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2009 Green Grads Review
This week Green Grads passed the one year milestone!
Our very first article was posted on the 11th of November 2008 and since then we’ve played around with a number of ideas connected to our overall goal of establishing a community for Australian law students and young legal graduates. Some things have worked quite well and others, well, not so much.
The idea behind this post is to have a quick wrap up of our 2009 and give you an idea of what we’re planning in 2010.
Summary of 2009
Overall, 2009 has been a success. None of us really knew what to expect when it came to setting up this website and for the most part, the main goal was simply not to crash and burn in our first year. Well I think we can cross that lofty goal off the list.
But I think it’s also fair to say that we’ve done some good things beyond merely staying afloat. The Tuesday Transcript series has been very well received and is well worth a look if you haven’t been through them all yet.
The more recent Green Scenes, while sometimes a bit hit-or-miss, seemed to be pretty popular as well.
Our Grad Girl series was also a hit, among law students especially. Of course, given the nature of the series, it was difficult to get enough content out to to build up a real following – but that will happen over time.
Ultimately, 2009 was a good beginning for our community.
Short Term Plans
Now that most university semesters are winding up, this website is going to be a bit quieter as we prepare for the 2010 semester. This means that over the next three months or so we’re going to shift our focus away from this ‘blog’ side of things to some more direct communications, like Twitter, email and even some real world meetings.
Our aim is to spend some time planning, building up for a much stronger 2010.
Long Term Plans
In the longer term, we are planning to change some things around a little bit. For one, Green Grads will probably have a different (better) feel in 2010. We’re currently in the process of choosing a much better name for our community (and if you have any suggestions, feel free to send them in!). We’re also going to go through a complete overhaul of the website so that everything is a bit easier to use.
We plan on putting much more of an emphasis on networking and introducing people to one another. This means we’re going to try to do less blogging (ie. one-way communication) and focus on more interactive, two-way communications.
The idea has always been to create a network and so 2010 is going to be all about building on what we have achieved this year and making that network worthwhile.
Connect With Us!
So, as some of us finish up our semesters, some of us finish up our degrees and others start to look forward to a bit of time off across the rest of the year (my sincere apologies to the Biglaw lawyers and clerks who felt a pang of hatred reading that) we wish you all the best and look forward to connecting with you throughout 2010.
Remember you can stay in contact via our RSS Feed, our Twitter (@Green_Grads) and even by (what is, these days, almost old-fashioned) email.
posted 16 November 2009 @ 10:00 by Ben »
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