Hello everyone reading the doDetroit.com interns’ blog, I’m Gill, one of two social media marketing interns that doDetroit.com has hired for the Winter Semester. I am a Michigan State University graduate and have lived in Livonia my entire life. I will be updating this blog along with my fellow intern Lisa. I am in the office Mondays-Wednesdays, while Lisa is here Tuesdays and Thursdays. I expect that whereas the work we will be doing will be similar, our insights into our experience at doDetroit.com will be unique.
The first week of our internship has consisted of an introduction of social media marketing by our intern coordinators Jodie and Bill, a tour of some of Detroit properties, researching Detroit stakeholders in a variety of professions, and of course getting to know our colleagues.
After our lesson on social media marketing, Jodie, Lisa, and I headed down to Greektown to enjoy lunch at Niki’s. The Greek salad the three of us shared was amazing, as was my gyro. Over lunch we discussed our strategy for tackling the various areas doDetroit.com covers. I chose to cover the areas of art, culture, and entertainment (ACE) and family and youth.
Following lunch, Lisa and I began to organize our desk, filing system, and online database. Jodie, Lisa, and my last task of the day—outlining our goals through the end of February.
My next day on the job, I was mostly on my own researching potential ACE contacts and imputing it into our database. After checking in with Bill and Jodie, I was instructed to change my focus to family and youth, because a lot of the ACE contacts would overlap with the contacts Jodie and Bill already had. Around 1:30, the staff decided to break for lunch and I joined Bill and Nick (who serves as the Web site's developer/graphic designer) at Buffalo Wild Wings.
Upon returning from lunch I continued with my researching duties. Unfortunately, finding family and youth blogs based in Detroit was much harder than finding blogs that centered on culture. A lot of the times, the blogs that I had found were focused on the suburbs or “dead” (not updated in the past six months).
However just before leaving I managed to find an active blog, Detroit Moxie. Finally I had something to show for the day! Before leaving I left a note to Lisa included links that I stumbled upon in my search that would better fit under her research jurisdiction.
Overall, I think I will enjoy working at the doDetroit. The staff is laid-back but dedicated, my fellow intern is also a fellow Spartan (Go Green!), and the project I have been assigned will help me grow professionally in a manner that the classroom just cannot compete.
Come back and check out us out next week to see if I finally find another active family and youth blog!
---Gill
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