem was that many people had
not previously heard of Ramblers. We made ourselves known by attending club
fairs and holding information sessions on campus to tell people about what the
Ramblers are. If you are interested in hiking or learning more about Ramblers, come to our bi-weekly meetings on Wednesday's in Harvill room 305. Our next meeting will be September 27th and we are having park rangers from Saguaro National Park come to speak!
Image via National Park Service
Hey Beau! This is actually very interesting, you might be surprised but I actually have heard of the Ramblers because a girl in my sorority showed me the Instagram page! That is so cool that you created that page for them. This club is a great way to collaborate in person as well as online like in your meetings and also your posts. It is awesome you get to expand your creativity by working with others who have common interests!
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