End of week 6

So this past week at the Business Incubator was a little more busy than usual. We had a couple of people sick because of the weather - but that's irrelevant. Matt sent me a couple links that he wanted me to use to put together a new feature to put on the website. I sort of remember him telling me about this assignment early on in the week and I was worried about it 1.) because I had forgotten how to post stuff to the website and 2.) because the lingo in these articles, dealing with one of the Graduate Tenant's new machines, was a little hard to read without my eyes glazing over. I didn't start cracking on it the day Matt told me about it because he told me right as I was about to leave, and I hate not being able to start something and really put effort into it. The next day I read over the three links he had sent me from various sites that were reporting on the new machine, and I ran into a problem - one of the sites, a news television site based out of Charleston, said at the bottom that the information within the article could not be, among other things, "rewritten". The last article I wrote the way Matt wanted me to, I made sure that if I used their wording, I cited the information and definitely gave links to where readers could refer to the original content. Matt was never intending me to write something fresh and new - or he wouldn't have sent the links he did. I was, however, still wary of what the website said, and he and I chatted about it on AIM (the chosen communication tool of the BI for when you are too lazy to stand up and ask a question), and he decided it was ok as long as I put "refer to HERE for more information", and made it blatantly obvious that I was not writing it myself, but that I was getting it from somewhere else. I don't know...I don't think I could do that as a job (I'm sure there's no such job in the world)...but I still feel weird about it, even though I cite. So anyway...after I wrote it up and edited it out a little bit, I fiddled with some titles, sent those to Matt (because with a place like the BI I don't think a cut and dried title is appropriate since it's such a "hip" place, but going overly artsy isn't their style either) ... and somehow by mistake came across the website editing tool. I posted and saved so Matt could look it over, and he then came over to remind me of a few little things...he wasn't mad I had forgotten, but I will sincerely try to remember next time...repetition is the key, I think. And that was that.

Another project that came up the same day - only this one was from Dusty, my boss boss. Matt actually came to talk to me about it first, said he didn't really know anything about it. The next day, Dusty comes in and tells me he wants me to do this, but says he talked to Matt about it and that Matt would have more information for me. Then Matt is sick for two days. Finally Dusty comes back and tells me he wants a report of the past year, what all the Business Incubator employees have been doing, to show HIS boss. (and that's not tenants of the BI, but people actually working for the BI itself, like Dusty and Matt). He says maybe I could write up a survey and email it to them, Jo, and Sarah (the four people he wanted included) and we could all have a meeting to discuss what they felt needed to be in this report. I sent out my version to the four of them last week, and only Jo - the accountant - has said she will try to get it back to me soon. No one else has said anything about it. I don't know, it kind of sounded like a fun thing to do - he said that there really were no guidelines as nothing like this has ever been in place before. He said he just thought they really needed some sort of - record of what they had been doing the past year for his boss.

So that's where I am right now. Things are going swimmingly. Everyone is still nice. Have a good one.