Jenny must have subconsciously picked up on my complaints of verification because she tasked me with the duty of writing dining guides. One part of me was excited to write because I am an English major and spent the last three years writing every type of paper under the sun. On the other hand, I was nervous because I am not familiar with writing for a magazine and after three years of writing, not super confident in my ability to write. However, I kept positive thoughts, and as an intern, there was no reason why I should be perfect at it first try. Jenny tasked me with writing about eighteen restaurants around Phoenix. I had to write about the food, ambiance, or anything new or different about this restaurant while keeping it under 75 words.
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Board meetings were every Monday and much of my time would be doing link or fact verification for different parts of the magazine, I barely proofed articles or worked with InDesign anymore. Eventually, the constant verification drove me insane, and I was beginning to dislike my internship. I asked my new editor, Iris, if she could give me any other tasks to do. She understood that verification is boring, and would try to find something else for me to do. After another week of verification, I was beginning to give up, but Iris asked me if I was interested in working with Valley Guide’s social media page. Of course, I did not have a huge interest, but anything other than fact verification was great in my book. My task was to write a few social media posts for specific events happening around Phoenix. They had to be fun, and witty, which was a little challenging for me because I am not creative in any way. For example, I wrote about the Final Four in Phoenix and created a post listing the teams and asking followers who they were voting for. Iris was impressed with my work and asked me to complete another week, except I got to choose which events to write about. I do not know much about events happening in Phoenix and it required some research on my part. One of my posts was about a shark exhibit at the Arizona Science Center with the caption: “Dive into this experience with sharks, no …show more content…
Digital insight is difficult to explain; I essentially looked up the statistics for a certain magazine’s most google search. If people were searching outdoors in Phoenix, it would appear on this excel sheet. Afterward, I would take all the data (I had to do this for all four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall), and put it in one excel sheet. Then, I would look up the magazine’s Facebook and Instagram page and determine which ones had the most interaction with people and put it in the same excel sheet. Once I input all the data for the digital insight, Kathy wanted me to look at the data and choose the most common google searches. The data had about 10,000 searches for each season, but it was easy because people search for the same things in Phoenix: “things to do,” “shopping,” “restaurants,” “outdoors,” and “weather.” The task had a lot of numbers and data, which I was not use to, but it gave me more experience in using excel, which is something I could take with me at my next
Board meetings were every Monday and much of my time would be doing link or fact verification for different parts of the magazine, I barely proofed articles or worked with InDesign anymore. Eventually, the constant verification drove me insane, and I was beginning to dislike my internship. I asked my new editor, Iris, if she could give me any other tasks to do. She understood that verification is boring, and would try to find something else for me to do. After another week of verification, I was beginning to give up, but Iris asked me if I was interested in working with Valley Guide’s social media page. Of course, I did not have a huge interest, but anything other than fact verification was great in my book. My task was to write a few social media posts for specific events happening around Phoenix. They had to be fun, and witty, which was a little challenging for me because I am not creative in any way. For example, I wrote about the Final Four in Phoenix and created a post listing the teams and asking followers who they were voting for. Iris was impressed with my work and asked me to complete another week, except I got to choose which events to write about. I do not know much about events happening in Phoenix and it required some research on my part. One of my posts was about a shark exhibit at the Arizona Science Center with the caption: “Dive into this experience with sharks, no …show more content…
Digital insight is difficult to explain; I essentially looked up the statistics for a certain magazine’s most google search. If people were searching outdoors in Phoenix, it would appear on this excel sheet. Afterward, I would take all the data (I had to do this for all four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall), and put it in one excel sheet. Then, I would look up the magazine’s Facebook and Instagram page and determine which ones had the most interaction with people and put it in the same excel sheet. Once I input all the data for the digital insight, Kathy wanted me to look at the data and choose the most common google searches. The data had about 10,000 searches for each season, but it was easy because people search for the same things in Phoenix: “things to do,” “shopping,” “restaurants,” “outdoors,” and “weather.” The task had a lot of numbers and data, which I was not use to, but it gave me more experience in using excel, which is something I could take with me at my next