For the second year in a row I attended the Zonta Club of Mount Isa’s Women of Achievement awards, a night which is proudly sponsored by the North West Star.
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Last year I had the honour of presenting the main award to mining engineer Rhonda O’Sullivan but this year I was behind the scenes with my notepad and camera reporting the scene for the Star.
I must make an apology for a brain fade at the business end of the night.
I was determined to broadcast the announcement of the winner of the main award on Facebook Live and started going live a minute or so before the announcement. Normally I can see on my phone our audience slowly building up and I anticipated a lot of people would want to see this. So I was mildly panicked to notice that no-one seemed to be tuning in as the big moment arrived.
Then when a couple of my personal friends signed in I realised my mistake – I was doing a live broadcast on my personal Facebook page not the Star’s page.
Much to my friends’ bemusement no doubt, I hurriedly logged out and started a live broadcast from the North West Star page – just in the nick of time to hear the announcement that Southern Gulf NRM chair Megan Munchenberg was a deserved winner of the award.
I pass on my congratulations to Megan.
But any hope she or her friends and family might later relive the moment through my live broadcast were dashed by my second mistake later in the night.
Having finished the broadcast, I put away my phone while ignoring a message it was sending me.
When I finally looked at the message just before I was about to go to bed later that night, I read “do you want to delete the video?”.
Maybe it was tiredness setting in but I assumed it was the earlier incorrect video I’d filmed on my personal Facebook it was talking about so I stupidly typed in yes.
Almost immediately I realised my mistake that I had deleted the North West Star Facebook live video, gone forever.
Anyway my apologies to Megan and our viewers who may have been wondering what had happened.
I’d sack myself only I wouldn’t find someone silly enough to replace me! DB