Slow Burn chronicles all the things Fire Hospital has in the works on any given day as we push to get this thing off the ground. Successes and triumphs, headaches and disappointments, whatever goes down you will hear about it here!
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Hey patients! With the first installment of Slow Burn, we’d just like to recap the insanely hectic but productive first 5 days of our existence. Evidently, we chose an interesting time to launch our operation. Whether it’s the historic revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, the unmitigated failure that is Charlie Sheen, or just the bizarre encounters in our everyday lives, there’s definitely a lot of craziness and #burning going on around the world.
That said, it has certainly been a challenge to find a balance for our activities: commenting on current events, managing our infrastructure, and developing our original content. There’s so much to do and we have so many ideas to develop, but we feel it’s undoubtedly beneficial to offer our unique commentary on things such as last night’s “Sheen’s Korner” Ustream catastrophe. If nothing else, it gets our name out there a little and helps to both define our perspective and clarify our approach. Our “Awkward Clip of the Day” (on facebook and twitter) has also helped to establish the general theme of the hilarious moments that we have come to appreciate and want to share.
Construction and customization for all of our social media tools has been time consuming and frustrating for sure, but ensuring a consistent look and feel for each platform is important to us. In addition, development for our legitimate site is underway! Although it’s progressing slowly, we know it’s going to take some time to get things set up.
In terms of original content, we don’t want to give away too much early on but we are working on segments that utilize text, voice, and video to best communicate our interactions and stories. One of the things to look for in the near future is the “Fire Hospital Glossary of Burning Terms,” a comprehensive list (with definitions and examples) of all the ludicrous words and phrases that we use in our everyday conversations. Gaining an understanding of those terms will be essential to figuring out what the hell we’re talking about in our stories.
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We’ve compiled a brief list of a few of our major accomplishments on each day:
· Day 1 (March 2, 2011)
o Twitter account created (twitter.com/FireHospital)
o Blogger account created (firehospital.blogspot.com)
o Facebook page created
· Day 2 (March 3, 2011)
o Youtube channel created (youtube.com/firehospital)
o 1st blog - “The Burn Ward is Open for Business!”
· Day 3 (March 4, 2011)
o Tweet reply from a radio station, our 1st cool mention! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=130467797024363&set=pt.130022957068847&theater
o 1st Youtube upload - Phaneuf and Komisarek Collide in Warmup – Leaf Fail!
o 1st Youtube subscriber
o 25 Facebook “likes”, page name created (facebook.com/FireHospital)
· Day 4 (March 5, 2011)
o 3rd blog – “@Charliesheen: WTF Was That”
· Day 5 (March 6, 2011)
o Slow Burn #1
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While the pace has been frantic, we’ve been really pleased with our growth in these last few days. We know everything can’t happen with a snap of our fingers, so we’re going to focus on going about our business one day at a time. It’s bound to be an interesting ride, and with any luck we’ll keep picking up steam. We here at Fire Hospital truly appreciate everyone who has taken the time to check out our blog and pages so far and we encourage you to not be strangers. Let us know what you want to see and tell us about your most awkward encounters! That’s all we’ve got for now but stay tuned, there’s some good stuff on the way!
Cheers
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