My Internship: Salvation Army, Week 4

This week was pretty relaxed as far as work went. A lot of the time was spent on finding background audio for some promotional videos that were going to be used at the big end of the year Salvation Army "Need Knows No Season" event.

Next week I will get to go to the studio where Salvation Army in Central Ohio has all of their promotional videos recored and edited by professionals.

Until next week, have a good one!

My Internship: Salvation Army, Week 3

This was the first week I was able to do some graphic design work for The Salvation Army in Central Ohio.

I created a design piece that was to be placed on the website's homepage in the photo slider that contains a lot of the organizations upcoming events and campaigns.

This specific design piece was targeted toward their Hunger Knows No Season food drive campaign that is to take place at Central Ohio Kroger locations.

So far the internship is going well and I am getting a lot of freedom in the way I write and design pieces for the organization.

Until next week, have a good one!

My Internship: Salvation Army, Week 2

This week, as I dove further into this internship, I was able to work on some news writing and press releases for the Salvation Army. I contacted some business owners for sources on stories we were sending to the Dispatch and received some good advise from my supervisor on how to format and write these releases.

My supervisor is Kelli Trinoskey and has worked for The Salvation Army in Central Ohio for a few years now as their director of public and community relations.

I found out that next week I will be able to start working on some graphic design pieces for the organizations website homepage. Definitely looking forward to that.

Until next week, have a good one!

Beginning of My Internship Process: Salvation Army, Week 1

This was my first week working as the Media Relations intern with The Salvation Army in Central Ohio. I applied for and received this internship a couple weeks ago and have just completed my first week of work. My schedule throughout the semester is going to be M-W-F after i get our of classes (around 3:30 p.m.)

This week I did not have much to do as I was just getting started and my supervisor was getting in order what all she had planned for me this semester.

I worked on updating the Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn connections of The Salvation Army in Central Ohio as well as looking over past press/media releases so that I could get a feel for the writing style of The Salvation Army.

I am looking forward to what this internship will bring about in myself. I have never done anything with a non-profit so that is something I'm really looking forward to.

This blog will now turn into a week-to-week update on how my internship is going throughout the semester.

Until next week, have a good one!

Sports Injury Leads to Social Media Outpour

This past Sunday, one widely talked about and covered sports injury took place in the NCAA Tournament. It is being reported as one of the worst injuries basketball has ever seen. 

In the Duke vs. Louisville game, University of Louisville player Kevin Ware suffered a compound fracture in his right leg. 

Ware had 6 inches of bone sticking out of his leg, but encouraged his fellow teammates to quit worrying about him and to go and win the game. His fellow players took his message to heart and won the game, beating Duke 85-63.

Not long after the injury took place and was shown nationwide, professional athletes, college ball colleagues, and sports enthusiasts started an outpour of remarks and condolences across social media for the young college ball player. Ware went into emergency surgery after his injury and is recovering currently.

People like Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, ex-professional basketball Michael Jordan, Boston Celtics swingman Terrence Williams, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brian Hartline, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, Phoenix Suns forward Jared Dudley, television and radio host Larry King, Duke's Seth Curry, rapper Lil Wayne, and Houston Rockets shooting guard James Harden all had kind words to say for Ware. 

"Prayers go out to Kevin Ware. No athlete wants that to happen to anybody," tweeted Michael Jordan.

"I've never seen a worse accident in a basketball game. I wish Kevin Ware nothing but the best," said Larry King.

"And my thoughts and prayers to Kevin Ware!," said Seth Curry.

All of these messages of condolences were able to reach Ware through the use of social media. I send my own condolences to Ware, his family, his teammate, and all the Louisville fans.

Google Getting Bad Social Media Buzz?

Now that the Best/Worst Social Media Practices assignments are all done for our class, it was interesting that today, Google, the company that my technology group used as our best practices company, is getting a lot of hatred for something they do every year and actually all the time around holidays or other special days in history.

Today, for Easter Sunday, Google featured American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez on it's homepage. This act, something they again do all the time, riled up Christians on social media sites.

Anti-Google tweets began appearing, bashing Google for using Chaves instead of Jesus Christ on such a day.

The reason Google chose Chaves was because it would have been his 86th birthday.

One tweet protestor mentioned how he was going to start using Bing from now on, Google's biggest competitor. It is interesting to note, though, that Bing did not feature Jesus Christ either. Instead, there were brightly colored easter eggs.

I thought this was rather interesting because it appeared that Google, in my eyes, was just trying to be neutral, and offend no one person or religion by choosing a historical figure like Cesar Chaves.

I guess you just can't please everyone.

New Facebook for Android?

Facebook announced to the media via invitations that they would be unveiling a "new home on Android" on April 4th. 

The social media site has already announced it would be releasing many new things this year but this invitations seems like it is going to be something special to only Android. TechCrunch speculates that it might even include an altered version of Android.

Speculations of this unveiling include the possibility of Facebook acting like the user interface “skins” that companies like Samsung and LG use on their Android devices. It may also act as an “application” layer that integrates native applications like Messenger into the phone. Other rumors point to the idea behind “Facebook Home,” which would essentially be a heavily skinned Home screen.

Obviously these are all just rumors and speculations, but regardless, something big is coming with Facebook and Android.