Shift Work
This week my shift was with the dot com work. I felt we as a whole on Wednesday’s shift did a pretty good job. I thought all in all, the night went real smooth. I began my shift approving the Missouri headlines, and then creating the large leads for the stories. I think the reporters are beginning to submit freeze frames that tell the story very well.

There are a few things we need to continue to check and double check. First is AP Style formatting that we normally don’t see. This includes things such as when to use money sing, or when to spell out dollar. I think we also need to read and re-read parts to make the stories clearer. I found that in a few stories, one or two words meant all the difference.

I did learn something new this week as Tyne Morgan had a web extra in a Word document. Instead of saving it as a PDF file, I created a new story and copied and formatted what the Word document contained into a new story. I then linked the story together and thought it looked great.

ePortfolio
I spent a little time this week converting all of my video files to flv files and am ready to start working on my ePortfolio. I also emailed Jonathan Coffman and plan on purchasing some of this server space this week. I look forward to working and finalizing my ePortfolio these coming weeks. I wanted to start, but have a few questions as I have never used Dreamweaver before and you mentioned something during Flash training about creating the background, etc.

Smart Decision Project
We are ready to start meeting with and recruiting mid-Missourians to blog, we just need the green flag.