Reflection 1 (to encompass the first month of interning)

I agreed to the internship on somewhat of a whim, not completely clear on what my job was or what my responsibilities would be, and it has been quite an adventure.

Things I have learned so far:

1) How to use hootsuite, which encompasses its own special array of new techniques of managing social media

• how to look at 10 streams of tweets at once, which is initially extremely overwhelming
• how to analyze/track site data on followers and site popularity
• how to schedule/manage tweets from multiple twitter accounts

2) How to set up and use OnMason

3) How to search for relevant/interesting publishing materials

• How to use Google Reader
• How to use Flickr
• How to use Page Flakes

Overall, I find the tweeting to be the most convenient and accessible for posting whilst between emails and other everyday tasks of a student. It is stressful sometimes making sure I am able to get at least that done as we near closer to the end of the semester.

Hopefully in the future I will be getting around to having time to manage the facebook accounts and do some advertising, but for now, that is still a bit too much for my schedule to handle.

Alas, for now, I should probably either do some homework or go to sleep.