1-20-11

Vocab:
Digital Signage: A form of electronic display that shows information, advertising, and other messages (Wikipedia definition)

Today was a pretty laid back day. This week I have been working on coming up with modified descriptions for all the different pages on our web site. Since I only had one left it did not take me very long. When I was done with that, Wade (my sponsor) was leaving for a little bit and told me to research about the up coming project I'm working on. For this project we will be putting up T.Vs around Lincoln Square to advertise the different companies in the building. To do this we are using digital signage to send the ads to the T.Vs. So for about an hour I was researching the company I will be working with for this project, South Central A/V, and I also had to do a little research about digital signage and what it was. Although researching is VERY boring to me, it was necessary that I looked more into this project before I went into the meeting next week with our South Central A/V rep, Steve. I also had a little bit of filing to do, which took like 2 minutes. Most people find filing boring, but i actually enjoy the process of organizing and alphabetizing everything (Unless it takes forever, but like I said this only took like 2 minutes).

The website descriptions that I had worked on early Wade read over them once he got back to the office. I was SUPER nervous about this. I'm not a very confident writer and it shows in some of my work so I was scared that he was going to correct like everything and find a lot of mistakes, or not like what I came up with. After reading them he went over errors with me, which wasn't as bad as I was expecting. He said that only a few things were worded awkwardly, but other than that he was very happy with them. Even though the whole process of coming up with these descriptions became very frustrating at times, it was worth it in the end and made me very proud to here Wade tell me he liked them and to see the look on his face knowing he didn't just say it, he meant it. Also, I know that it's to make our website look better, and in the end it is beneficial to Lincoln Square, and knowing this helped me to get through the frustrating times with writers block and thinking what I wrote was terrible.