Contextual Studies - Guest Lecture: Hollie Bennet

Hollie Bennet is a media and community manager for PlayStation UK. It was really clear to how passionate she was about her jobs and about games themselves. She is very charismatic, enthusiastic, approachable and experienced. which is awfully handy for her job role.

She helps to promote games through events (she once suggested bungee jumping for an event), social media and press releases. A part of her job is she speaks to the gaming community via Twitter and YouTube (PlayStation Access, which she is video editor and member of), which she'll respond to comment, as well as blocking horrible and negative comment. As this will affect PlayStation UK's image.

But before she worked at PlayStation UK, she worked at Bandai Namco and Destrutoid. But what's even more impressive than that, is before she enter the gaming industry, she use to be a mid wife.

What I've learned from her that it's very important to manage the community (she used mint in a herb garden as an analogy for this), talk to the community, media is very important and be charismatic.

Overall, I absolutely enjoyed her guest lecture and found it exceptionally fascinating

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(Image frome: https://twitter.com/hollieb)