And we're done with week three

Shift Work
This week my shift was to update KOMU.com. Like I said last week, I enjoy KOMU.com more than smartdecision08.com (for now at least) as it seems to be faster paced. I spent quite a bit of time reading through stories that had already been posted and making corrections. AP style needs to continue to be stressed, as does some misleading headlines. The one improvement that needs changing is the communication among the dot com staff. During my shift, the paid staff started to post reporter’s VO/SOTs as the online stories (rather than the 6 p.m. package stories). Then as the 5 o’clock paid “dot commer” told me, we aren’t supposed to do that and we had to take all those stories down and lost time. I am just not sure the communication between the paid reporters and the Advanced Internet Application students (at least me) is where it needs to be. I don’t want this blog to serve as a rant or a complaint box and I hope you don’t see it that way, but if this is to be a true reflection, I must include it. I know that I myself can facilitate this communication and will work to make the transition from shift to shift better.

I did however continue to learn more about the site and how to make it look better and improve the credibility by putting out the best product. One thing I know I will work on more is finding web extras when I am reporting on Monday nights. After seeing some of the reporter’s extras, I really see how that adds to the story. Not only that, they are kind of fun in a way to see the neat things people can do with technology. The biggest lesson I learned however dealt with my roommate Mark Welsh. As we commonly talk about our shifts at our apartment, he told me how a reporter had a story wrong and HE needed to fact check. Too many times I take the reporter’s story and simply correct a few grammar errors and spelling. I need to read the stories part by part and make sure they are 100% correct.

Project
I don’t have any new information, as our group still needs to meet.

E-portfolio
I have spent some time this week thinking about what I would like to do with my e-portfolio. As for now, I am really considering the Foliotek. While money usually is not an issue when I am working on school, I think I would like to use Foliotek to begin my portfolio. It might be a deal when later down the road I would like to change to Dreamweaver, or iWeb. I guess I need to look into the options more and I would really like to see more examples of what I can do with each. This might even be a deal where I need to sit down with someone and discuss the options. I am not set in stone with anything yet, but as of now am leaning toward Foliotek.