My hours this week were:
Monday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-12:30pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 14 hours
Total hours is 91 hours.
Where has the time gone? This week flew by and the next 2 weeks I will be out of the office due to church camp at Fairmount! This week I just kept trucking. Sometimes it seems like I am not doing a whole lot- but really, its just that everything takes FOREVER to finish because it has to go through editing, get approval, ect ect and so I am always waiting on someone else for information, editing, or the go ahead. I did get some of my field updates done this week! I did some edits on the LeRoy story and started another Heroes of the Faith article. I finished the Hungary Home English Clubs and English Camps update. I made progress on the update for Kenya Highlands Evangelical University, but am still waiting on hearing from the university for more information.
This week I got to sit in on a production meeting for my department. Other than myself and the other intern, our department has had 2 staffing changes since I arrived. Joe was hired as the office manager and Adam as the graphic designer. They talked through a lot of protocol and discussed the best way to do things. It was interesting because there was a little tension between Adam, a young new professional, and Joyce, an older lady who is one of our editors. I think when it comes to technology; you have to be careful about where everyone is at in the learning process. Overall, they handled their differences well and Kristi did a good job facilitating. It was good she brought everyone together for a meeting to get it out instead of people all talking one on one.
I’m still loving the people I am around. I am learning a lot about office work and just making it fun while still being productive. They are a fun bunch of people and it is fun getting to know them all.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
week 5
My hours this week were:
Monday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 15.5 hours
Total hours is 77 hours.
This week I worked Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday due to a church trip to Pokagon on Tuesday. Monday I was very productive. I heard back from LeRoy which was exciting, but I couldn’t stop to work on that story until after I did a lot of other work. I got a lot of the final editing done on the internship material. The editing process is pretty drawn out- but it is good to get used to waiting on other people because no matter what our jobs are in the future we will have things going on that we can’t keep doing until we hear back from someone. After the internship stuff I worked very diligently on the e-mail receipts to the donors. Over all there were 3 regular receipts and 20 receipts specified to certain countries. This took a lot of time because I had to research each country to know what was going on there with WGM and then summarize it into a short and concise paragraph.
Wednesday I did some odd and end things but mostly worked on writing the rough draft of the LeRoy story for Heroes of the Faith. I felt a lot of pressure writing the story because I want to do justice to this man’s life because it has definitely been lived serving God. I finished the draft and it was WAAAYYY over my word count, so I have done a lot of edits on it myself already.
Thursday was slow. I am just waiting a lot. I edited the LeRoy story again and sent it to him for approval. I wrote the content for the brochure for the internship material, but that really didn’t take long. But mostly everything I am doing right now is pending on other people. The missionaries in Hungary who I contacted 5 weeks ago, FINALLY responded to me. So with that new information I was able to update the material for the website. I am still waiting to hear from the other missionaries I have contacted. But waiting I guess is good. I will start another Heroes of the Faith story as I wait for my stories to get edited and what not. I also am working on some WGM fact sheet papers for this cute little packet thing.
I’m still really enjoying myself and enjoying the people I work with! Liz and I decided everything Thursday we should get milkshakes…..that’s either a fantastic idea- or a terrible one. I’ll let you know!
Monday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 15.5 hours
Total hours is 77 hours.
This week I worked Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday due to a church trip to Pokagon on Tuesday. Monday I was very productive. I heard back from LeRoy which was exciting, but I couldn’t stop to work on that story until after I did a lot of other work. I got a lot of the final editing done on the internship material. The editing process is pretty drawn out- but it is good to get used to waiting on other people because no matter what our jobs are in the future we will have things going on that we can’t keep doing until we hear back from someone. After the internship stuff I worked very diligently on the e-mail receipts to the donors. Over all there were 3 regular receipts and 20 receipts specified to certain countries. This took a lot of time because I had to research each country to know what was going on there with WGM and then summarize it into a short and concise paragraph.
Wednesday I did some odd and end things but mostly worked on writing the rough draft of the LeRoy story for Heroes of the Faith. I felt a lot of pressure writing the story because I want to do justice to this man’s life because it has definitely been lived serving God. I finished the draft and it was WAAAYYY over my word count, so I have done a lot of edits on it myself already.
Thursday was slow. I am just waiting a lot. I edited the LeRoy story again and sent it to him for approval. I wrote the content for the brochure for the internship material, but that really didn’t take long. But mostly everything I am doing right now is pending on other people. The missionaries in Hungary who I contacted 5 weeks ago, FINALLY responded to me. So with that new information I was able to update the material for the website. I am still waiting to hear from the other missionaries I have contacted. But waiting I guess is good. I will start another Heroes of the Faith story as I wait for my stories to get edited and what not. I also am working on some WGM fact sheet papers for this cute little packet thing.
I’m still really enjoying myself and enjoying the people I work with! Liz and I decided everything Thursday we should get milkshakes…..that’s either a fantastic idea- or a terrible one. I’ll let you know!
Friday, June 3, 2011
week 4 article
Oh here is the link to one of my short articles I have done!
http://www.wgm.org/page.aspx?pid=6871
http://www.wgm.org/page.aspx?pid=6871
Thursday, June 2, 2011
week 4
My hours this week were:
Tuesday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 15.5 hours
Total hours is 61.5 hours.
How am I already in week 4 of this internship?! It has flown by and I am still enjoying it very much! This week centered around quite a few projects. I am still working on my Heroes of the Faith article (that’s the one you work on every time everything else slows down because it doesn’t have a due date). So I finished my research and contacted LeRoy and were in the process of an e-mail interview about his experiences in Bolivia.
The internship packets are still rolling. Can I just say the Desktop Publishing DID NOT prepare me to actually use indesign and photoshop in a professional manner? It has been a pain- but luckily online tutorials are easy to find and follow. So a goal for this summer on my own time has become to practice indesign, photoshop, and illustrator. The packets and papers have gone in for initial content edit. Editing is a long process but I think I have been pretty efficient so far in getting things done in a timely manner.
A new project this week has been writing e-mail receipt templates for people who donate money to WGM. Where the internship packets are more promotional, these e-mail receipt letters are a great pr tool for maintaining positive relationships between WGM and donors. I had to write the e-mails so they were thankful, encouraging, promotional, and functional. There were 4 different letter templates. I finished 3. The fourth is one for each different country people might donate to, so there are actually about 15 or so I have to do, but its just a paragraph different for each one. So that is what I am currently working on.
All in all I have been researching, promoting, and maintaining relationships- which is great experience for me!
Tuesday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 15.5 hours
Total hours is 61.5 hours.
How am I already in week 4 of this internship?! It has flown by and I am still enjoying it very much! This week centered around quite a few projects. I am still working on my Heroes of the Faith article (that’s the one you work on every time everything else slows down because it doesn’t have a due date). So I finished my research and contacted LeRoy and were in the process of an e-mail interview about his experiences in Bolivia.
The internship packets are still rolling. Can I just say the Desktop Publishing DID NOT prepare me to actually use indesign and photoshop in a professional manner? It has been a pain- but luckily online tutorials are easy to find and follow. So a goal for this summer on my own time has become to practice indesign, photoshop, and illustrator. The packets and papers have gone in for initial content edit. Editing is a long process but I think I have been pretty efficient so far in getting things done in a timely manner.
A new project this week has been writing e-mail receipt templates for people who donate money to WGM. Where the internship packets are more promotional, these e-mail receipt letters are a great pr tool for maintaining positive relationships between WGM and donors. I had to write the e-mails so they were thankful, encouraging, promotional, and functional. There were 4 different letter templates. I finished 3. The fourth is one for each different country people might donate to, so there are actually about 15 or so I have to do, but its just a paragraph different for each one. So that is what I am currently working on.
All in all I have been researching, promoting, and maintaining relationships- which is great experience for me!
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