On Thursday I worked at the Call Center and had my internship. I thought of a brilliant idea for SRU's social media networks. Well, first, I asked what people wanted to see on the sites. I'm not in charge of the sites to put what I want would think people wanted to see. So, I figured I might as well ask! Many said they want more updates on athletic scores, pictures of renovations and construction, updates of upcoming lectures and activites and did I mention pictures?

One guy said that, as a parent, he wants to see students involved in classes, sports and activites. That gave me this idea. Why not every week or biweekly, I highlight a department, sport or organization/activity? That way, current and prospective students are learning about what goes on here and if they would like to be involved and alumni are seeing what current things are happening in their department and around campus. I'm brilliant.

I figured, I might as well use the Communication Department as my guinea pig since I know most of the faculty and a lot of the students. I want to get a picture of a student working on InDesign or Photoshop to show that students learn how to use new programs for design. I also thought it would be neat to get a picture of Professor Strahler teaching, or pretending to teach, since he is a 2005 graduate of SRU and is teaching here, too. I want a picture of the equipment that students can check out and learn to use. So I figured I could get a picture of someone checking out a camera or of the cameras we have to check out.

I e-mailed Dr. Flynn, the chair of the communication department, and he said it was a great idea! So I'm glad he agrees! I also e-mailed the Pro Animal Welfare Society to feature them, but no one has gotten back to me yet.

Aside from that, I want to take pictures of the Equestrian Center, Macoskey Center and the new DiSpirito fields. The best time to do that would probably be during spring break, when I don't have classes to go to and actually have time to get some stuff together.

Thursday night I had my campaigns class. Everything seems to be going relatively smoothly for our group. We've finally figured out what we want our events to be. We want a beer and wine festival, an olympics type of event for those under 21 and movie nights on the beach. I would definitely go to all of these events, no doubt. We decided to actually go see the Beach Club this upcoming Wednesday, it will make it so much easier to visualize everything after having seen it. We are also going to meet on Sunday night to talk about our survey results and start getting details for our campaign. We're getting the ball rolling, people! Finally!

Today was a payday Friday so I had to go to the Call Center early to figure out everyone's payrates. I had a test in Spanish. I was very confident in all of my answers and feel really good about it.

At my internship, I wrote little blurbs that go into the Rock Magazine, which is the alumni magazine that gets sent out. Alumni Relations is in charge of the Class Notes section of the magazine which consists of: class notes, marriages, births/adoptions and deaths.

Now, I'm going to try to get everything for campaigns done. I need to check my e-mail to see if Megan sent me the information so I can make graphs based on the survey results. I was really confused as to what Dr. Quinn wanted concerning the communication audit. On the sheet, it said it was a fact sheet and in class, Dr. Quinn kept saying communication audit. I e-mailed her and got it figured out so I just need to add a little information to get that almost completely completed. We want to add information about their menu, but we won't know anything until we get to go there on Wednesday. I need to read Chapter 5 for organizational communication for Monday.

I work at Old Navy tomorrow from 12-5 p.m. and at the Call Center on Sunday from 5-9 p.m.

Homework, ready or not, here I come!

It's almost Thursday. Since when?

Slippery Rock weather is so ridiculously unpredictable. Friday it was in the high 50's and Monday night it was a huge blizzard. I had night class on Monday and it was so bad outside that we were let out halfway through class.

Tuesday I had work at the Call Center, my internship at Alumni Relations and the Green and White Society open house. At work, we're starting to get together a committee for Senior Class Gift. Hopefully we can get a good group again this year! At my internship, I updated alumni in the Raiser's Edge Software from SRU's LinkedIn account. At Green and White, only around 12 people showed up, which I thought was pretty low. I thought many more people were going to attend.

Today I had work early at the Call Center and Spanish at 11. We have our second test on Friday, which will be challenging. I had a meeting with Professor Strahler to look over my digital portfolio so he could give me some suggestions on what to improve. I also had a meeting today with my group for my campaigns class. We are just finishing up our research for our Beach Club Campaign. I worked both the daytime and night sessions at the Call Center. Everyone is doing fabulous! They raised over $4,000!

I got called in to work at Old Navy on Saturday from 12-5 p.m. Originally they wanted me to work from 6-10 a.m. tomorrow morning, but I have Senior Seminar at 8 a.m. so that's pretty impossible. Now I'm unable to go to the basketball games on Saturday. I was really looking forward to going, too!

Now some time to relax!

It took me a really long time to transcribe the focus group. All of Saturday and Sunday. I didn't realize how much people talk on top of each other. I wasn't able to read for my night class, which I'm going to do after I finish this up.

I worked at the Call Center last night. I supervise Sunday nights, the Wednesday daytime shift and Wednesday nights. We just hired new callers and they are still learning what information is good to say and how to make the script their own.

The picture at the bottom is of North Hall on Slippery Rock University's campus. I took it on Friday and it was surprisingly nice out. That lasted about two days. It's back to raining/snowing and cold temperatures. It was a nice little tease from mother nature.

Today my group had our focus group for our Conneaut Lake Park campaign. It went really well and we got a lot of useful information out of it! Everyone got along well together, which made it even better. It took about an hour, which is how long we thought it was going to take.

For the most part, conversation seemed to flow pretty well. Sometimes we had to interject to keep them on the topic of Conneaut Lake Park.

I recently got a second job at Old Navy at the Grove City Outlets. I worked at the Old Navy in a local mall in Altoona when I was in high school. This morning I was called into work for a four hour shift. I worked 4-8 p.m.

Tomorrow evening I'm supervising at the call center, so I need to get all my homework done tonight!

I'm off to start transcribing the focus group so I can have it done for our group meeting on Monday!

Today was one of the first really warm days at Slippery Rock University! It had to have been about 55 degrees. Only bad thing, it was ridiculously windy.

At my internship today, I took pictures of the new Student Union being built. The blue sky made many of the pictures look really nice. I also got some good pictures of North Hall. I maintain SRU's Facebook page and RockAlumni Twitter account and every Friday I have Rock Trivia! This weeks question was about North Hall. In what year and during what event did North Hall burn down? You'll find out Monday!

I also updated rockalumnicafe.com, which is the Rock alumni online community.

Tomorrow at 1 p.m., my PR Campaigns group has our focus group. We hope it will help out greatly with our research for The Beach Club Campaign for Conneaut Lake Park. I'll have to transcribe the focus group, that way we can group ideas to better use it for our presentation. We will individually contact 10 people/businesses for our statistical survey. This will help to provide concrete, numerical facts for our client.

I just finished updating my resume and cover letter. They look fantastic, if I do say so myself.

I'm really interested in Ghost Adventures, a show on the Travel Channel about ghost hunting. It's crazy how they can capture EVP's, apparitions and can actually feel contact.

I'm off to continue my weekend of homework!