Diabo News

12 jan. 2008
Guest Lecture ‘Communications & Sports’

Let’s talk about Sports Journalism & Events Communications

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“I like to invite you for a guest lecture at the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden”, said Ute Vrijburg, former Executive Director of the European Hobie Cat Association. We used to work together on several Hobie Championships. Nowadays, she is employed by the Communication Department of this northern institute for higher education (Bachelor degree). One of her courses is Communications & Sports, given to international students. Ute asked me to talk about my profession as freelance sports journalist and about how the events communications work. Since I have always enjoyed the lectures based on true experiences, I found it an honour to present my own business to people with a whole career ahead of them.

I prepared a presentation for January 11th and mentioned several issues, such as: my background, work experience, how to build a business, my services, combinations, how do I work and what are the difficulties as a freelancer. Afterwards, we had a discussion about my work and approach. My story focuses on sailing, but in the end it works the same for any kind of sports. It's all about skills, knowledge, networking and PASSION. Hopefully, I offered them an interesting point of view.
 
01/11/2008