Jingle bells, jingle bells, tasks all the way….. It’s the festive season but my team can’t relate. The task for the week has placed us under the mistletoe and left us confused. It didn’t take long before we realized the only kiss we would be delivering is a goodbye kiss to our plans for Christmas.
The task for the week dropped but everyone decided to take a break since we worked so hard to finish up for the previous week. Little did we know that we made a terrible mistake as no one even looked at the task twice to figure out it was a 3-in-1 assignment disguised to look simple with English. Here’s what we were told to do: “Using Canva, create graphic content for the blog created last week. Create a one-week content calendar for the blog and implement it from Tuesday. Drive traffic from social media”.
To explain, we created a blog site last week (you can check out the previous article to find the link to the blog) and asked to create graphic contents to promote the articles we uploaded on the blog last week. The second thing was to create a content calendar that we would execute for this current week meaning we had to look for new blog topics and create new articles to post for the blog. Lastly, we are to drive traffic to this blog from social media. These seem really easy but when we got the project topic, we were all puzzled, and everyone had different interpretations to it. Some team members stated that we were to create a calendar for our blog articles from the previous week, while others thought that we were to create fresh ones. Usually we will get to work immediately but when one does not understand the question, how do one pass the exam?
Writing new blog articles was not an option on the list at all when the content calendar talk popped up. Everyone was exhausted. We looked for the easy way out of the task as every normal person would and decided to use the former blog posts on the new calendar. Lol…. Call us ‘lazy bootcampers’ but that is what every normal person would do, after brainstorming consistently for 14 days.
Confusion in the air as the meeting on Tuesday commenced with the usual background noise. We went through three days of back-and-forth communication with numerous meetings involved. The team lead suggested to reach out to one of the facilitators in order to get clarity and that was the beginning of the slow race to the mistake.
The new information we got drew us deep into the well of confusion as we were told to create graphics not for the new blog posts nor social media but for the previous blog posts we have on the blog. Do you understand? If you don’t, welcome to the club. Moving forward, we started working on the graphics. First set that came in was enough to make your eyes sore. This made us realize that some of us had to understand how to make use of Canva within the limited period of the assignment. Canva tutorials started holding alongside the hunt for new blog topics and articles. Our confusion got settled after reaching out to the facilitator that assigned the task. Everyone eventually understood the concept. All we had to do was come up with a graphic design for our project from last week, and then work on fresh; blog articles, graphics, and a third-week calendar. After getting the hang of things, blog topics started flying around along with steamy news of a celebrity crush as a teammate was bent on writing about a recently discovered actor who was on almost everyone's lips.
We decided to distribute the work as usual: choose a topic, write about it, then create graphics designs for the topic. After that, we can use it to make our content calendar.
That was our decision as of Thursday till silence descended and nobody spoke for reasons that are still unknown. No one said anything. We had no idea what was going on with each other, but it could be anything—Christmas preparations included.
We came around to integrate our works after several attempts at communication. Meeting up with the deadline was not easy but we sacrificed our holiday. Even if it was too late, we had never been ones to back down. To convince Drey to accept our work which is long overdue, we would go so far as dressing up goofy and creating funny videos begging him to give us a chance.
Anyway, we pulled through and got beautiful graphics and captivating blog posts for you to read.
Find it here: