So I've officially been an intern at the West Virginia University Business Incubator now for a week (how exciting). It's really..not what I thought it was going to be at all (I always think things are going to be much, much worse than they really are). Anywho, pretty much everyone I work with is really easy to get along with. The first couple days were rather easy as I was just getting used to my workspace and proper protocol for things I needed to know/do in different situations. I actually walked in in the middle of the week and was told I had my first meeting with a tenant (meaning someone who works with a business that the BI is working with) and I'm not sure how in detail I'm supposed to get into this blog, so I guess I won't go into who the tenant was (maybe let me know if you want me to go into more specifics, or if I should?) but basically he was wondering about my technology skills - if I had any idea about html, what experience I had with dealing with making webpages, that sort of thing. He said he needed someone to help him sound better (to which I replied that that was sort of what I did...but that I was more into just editing). He said if I did end up working with him, we would work solely through GoogleDocs, which I have no real experience with (however I told him I learn quickly). My boss at the BI said to let him know if I thought I could help this guy out or not...because he didn't want all my time jeopardized with just one tenant when I had general BI stuff to work on as well as things for other tenants, should the need arrise. I gave the guy my email and he said he'd send me some stuff to look over, to see if I was into doing it because from the way he pitched the job to me I couldn't really tell if I would be able to help him as a PWE person or not (Multimedia writing, yes...but idk) and he still hasn't gotten back to me yet.
So...is this the right format? Just...what I've done in the course of a week? Oh and I spent a considerable amount of time on Locus, which is the BI newsletter, editing that. That was fun..and I'm not really done yet.
More later!
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First, feel free to provide specific names of people and organizations if you're comfortable doing that in this forum. I think that in many case doing so will prompt you to provide other relevant details about the people involved, whereas sticking at the general level of "this person" and "that person" can sometimes lead you to not prioritize providing specific details in your descriptions.
ReplyDeleteSecond, embrace Google Docs! It's a very simple yet very useful tool for collaborating on writing projects. One of you gets a document started on Google Docs, invites the other to participate, and then you can both work on the document there on the same webpage without having to send attachments back and forth.
Third, you raise an important point here about needing to find a way to manage the competing demands and competing projects you face at the BI. Regular communication with your supervisor is certainly one way to be clear about what projects to prioritize, how much time you'll need to devote to each project, etc.