Moving up in the world

Well, I’m certainly moving up in world, not up the corporate ladder, but physically up in our office, to the third floor.

My new office is the highest room in our entire building, right underneath the clock. So all day long I hear the ticking of the clock.

Second year at DRTM

Today is the second anniversary of my employment at Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing as the Web Development Co-ordinator.

It’s been a busy year,

Three new foreign language websites

French: rotoruaNZ.fr
Spanish: rotoruaNZ.es
German: rotoruaNZ.de

Additions to rotoruaNZ.com

Website widget: rotoruanz.com/resources/widget/
Trade website: rotoruaNZ.com/trade
Secure operator area: rotoruanz.com/operator/
Deals of the month: rotoruanz.com/deals/
Hugh Hefner April Fools campaign: rotoruanz.com/aprilfools

Famils and Rotorua experiences

Plenty of Luging with Joshua at Skyline Skyrides
12,000 ft Skydive
Melbourne Cup at Agroventures
Volcanic Air Safaris helicopter ride
Volcanic Air Safaris float plane ride
Rotorua Duck Tours ride

Theres plenty more in the pipeline for the upcoming year.

My 12,000ft Skydive

NOTE: View photos and video at the bottom of this page

Today I was lumped with the job of looking after six media delegates from around the world on a trip out to the Rotorua Airport for a complementary Skydive with N-Zone while they were in town for TRENZ ’08. A bit out of the usual job description for a humble Web Development Co-ordinator at Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing, but I was up for the challenge, and I thought it would be a good chance to spend a nice autumn day outside.

First Week at DRTM

Or Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing as the full name…

Well, it’s been an exciting week.
Monday was the first day of induction, where I reported to HR for my initial registration etc. Then myself and another new council staff employee were given an overview of the entire Rotorua District Council. It was then off to the Rotorua Tourism office, where I was given an overview of the office, met the team and ran through some of the basic systems in place. I then sat down with Sarah (who I was replacing) for an overview of the processes currently in place.
That pretty much lasted the rest of the week, just getting to grips with the new system, file structure and processes.
They have a network drive with a Terabyte of storage on it, with only 5GB of room left. Now that may not be much by today’s standards for some of you, but when you have to find one file within all that, it can get a little daunting.

I’m really looking forward to the challenge of revamping www.rotoruaNZ.com.
That will be one of my main initial tasks, along with updating all the listings on the website currently.

I’ve posted an image of my new business card and a couple of photos from my new office.