This week has been a crazy one...it started out great but that I came down with a terrible cold and ended up nearly losing my voice! I rarely get sick so coming down with the cold kept me from getting some of the things I needed to get done this week accomplished. Good news is that my voice is almost back still a little raspy but I am feeling much better.

I got started on work for the i-touch project I gathered a lot of content and I am currently working to put it all into the google docs group. Right now I have all the dining hall hours posted I was going to post the Tiger X times but then realized after making the excel sheet that those times will change next semester so they won't be accurate for the incoming freshman. By tonight I am hoping to get some e-mails out to some J school professors, Brady Deaton, and Gary Forsee etc... to set up a time to do some welcome videos.

As far as my dot. com shift went it was a little more crazy then normal. The reporters did a lot of things inaccurate in the posted of their images and content. We were able to fix them but Jason and I also found that the paid dot. com person was not given all of the information we were. For example she had posted some images to stories that had the KOMU logo on them because reporters didn't save images on their own. We realized that once receiving an e-mail from Jen but she had never been told not to do this before so she learned something and we were also able to go back and fix the images for the evening. The cool thing we got to do during our shift is that Jason and I created a flickr slideshow for Cassandra Novy's story about Josh Kezer the man who got out of prison after spending 16 years there. She had a lot of emotional and compelling video so we thought a slideshow would capture some of those moments and add to the story here is the link:

Josh Kezer A Free Man

Hoping to get a chance to work with flash next week and gather a lot of content for the i-touch project!

Jenn

Getting Excited for I-touch Project

At the end of the week I can say I was definitely ready for the weekend! Meeting with our group on Friday to talk about the I-touch project went well. I am really excited to work on the project and think the application we are creating will be really helpful for freshman. I would have loved to have had something like that when I came to Mizzou. I am still having trouble getting my i-touch to sync but was going to take it over to tiger tech Monday or ask Jen about it again. I will say though it really makes me want to save the funds and buy an i phone!

Im hoping to get a lot done on the project this week especially on Thursday...looking at the Google docs I think there is about two to three things I can complete before our meeting on Friday.

As far as my dot com shift went..it wasn't too eventful but I did work with a reporter to try to get more content out of her story that we could use for the web. She did a story about the Salvation Army and how they are having more people come in because of the current economic times. What was interesting about the story is that the director talked about how he thought the economic troubles could be eased if more people knew about the salvation army's services and used them more often. Since the reporter couldn't include all that information in her story we went ahead and put the full interview with the director on the web for people to watch. I also including pictures in the story (with better captions that were complete sentences :0) and I also put a tease in to the full video interview.

Here is the link:
Salvation Army Battles Economy

I edited a couple of other stories but that was the main story I worked on since there were only two reporters for the ten.

Looking forward to working on the i-touch project and hopefully using flikr next week!

Week 3..finally getting the hang of things!

I can believe it is already the third week of school... it means May, graduating, finding a job, and becoming a big girl are all near in the future! Makes me both excited and nervous...

Dot Com this week went great I am finally getting the hang out things and not having to double check to make sure I am posting things correctly. I worked this week to make sure none of my stories had

's, including pictures with all stories, and including captions. I had hopes to create a slide show or map something different than the usual for the web but the reporters stories on Wednesday didn't work for any of these endeavors... maybe next week! I told both the reporters I want to work on something like that with them so asked if they would keep web extras in the back of their mind while out reporting.

I posted a breaking news story for the first time this week about the Department of Revenue giving waives for fees associated with license offices in the areas that were hit by the ice storm. It was difficult to write because the jargon was incredibly unconversational and all I had was a press release. Overall thought I was successful though in making it easy for the average person to understand.. I also included photos of the ice storm with the story which made it that much more interesting! (And I put captions in.. I know Jen you are proud :))

Here are the links to the stories:

http://www.komu.com/satellite/SatelliteRender/KOMU.com/ba8a4513-c0a8-2f11-0063-9bd94c70b769/42ed5602-80ce-0971-002c-fbb36d04b1b0
--One thing I had trouble with was what exactly to put in the captions..I thought I could have done a better job with this I thought to much about what they were saying.

This is the breaking news story I posted:
http://www.komu.com/satellite/SatelliteRender/KOMU.com/ba8a4513-c0a8-2f11-0063-9bd94c70b769/446bc025-80ce-0971-0129-9f11aa400d58

http://www.komu.com/satellite/SatelliteRender/KOMU.com/ba8a4513-c0a8-2f11-0063-9bd94c70b769/4479fca1-80ce-0971-00eb-f9fdfe9dcc0a

Those are the main stories I worked on.. I also forgot to twitter on KOMU! Next week I want to make sure to post at least two things to twitter during my shift..

And it begins!

After the second week of working dot com and getting adjusted to everything I think I finally have the hang of it. Having the reporters write their own stories was helpful but the only problem was most of them were very unfamiliar with how to write a web story which caused the need for a lot of editing. I didn't work on a ton on web extras most of them were links but I did put a few photos up alongside stories. It is nice to know I am becoming a little more savvy on the internet! I posted an array of stories from job cuts to a new handicap playground being built in Holts Summit. Here is a story I wrote and posted about a bill that is going to try put doctors in more control of the prescription drugs they prescribe for patients.

http://www.komu.com/satellite/SatelliteRender/KOMU.com/ba8a4513-c0a8-2f11-0063-9bd94c70b769/1ecff898-80ce-0971-0074-277189088262

Here is another story I worked on about the first handicap accessible park being built in Mid-Missouri:

http://www.komu.com/satellite/SatelliteRender/KOMU.com/ba8a4513-c0a8-2f11-0063-9bd94c70b769/1feb064c-80ce-0971-013c-e92221986f88

My goal for my shift on Wednesday is I'm hoping to be able to work with a reporter to make an out of the box web extra, instead of just a link or pictures. I also want to start working on my resume tape this week and start narrowing down which clips I want and which ones I don't. Overall I am really getting the hang of things and enjoying the web..(and beginning to become addicted to twitter) :)