Monday: With my boss out of the office, I got the chance to kick back and relax. I did nothing and I just hung out all day. Well, that was a complete joke. I spent the day exporting video and working with Final Cut Pro. I had a bunch of videos from the previous week to digest and that meant wading through compression and audio clips. It also time to prepare for the big relaunch of National Journal coming up this fall and getting up to speed on everything consumed my Monday, and pretty much the rest of my week.
Tuesday: Terry Michael Day! This Tuesday Terry Michael hosted a class for us on strategic communications. This was interesting because it was essentially media of politics, something I know quite a bit about already and find fascinating. We watched a few epic campaign commercials, and I think my favorite is still the "I like Ike" commercial. Its just so catchy. I then headed downstairs to work. Today was the first day in a row of html crash course. I spent the afternoon working up how one might create an infobox for the website. It was such a pain, but my html skills are much improved after only a few days.
Wednesday: This was a pretty routine day, and I can't complain about that. I did not get much sleep the night before though and so a lot of hot chocolate was consumed because of it. I did, however, spend much of the day working on videos and stories. I also learned how to create stories for multiple content management systems. Wednesday is also magazine preparation day.
Thursday: Thursdays have become my busiest day hands down. I start the day off with a Terry Michael lecture. This was a pollster who works with businesses and nonprofits, not campaigns or candidates. He spoke about what makes a good poll, how research is conducted, and how to figure out if your poll is a good test. After this, I headed downstairs for magazine Thursday. Today, I pretty much did most of the magazine landing page by myself. I figured out how to piece them together and where to place a story. It was actually 3/4 of the way done and then the system crashed. I had to start over completely and redo things. I was not a happy camper in the least. But I think doing it over gave me some practice which is always handy. Also did some research on breaking news emails and now have an inbox inundated with them.
Friday: Today's task was to upload videos and get audio ready to be put into iTunes. I also had a great day as far as figuring out some good html info. We have a new person in our office, Ken, who just moved over from CongressDaily and he taught me about a div tag. It allows you to constrict the size of a box or text. It was fabulous and a great tool. It allowed me to resolve my issues I encountered earlier in the week with creating a box.
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