Week 12, Fresh Start!

Week of 3/22-3/26, 2010

Tuesday 8:30-12:30=4 hours

Thursday 9:00-11:45=2.75 hours

Friday 8:30-11:00=3 hours

Hours left for credit 106-9.25=96.75

Today is a fresh start for me, I am done with the Advanced Academics project, and I have not gotten any feedback yet, everything seemed to be fine. It is a fresh start becuase I am getting ready to start on my new project. Office Manager, Chelsea Herring is now in charge of the interns, because Deb is gone on maternity leave. Chelsea started me out on a new project. For this project I am doing some research on Advertising forums. I am looking for any sites where people may go to talk about any advertising at all, especially our competitors. The objective is to find out what people are discussing in the industry, and if there is anything we can learn, from these forums.

I have started this project, with not much luck, I have found some popular websites that show creatives and have people commenting on the creatives. I really need to find something that goes a little more in depth than just comments on pics or videos, to get some insight from other professionals in the industry.

Week 11, Spring Break, Finally!

March 15-19, 2010

Monday 12.30-5.30=5 hours

Tuesday 9-5.30 (30 min lunch)=8 hours

Wednesday 8.30-4,30 (30 min lunch)=7.5 hours

Thursday 12.30-5.30= 5 hours

Friday 8.30-5.00 (30min Lunch)=8 hours

Total for the week =33.5

Hours left for credit=139.5-33.5=106

It's Spring Break this week so I am making up some hours, this week I came in everyday. I finally finished up my Advanced Academics outlines. That was a long project, I would say the worst part about it though, is the document finishing. Formatting is a key part in the final outcome. It took me so long to get the whole document to all have the same formatting. The whole document was 23 pages, but since I made three outlines, one for each county, when I combined them the format was all wrong. On top of that the outlines had tables in them, so when you copy an paste to all different formats, all the tables shifted and it was a mess cleaning everything up. I could have spent days formatting, re-formatting, then re-formatting, the re-format, I kept changing things around, but Allison said just stick to one and run with it, because Janet the Accounts Service Manager will look over it, and may want it all re-formatted totally different anyway. Allison said that in her last project she spent three hours at home, re-formatting her document, and it drove her crazy.

This is another lesson learned about the Accounts Services, I could toil over something trivial and circumstantial, but in the end, somebody above me may want me to re-do all of it anyway. That's the business ladder, I guess thats what they call swimming with the sharks, and climbing the ladder. It's not so much about what you want, it's all bout what somebody else wants. It's just my job to figure that out, and try to meet those needs.

So the latter part of the week Advanced Academics, is sending out some marketing packages to their main customers, its a little portable lunch cooler with some flyers. The thought behind the cooler is that you can take your cooler to outside events, or to the beach, while still attending class at Advanced Academics. Meaning you can be laying on the beach, getting a tan, eating your lunch with the Advanced Academics cooler, and taking your classes online. I helped prepare the packages, just doing some busy work, till the next project comes up.

That's it for this week, I didn't realize how worn out I feel at the end of the day. Since I have been coming in some full days, going at it all day non-stop really drains me. The best part is that it is a good draining. The worst part is that I don't even get to enjoy my last Spring Break weekend, because I have projects that I have to work on for school, due on monday. I'll be back next week!

Week 10, Almost there!

March 8-12, 2010

Tuesday 9.30-1.30=4 hours

Hours left for credit 143.5-4=139.5

So as I said in last week's blog I am working on my other outlines in Alachua County, and in Lee County, Florida. I was having trouble finding the ame info as in the other outline on the census bureau website, but I finally got it figured out. I should be able to knock these outlines out pretty quickly, or at least faster than the Broward County Outline.

I did not come to my internship on Thursday or Friday of this week. Thursday I had an appointment that prevented me from coming up, and Friday I had a midterm. Next week on Spring Break I am going to be coming in more hours to get these outlines finished and to get started on some new work. I am almost done with this task, I can't wait to start a new challenge.

Week 9, Coming Round the Bend

Week of March 1-5, 2010

Tuesday 8.30-1=4.5 hours

Hours left for credit 155-4.5=150.5

So short but sweet, I have a lot going on, I finished up my Broward county outline for Advanced Academics. Allison was thoroughly impressed. She said that she was going to proofread the material to her liking and when i come in on Thursday we will go over it, I will make any changes to her liking, and we will then transfer it to formal, Visual Image, letterhead. After that I will move on to finishing the other two counties, Alachua and Lee.

Thursday 8.30-1=4.5 hours

Friday 8.30-11=2.5 hours

Hours left for credit 150.5-7=143.5

Started on Alachua County for Advanced Academics. It's taking me awhile to find the same information. I went to the census bureau website to find all the demographic information, but I cannot find the same spreadsheets that I found for Broward county which gives me the same information, that I need, to put this outline to keep all of them consistent for presentation. There are so many different types of spreadsheets that it is hard to filter through them and find the same one. This incident is a learning experience for me because I need to make note of what I did to get to the spreadsheet in the first place with the Broward County outline, then i wouldn't have to waste time figuring out the steps I took before to find the information.