April 16, 2008
I must be crazy.
Posted by Tiara under Applications, The Netherlands | Tags: KaosPilots, netherlands, try again? |Because I’m about to reapply for the KaosPilots - this time in Rotterdam.
Would this blog count as a form of marketing for KP? The creative assignment is to design & test a marketing campaign to promote KP NL. Though this blog has mostly been about the Aarhus school, I still managed to promote the KaosPilots to a whole bunch of people who had never heard of the program beforehand. It’s meant to portray KaosPilots Netherlands in a positive light though - and I haven’t really mentioned anything either way about them (except the fact that they too are recruiting).
Well, here’s something positive: they offered to send me a token by post in appreciation of my interest. Aww.
Hmm. Maybe my blog AND the Facebook group have been great marketing strategies. KP (all schools) have done blogs and FB groups too, but none’s really from the perspective of a potential student - sure, it may be hard to find one to blog for you if you ask them (because it may seem to be biased - “oh we’ll guarantee you acceptance if you write about us”) but as I mentioned before, it has linked KP to a whole bunch of new people.
At least I have a bit more than a month this time! And this time, I will have FUN with it. Be silly. At least give them a laugh, if nothing else. Maybe finish it off in 5 days or something.
Mwaha!
April 16, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Shit, bro.
April 17, 2008 at 8:59 pm
That is great news. Have fun with it. I think you should look at the assignment with fresh eyes and come up with the best possible solution. If using your blog is that solution, great. If it’s not then don’t try to make the solution fit the problem.
I came across this and thought of you and your situation. There are some thoughts in there that might be of interest.
http://www.katrinamessenger.com/2008/04/meme%3A_passion_quilt
April 22, 2008 at 3:52 am
Hey Tiara! I’m glad to hear that you haven’t given up quite yet! I found your site, while i was doing the application for team 15 and further on I was very sorry to read that you were not invited to the workshop -’Cause you really deserved it and I was looking forward to meeting you! You’ve really put some hard work into this, so keep working! -But be totally aware that even though you may be able not take a kaospilot education, you will still be or become a kaospilot! - That just a state of heart!
Take care and keep fighting!
Best thoughts Cathrine, DK
April 22, 2008 at 3:59 am
Oh, I forgot! I had a comment also to the assigment in the Nederlands well! As Emilie is writing, use only your blog as the solution if you find that it is the most creative/inventive way to promote the education, otherwise not! I think you would benefit more with coming up with a solution to the exact problem, instead of using an idea that was really not meant for promoting the kaospilots in the netherlands… Maybe….