It's Almost Over

My time at InterMetro is almost over. However, I have been busy working on the survey results and literature. The other week I was allowed to sit in on the new web site design conference call. It was interesting to hear what the agency re-designing the website had to say, along with questions that they asked. It was great to be there because I have worked very hard to gather all the information from the survey to give the agency an idea what was going on. I am in my last week or so at InterMetro and plan to make the best out of my time there!

It's May

Yes it's May. The month I have been dreading this year, but also happy about at the same time. Graduation is coming closer and closer. Each day I work at Metro I feel more and more ready to join the real world. I love the feeling of working in an office setting. I however hope to be able to travel and be out of the office for parts of my days when I do have a real job. Today was a busy day. I had a few e-mails to answer to and such. I sent out the survey to a few more people. I needed to e-mail the marketing managers to discuss a project. Then was compiling research for the surveys that have been completed which took up most of my day today. I met with Darlene to discuss two PR pieces that needed to be sent out and they are done! That was my day today.

Where Does Time Go?!

Finally I am back at work, after break...but before break I was very busy working on flyers for the commercial department. They were all based on an inventory reduction sale. They will be going out to the sales representatives, dealers etc. Also I usually receive most of the PR pieces. I had a few I was working on. One was for the customer service department. They were having a grand feast on their third floor. I got to join in the fun, take a few pictures and grab some food! I put together a PR piece for the intranet. Next I have been communicating with Paul who is a GM for Metro down south. A few of his employees have won awards and I still am in the process of working on them. For the most part I have been busy working, but love doing so. Another project I have been continuing to work on consists of all the literature for the products. Today I will be organizing all the pieces into seperate binders to make life easier. That's all for now!

Update

This past week at work I have been working on a PR schedule for the department managers. I met with both Mike and Terry about their schedules and the products and publications they wanted for each. Following those two meetings I made it into an excel sheet coordinating it by month, trade show and publications. Soon I will be starting to work on more press releases for the trade shows. Along with the trade shows coming up in the next few months, I will get to see what exact prepartation needs to be done to get ready for one.

The survey for the website redesign is still underway. I have every industry on board with this now and have been checking the status and preparing a report on the findings.

A new week is about to start and as always I am looking forward to going back.

Busy Day

Thursday flew by at work. I continued to work on the website usability survey. I planned some meetings with the department managers to discuss some upcoming projects. Later on in the day from 2-4PM there was a presentation from DIGITAS a integrated marketing company. There pitch was focused on the re-design of the Metro website. I found the presentation very interesting and the 3 women knew there stuff! They have worked with GM and Samsung as they showed examples through out the presentation and went into more detail. I took down some notes and then later discussed after who would win the bid for the website. Soon enough it was time to go! I look forward to going back to work Tuesday

Catch Up Time

I have been a little behind in my blog! Intero Metro has been going great! I continue to learn more each and everyday. The week before I went on Spring Break, I was continuing to work on the website usability survey for each industry. Today I looked at the results for the commercial section of the survey. So far so good. I still need contacts to send the other industry survey outs, but I should have all the information by Thursday. After completing my PR piece and continued work on the survey a few more projects have been given to me. One will be involving the companies internet site. I will be helping formulate the re-design for employees to get a better feel of what really goes on at Metro! The site can include what's new, updates, an employee article and/or spotlight section. This is all in the work of course. Second another PR assignment where I need to meet with the department managers and find out what is going to be happening in the department for 5-6months. I scheduled meetings with each of the managers for next week. This upcoming Thursday I have a busy day planned...I'll write then!

Day 3

I came to my cubical to find my laptop! I was happy to finally have one so I could get started on some projects. I talked with Darlene and Lois on a project they thought I could work on. I started to work on market research for the new website design. I had to set up appointments with each industries manager to discuss details and needs or concerns they could have. I am getting used to Windows OutLook and figuring out all of the inbetweens as to what it can do. I realized it is great for setting up meetings and communicating very quickly. I came up with some questions and added the ones from a previous survey. I got to work on that right away. Following in that time frame I was asked by Joe to work on a PR piece. I of course was delighted and went upstairs to HR to find out more information from the assignment. I talked to Ellen and got the background story. The PR piece was to me on Matt who was promoted and came to Wilkes to train a sales team on a product called Flo for the Health Care Industry. I went and borrowed a camera and took a picture of the group. I went back down to my department and started on that a bit. Most of the day I was on my own, which I liked because I felt like a real working individual. I liked to independence and trust I was given to work on the assignments. Of course I had a few questions here and there but everyone is always there for me to get help. I am excited for my day tomorrow at work, I am always learning something new.

Day 2

Today was a great day at work, I will have my laptop on Tuesday so I can get to work. I got to meet other members of the marketing and customer service department. First I talked with Joe of course when I got in, and I got to go into a meeting with some of the marketing department on a conference call with the President Joe. It was interesting to be apart of the meeting and see what I could learn. From there I went to talk to Lois who is the head graphics designer and works with the media section of the department. We went over the Metrowork site, the website, One Point, literature, flyers, e-communications, Twitter, digital files, the online catalog, market research etc! I loved talkint to Lois and learning what she does and her background. She discussed taking me to the advertising agencies that they work with so I can talk to them and get a feel for what really goes on. That trip will most likely happen next Thursday. Next I met with Darlene who deals with PR an research. We talked about market research a little more and what I can contribute, such as doing research, contacting those who will be valuable in the survey process and finally making the survey happen by creating it. I will also be working on press releases for the department. We discussed more on e-communications and quickbase. Quickbase is more used for sales representatives and can be calcuated by market for example and there are a few other options as well. The President of the company can easily access what is going on. I also got to talk to Darlene about myself and learn about her past experiances as well. Lunch time came about and Darlene let me know how close we were to the mall! So i ate lunch and went to check the mall out. I of course went to JCPenney to do some research for Ad Comp. When I got back I got to up to customer service. I forgot her name, I will hopefully learn everyones names shortly. I was introduced to so many people today. I got to learn a little history about the company and was amazed to know it started in a loft in NY! Learning about customer service was interesting becasue it necessarily wasnt what I thought it was. A lot is involved and everyone in the department was welcoming and told me not to hisitate to come down and ask questions or just to say hi! I then went back to Joe we talked some more, which I don't mind becasue Joe is great to talk to and keeps the fun in work going. I am excited for next week when I finally have my laptop and get to meet more people and see what projects I can work on.

First Day

My first day consisted of myself visiting the two local sites of InterMetro. I went to the wrong one first! Navigation systems can not always be relied on! As soon as I walked in I felt comfortable. I waited in the lobby to meet Joe, and noticed the paintings on the wall. Joe came down to bring me to where I would be working. I found out the paintings, which were all over the building were painted by a famous painter. The building before the office was a gallery. Interesting fact I thought! Joe and I got some coffee and went to talk in his office. Joe and I spoke about the internship, theYankees, InterMetro and I gained advice from Joe about the job hunt. Most importantly I took that I should never give up on a job that I want and being persistent will get me there. After our conversation I was able to meet some employees in the Marketing Department and HR. Everyone was very nice and I am excited to go back on Thursday and get started!