Daily Journal

• 5/11 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • On my first day, I was given training courses to familiarize myself with the applications used by the Marcom Office. The first one I worked my way through was for Asana. I learned about how the site is used for product management and the different ways teams can use it to work through projects and tasks. When I worked through all of the topics, I registered for a webinar to finish my training on Wednesday. I then began reviewing articles from some of the other sites they use regularly.

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• 5/12 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I continued to work through training articles for MediaGraph and familiarized myself with the site's layout. I looked at exposure and how they use that site. I also worked on getting my Asana Foundations certification, which I finished at the end of the day. This included a few additional training courses in the workings of Asana for project managers and team members.

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• 5/13 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • At 9, I had a meeting with my internship supervisor, Nikki Knox, to get me acquainted with the way they use Asana and Media Graph within the Marcom office. Brian Henery, who is a Multimedia Producer, joined us and gave me more guidance on the usage of Media Graph and the things I will be doing on that site throughout my internship. We worked through image tagging and how to add photos to collections. Nikki also gave me some more tasks to do, like adding dates and events to the editorial calendar, image tagging, moving images in and out of the public gallery, reviewing admission pages, and finding content for the school's social media pages. After our meeting, I listened to my Asana webinar and then worked on tagging some images and adding stuff to the editorial calendar for the rest of the day.

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• 5/14 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today, I worked on going through more images in Media Graph. I worked on tagging photos as well as removing some from the public gallery. I also started researching social media ideas for the new College of Osteopathic Medicine to help give their office some guidance when they get up and running.

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• 5/15 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  • I took half a day today, so I only worked 4 hours. I worked on more image tagging and sorting for the majority of the morning. I also created images for an Instagram post for the school’s page that included some images from commencement.

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• 5/18 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I started my day by getting the O-drive for the Marketing and Communications office set up on my computer. After that, I started adjusting some of the letterheads as requested by some of the departments. I worked on these throughout the day, as well as adding some more dates to the editorial calendar. I was able to edit all of the requested letterheads by the end of the day.

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• 5/19 - 8 am-4:30 pm - 1 hour lunch - 7 hrs

  • Today, I did some research on social media ideas for the university page and saved the links to Asana. I also edited the letterheads from yesterday with some changes at the department's request. I also worked on Mediagraph for a little bit.

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• 5/20 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I worked on social media posts that were assigned to me from the list I made. This included reviewing photos to match colors for my “Color Palette” post, which featured university colors. I also started putting together a post based on IUP traditions.

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• 5/21 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I started my day by continuing to work on the traditions post and looking for photos from past events. I had a check-in meeting at 9:30 with my supervisor, Nikki, and the Executive Director of Marketing, Molly. We touched base on the projects I am working on, as well as getting a few more to start. The rest of the day, I finished finding photos for the traditions post and finished putting it together.

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• 5/22 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today I worked primarily on coming up with new designs for the photo signs that they use at some university events. Came up with a few different designs to review with one of the graphic designers next week. I finished up the day by finding some more social media ideas for the College of Osteopathic Medicine and saving them.

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• 5/26 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I started today by organizing some of the post ideas before I met with one of the graphic designers, Jocelyn. She walked me through some foundations of design and how to start creating signs and posts to fit more into the University’s brand. She gave me some feedback on the stuff I created last week, pointers on things to change, and some guidance on where to start with designing with more intention. I spent the rest of the day working on the signs and pointers that she gave me.

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• 5/27 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  • Today I worked on finishing the signs that Jocelyn told me to finish for our next meeting. For the rest of the morning, I started researching ideas and edits to help make a post that I’m working on fit the brand better and to improve my design skills.

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• 5/28 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • This morning, I worked on finding more ideas and creating some design plans for the post I’ve been working on. At 11, I had my weekly meeting with Nikki and Molly to check up on the stuff I’ve been working on and to discuss some new assignments and plans. After that, I worked on going through photos to use for the cover of my post and researching design elements.

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• 5/29 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today I worked on deciding what design elements I wanted to use and started to put different versions of the cover page together. I used different photos that I thought looked good with the theme. Throughout the day, I also researched some ideas for posts for some of our study abroad students to make.

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• 6/1 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today, I continued to create different versions of the content for our traditions post to see what direction we want to go in with the overall layout. I continued to add to my list of ideas for the photo signs and played around with some different designs for those as well.

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• 6/2 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • This morning, I finished up some of my ideas for the traditions post and signs to show Jocelyn during our meeting. She gave me some feedback and some ideas on how to move forward with some of my design ideas. She gave me some things to work on for our meeting next week. I worked on brainstorming with the feedback she gave me until lunch. I then started to look for a better photo that we could use until my weekly meeting with Nikki and Molly, which we had today at 2 instead of on Thursday like usual.

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• 6/3 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today I worked on adding some dates to the editorial calendar spreadsheet as well as finding some more ideas for the university page this summer. I also started creating a list of grads/alum to contact for a “favorite memory” post. I spent the rest of the day looking for better chalk walk photos to use in the traditions post

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• 6/4 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  • Today I worked on playing with different photos for the chalk the walk part of the traditions post, and worked on putting them in different layouts. I also played with the background of the cover a little.

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• 6/5 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  • Today I continued working with different layouts and photos for the post I am working on. I also worked on tagging photos in the file vault and looking at some to move into the public gallery.

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• 6/8 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today I did some more editing on my post to get more of it finalized before I meet with Jocelyn tomorrow.

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• 6/9 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  • I had my weekly meeting with Jocelyn this morning, and she made a new layout for the traditions post for me to try. I started working in Photoshop with the layout until I was done for the day.

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• 6/10 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today, I attended a meeting for U-SOAR to try to talk to them about working with us to make posts about their research. This took longer due to the fire alarm going off in the library. Then I went to the Co-op store with Kira to film a video with Norm. I then worked on a few different things the rest of the day.

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• 6/11 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  •  I had my meeting with Nikki and Molly today and looked at my assignments and deadlines. We watched a Philly street virtual tour that was made a few years ago and discussed what it would look like to remake it now.

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• 6/12 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Kira and I went to Orientation to get students to be in a video. I worked on a video about grad photo spots and got it sent to Kira. I worked on the traditions post some more and started looking at the script for the video. I started commenting on it and deciding what would be important to include now versus back then.

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• 6/15 - 10 am - 4:30 pm - 6.5 hrs

  • I worked more on the Photoshop layouts. I started looking for fonts and placing text. I worked to make more edits on the script so that it fit my experience as someone who grew up in Indiana and as a student.

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• 6/16. - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Jocelyn and I had our meeting this morning. We decided to go back to building the post out in Canva and found some inspiration to build off of. I worked on that and went through some photos in Media-graph.

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• 6/17 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Kira and I filmed a video with Norm to post for mascot day. I worked on building out a new layout for the traditions post using the inspiration we found yesterday. I worked on the editorial calendar and worked on finding fun dates to include. I also worked in Media-graph as well.

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• 6/18 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I had Jocelyn take a look at the new layout, and she gave me some feedback. We talked back and forth and decided on a direction for me to start building out with the other events. I pulled clips from Media-graph and put a video together for an Instagram trend.

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• 6/22 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today, I focused on getting rough compositions for each event created for my meeting with Jocelyn tomorrow. I found that finding sticker-like shapes in Canva was a little harder than I thought, so it took me a bit to find ones that I liked and get them into a layout that I liked. I also got to sit in on the ID5 meeting about the results for the last campaign cycle.

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• 6/23 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  •  I had my meeting with Jocelyn, and we decided that it would be best for me to find sticker shapes on Adobe Stock and make them into PNGs in Illustrator. She showed me how to create them and sent me some of the files she found. I worked in Photoshop to create photos for the pixel stretch trend on Instagram.

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• 6/24 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I met with Joceyln this morning to go over the Illustrator process again. Then I worked to start finding shapes that I wanted to include in the post and got them put into artboards to turn into individual PNGs. Today I finished up the pixel stretch photos as well.

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• 6/25-8-4:30 half-hour lunch

  • I worked on adding the shapes into Canva and working on the two versions that we have been building. I also had my check-in meeting with Nikki and Molly. I also worked on getting a section about Jimmy Stewart added to the script. I started working on a fun video for the opening of the fall 2027 application as well.

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• 6/30 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today, I worked on continuing the designs for the traditions post. I finished the final tweaks on the scrapbook version and finished the doodle version as well. I worked throughout the day on getting more of the editorial calendar filled out. Today I finished the video for the opening of the application.

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• 7/1 - 8 am - 10 am - 2 hrs

  • I went around town to grab clips for a video, then had my meeting with Jocelyn. 

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• 7/2- 8-4:30 half-hour lunch

  •  I worked on some more finalizations on the traditions post so that we could start getting it approved by Gavin. I also had my weekly meeting with Nikki and Molly. We touched briefly on the assignments I have coming up.

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• 7/6 - 10 am - 4:30 pm - 6.5 hrs

  • I worked on getting the script memorized for filming on Wednesday. I also worked on getting more dates added to the editorial calendar for the rest of the year. I worked on pulling more dates from the special events calendar on the website.

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• 7/7 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Joceyln and I met this morning and discussed getting a cover added. I worked on the cover afterwards, and Jocelyn adjusted it and got it set to Gavin and Elain for approval. I worked more on memorizing the script. I also did some work in Mediagraph

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• 7/8 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  • The cover was approved, and I was able to get the post sent to Kira. I also got to film the Philly Street tour video. We went all around Downtown and in some of the shops.

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• 7/9 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today I sat in on a “check-in” meeting for the Marcom team where they talked about some of their upcoming project, went over the project assignment PowerPoint, and talked about transitioning some of the projects into the new fiscal year. I also had a meeting with Nikki and Molly to touch base on my current and upcoming projects. Throughout the day, I worked on the graphics for the alumni quote post and worked on filling in the special events list for the editorial calendar spreadsheet.

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• 7/ 13 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today, I worked on finishing the list for the editorial calendar and filled in important university dates that I found on the website. It was requested that I try a different layout for the alumni quote post, so I also worked on getting those created. I started brainstorming on ways to accomplish what was requested while still maintaining the accessibility of the post. Kira and Nikki suggested shortening some of the quotes so that they weren’t as long, so I made sure to do that while editing. I also finished adding the date to the calendar.

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• 7/14 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today I had a meeting with Jocelyn in the morning, so I made sure I had everything ready for that first. We discussed different options to change the layout, and she gave me some feedback on the versions I was working on. I worked on using her feedback and ideas to start making 2 different versions.

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• 7/15 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I continued to finalize the versions I was working on yesterday to get them looked at by Joceyln. Once we agreed on the layout we liked, we had it sent to be approved by Gavin. I reached out to one of the grads for a better-quality picture. Today was also our meeting with you for my Mid-term check-in.

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• 7/16 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  •  I received the photo from the grad last night, so I got that replaced and checked to make sure I was okay to send the final graphics to Kira. We then worked on designing a cover for the post. I came up with two ideas, and Jocelyn refined the cover further. I had my meeting with Nikki and Molly today. After that, I helped Kira film a video and took some photos of Norm in a hammock.

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• 7/17 - 8 am - 12 pm - 4 hrs

  • Today I worked in Media-graph and worked to get feedback on the pathfinder at my tour guide training.

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• 7/20 - 12 pm - 4:30 pm - 4.5 hrs

  • Today, I went through and edited the photos of Norm and got them sent to Kira. I also worked on the grad signs a bit.

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• 7/21 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • This morning, I had my weekly meeting with Jocelyn. We discussed how we wanted to move forward with the grad fair signs and what she wanted me to work on in that regard. I worked on looking through Adobe Stock to find shapes to use for the signs after our meeting. I worked on starting to research the resources for the post copy for LinkedIn.

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• 7/23 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I worked on my list for the post copy for LinkedIn. I have my meeting with Nikki and Molly, as well as sitting in on the Marcom check-in this morning. I also worked on the grad fair signs.

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• 7/24 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I did some more research for the post copy. I started writing for the first one so that I could get it sent to Kira to see if it was going in the right direction. I spent a good bit of time on the first copy. I also worked on a few small things, like the signs.

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• 7/27 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I worked on getting my bullet point list finished for the post copy. I am pulling info from the resource website and listing it to make the writing process easier later. I also finished editing the shapes for the signs.

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• 7/28 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I had my weekly meeting with Jocelyn this morning. We went over the shapes I had created, and she gave me some feedback. We also discussed the layout for a set of signs for the first day of classes. We decided to keep them simple and use the basic design from the Grad fair signs.

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• 7/29 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I worked on the grad fair sign and the first day of class signs. We decided to add social media logos to the bottom. I then worked more on the LinkedIn posts.

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• 7/30 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • After working on the sign shapes for the last couple of days, I got the new versions sent to Jocelyn for approval. This allowed me to start filling in the text. I worked on finishing the LinkedIn post.

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• 7/31 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I started working on the Slate descriptions and finding how the programs were listed. I also worked on filling in the signs. I started looking for the photos for the LinkedIn post as well.

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• 8/3 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I double-checked the text that I added in the grad fair signs and asked Jocelyn to look them over before we got them sent for approval. She had me adjust the text spacing and create a basic layout for all of the fun shape versions. After having Gavin approve them, we added a few more text options, and then they were finished.

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• 8/4 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today I worked on updating program descriptions for Slate. I would find the program page on the website and read through it to find what I thought would be a good short description. This is what I worked on all day and got about ¾ of the way through the list of 144 programs.

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• 8/5- 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • I had my final meeting with Jocelyn this morning to verify that the signs were good to go and discuss the proper way to download them. The rest of the day, I worked on replacing the program descriptions for Slate. I was able to find descriptions that I thought fit and got to the end of the list.

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• 8/6 - 8 am-4:30 pm - half-hour lunch - 7.5 hrs

  • Today, I worked on finishing formatting the dates and listing events in the calendar portion of the Editorial Calendar sheet. In the morning, I sat in on the Marcom check-in meeting, where some quick assignments were made. I also had my last check-in meeting with Nikki, where we went through the assignments that I finished recently. Then we went to Indiana Vintage Supply to get B-roll for the Philly St. tour video. I worked on moving photos into the public gallery the rest of the day.​

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• • 8/7 - 8 am-12 pm- 4 hrs

  • This morning, I worked to get more images added to the public gallery before my open house training this afternoon.