Author: surabhip

After weeks of researching information and contacting organizations, it was time for our final presentation. Last week we had a generic outline planned as to what to include and also assigned roles to each member. To be prepared by this Friday we have held two meetings, Wednesday and Thursday, during which we ran through the entire presentation once and made changes if necessary.

On Friday, we met up at 12:30 at the Forest Science Center and from there Laura drove all six of us to NSEMO. We were scheduled to present at 2:00, which left plenty of time left over to set up. Since this was only our second meeting with Dorit, we started of by once again introducing ourselves before continuing with our presentation. The order of the presentation is as follows:

• First Laura talked about using social media effectively to market NSEMO’s services and encouraging traffic to their website. She later continued by listing different municipalities and comparing and contrasting them with NSEMO based on self-registrants, advertising methods, preferred notification methods and social media usage.
• Second Luke talked about utilizing community resources as a means of advertisement such as schools, universities, cultural groups, rec centers and so on.
• Third Angie concluded the presentation by talking about some legislative requirements that need to be met both by Rapid Notify and NSEMO.

At the end of the presentation, Dorit and Paulette both thought that the presentation was good and also had some general feedback. They felt that all the presenters made good eye contact however they could have slowed down a couple of times in the middle for them to gather their thoughts and write ideas down. We had originally thought of bringing a wireless mouse as a clicker, but we forgot it in the car and mentioned it to Dorit and Paulette, but they said its best if things like that don’t get mentioned as the client would never have found out and therefore is unnecessary. Also they indicated that during the presentation, only the person speaking needs to be standing up, while the rest could be seated so as to not disturb both the presenter and the client.

Overall, we have finished half of our CSL project and are getting ready to start working on the final report which is due on Friday, February 24^th, 2012. Each member is again responsible for their own sections and final copies will be sent to Erika and Surabhi to compile during reading break.

Final presentation: CIVL 202 presentation

As last week’s blog entry stated, we have distributed between group members and worked on researching and gathering information related to Rapid Notify. This week our main objective was to prepare for our presentation, and have a generic outline planned. We have held two meetings, Monday and Thursday, to give updates and to divide responsibilities for the presentation.

At our Monday meeting, we shared all the information we gathered, and offered general feedback as to what each member could do to further their tasks. Angie had an idea suggesting that NSEMO could give presentations at elementary school assemblies.  This way parents could get information through their kids about Rapid Notify. We also discussed the possibility of contacting the fire department for their input as well.

During our Thursday meeting, we divided each of our tasks for the presentation. The breakdown is as follows, Jennifer is going to be responsible formatting the entire presentation and each of us are responsible for our own sections. In order for us to be ready to present on Friday, we all agreed to send Jennifer our slides by Monday night, so that we could practise at least twice together.

Overall, nothing much happened this week because most of us were already done our research, and had a sense as to what they wanted to include for the presentation. Our next meeting is going to be on Monday, February 13^th, during class, where we’ll hopefully have a rough draft of the presentation prepared and be able to run through it once. Till next week!

Presentation outline: NSEMO presentation outline

Our CSL project involves upgrading NSEMO’s (North Shore Emergency Management Office) emergency public alerting system, Rapid Notify. Our goals that should be met by the end of February are as follows:

• Determine best methods of marketing
• Engage the public to participate and register
• Improve NSEMO’s user manual
• Examine Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

Our team consists of 6 members:

Laura Bickford is originally from Victoria, BC, but now considers herself a permanent resident of Vancouver. Laura spent the last summer working on the PMH1 Improvement Project and hopes to continue working in construction management or transportation design.

Luke deBruijn completed his first year of engineering studies at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops and is starting his second year here at UBC. He looks forward to working with NSEMO this year.

Jennifer Law is a second year civil engineer student from Vancouver. She and Surabhi is in charge of the blog update for this project.

Surabhi Prasad is a second year civil engineering student at UBC. She plans on applying for an architectural degreee after graduation and hopes to continue in that field.

Angie Smythe grew up in the Okanagan where she played and coached soccer and enjoyed the outdoors. Now living in Vancouver, she likes running along Jericho Beach, taking in the beautiful views of the city. She is interested in both structural and transportation engineering.

Erika Tuomi is a second year civil engineering student at UBC from Smithers, BC. She plays on the UBC women’s rugby team and is the Communications Team Lead for the UBC Engineers Without Borders chapter.