Yeah this week for some reason i was late both on Monday and Thursday, my alarm didn’t wake me up. My supervisors didn’t even mind, I also had Slack messaged them that i was running late so maybe that’s why they weren’t a upset about it.This week i worked on some more blog graphics for the next upcoming post on social media. i’ve gotten a lot faster at making them and not over thinking them as well.

One of the other interns did a small presentation this week on Snapchat and should nonProfits use it. I actually missed it but my supervisors had put it up on Pariscope ( another social media tool) so i was still able to see it. In the end of her presentation the conclusion was that nonprofits should not use Snapchat, because there is no way of tracking the interactions on it (aside from who views it).

Ann and i also set up to have a meeting next monday on my evaluation. I am excited about it just to see what she has to say about me and i am scared because i feel like i could’ve done more.

This week at my internship we had a team meeting. They told me I didn’t have to go since I wasn’t an actual staff member, but that I was invited. They didn’t really tell me much about it but I assumed it was going to be on how the company was doing.  I arrived at my internship at about 1130 am, the meeting was at 12 and I surprised my supervisor Ann.  They had already ordered lunch and forgot I was actually going to attend so they didn’t order me any lunch. Which was fine with me, because I wasn’t expecting them to anything in the first place. Ann insisted to go get something and even gave me the company card!  I was extremely surprised because they were getting me lunch especially since Dumbo is really expensive ( eight dollars a grill chicken and tomato sandwich -__- ) and because they trusted me with the company card.

i left and went to a few stores to see what I wanted, I ended  up getting a chicken sandwich for about eight bucks. I ran to the building and had to go to the 9th floor in a separate building that connects through an air bridge. I finally get into the meeting room and  they had already started so it was a little awkward interrupting them to get in the room.

My sandwich was a mess but tasted really good, everything tastes better when it’s free. The meeting was a ‘quarterly report” on goals that Whole Whale had set up from themselves.  A lot of the goal were on the companies they work for (all non-profits) Like The century foundation, Breakthrough and PowerPoetry  Some of the goals were did the website redesign help the organization gain more followers, or did the way they set up the google adwords work for that organization work. Most if the goals were achieved by them and some weren’t because the company budget was to small or the organization did not stay in contact with Whole Whale.

Then they began Discussing about the money they’re putting in and getting out. They were certainly not doing bad but they said they could be doing a lot better. Plus with the three new companies they got this past month things should be looking up for WholeWhale. During the meeting everyone was encouraged to ask questions or anything they had in mind. One of the questions asked were how come we dont just let go our ties with the least lucrative companies and fully focus on the other bigger companies that are much more lucrative. Since they are taking up out time and we could be doing more for them. George responded by saying, He feels loyal to those companies that stood by him and trusted him when he was starting out . He wants to continue helping those organization out, until WholeWhale has nothing else it can give it, Not the other way around.

This week was pretty basic, nothing much really happened at my internship. I did finally finish my Infographic, it took me longer than I expected but I did it. Pros about it, I think I looks pretty cool and something i definitely want to add into my portfolio. Cons, I struggled alot with it, i wish i would’ve finished sooner so i could’ve done something else. My supervisor Ann says it alright, next time i’ll be faster. I also chopped up the infographic into 6 different blocks and placed them into some templates (using canva) so they could be used on social media. I made the templates too so that also took some time.

Aside from that this week i didn’t do anything else. As a team we started using slack. Slack is like a group chat but for companies.  You can make categories where the whole team sees the comments being made and  you have a direct chat option. I’m still not 100% sure on how to use it because i’ve only had it for four days but, it seems very useful.

This week i continued the design on the Social media infographics. I feel like I’m almost done. I’ve gotten it approved twice, which tells me that i am headed in the right direction. I still feel like there is something missing.  The whole point of the infographic is to have more people sign up to take their online social media class. They don’t want to be very obvious with that but in the end of the graphic they want to suggest it. Ann is always looking at the small details that I overlook sometimes and she sees things in a creative way much quicker too. Some things i overlooked were the company colors and some stats that didn’t make sense.

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During the week my supervisor and i were reviewed by someone from BTTIP. The review was about what I am learning and what i’ve been doing. I was honest and spoke about how at first i was extremely nervous but now i feel comfortable.  I also mentioned how almost every week I’m given a new resource that I can use somewhere else in my design or career also how I’m encouraged to ask questions and ask my other co-workers. Ann also spoke about me and pretty much said very nice things.

On a sidenote I can’t believe my internship is halfway thru. hope wherever I end up next in my career the environment will be similar.

So this week has been a bit stressful at my internship, because i have been assigned to make an infographic on how Nonprofits use social media. At first i honestly thought it was going to be much easier because infographics look very simple and easy. But I quickly learned that it’s not like that. There is a ton of raw information that i had to look for and pick out what i can use. My supervisor Ann sent me some links and some information that our company had done in the past.

Once i found all the stats that i needed i went over it with Ann, we Broke it down into four parts, what social media outlets are Nonprofits using, What’s the social media landscape looking like,why some nonprofits aren’t really using social media, and what can Nonprofits use to make social media easier on them.  Once i locked this down I began to finally make the infographic on Illustrator. It was taking me a while to get it, mainly because of all the data that’s suppose to go into it and not knowing how to creatively show it. Ann saw that i was having trouble with it and showed me to this amazing website called Piktochart.com that has all these preset templates of charts and graphs for infographics.  “You don’t have to reinvent the wheel if you’re trying to get it, you can just use it” is what Ann told me. So before the end of the day on thursday i did one because i was still trying to learn how to use it but i think it came out okay then friday I did another one and it’s looking better. I was a bit frustrating throughout the week because i wanted to get it done faster but i couldn’t to impress my supervisor.

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