Done With Week One-Four, Just One More

Shift Work
This week I had my second-to-last Smart Decision 08 shift. I did the normal stuff, you know updating the blogs, checking stories and adding videos to the Splashcast player. I also tried to add content to the candidates pages. I found photos for Andrew Finkenstadt and Christina Anderson. I was having trouble finding photos for the other candidates. I even called several of the local papers from where the candidate is from hoping they could send us a mug shot or something as most newspapers keep important local people on file. No luck there as no one could help. The paper in Jackson had just found out that Jennie Lee (Jen) Schwartze Sievers is running for governor. I guess maybe those local papers should focus more on actual news rather than the Heritage Club visiting the Ponderosa in Farmington! Because not too much content needed updated, I also gave an extra pair of eyes to KOMU.com.

I do have one concern for Smart Decision. I am not sure the candidates for the 9th Congressional District for example are easily assessible. Maybe this is where we need to focus as many sites may have governor information, not too many will have the 9th or 25th information. I guess I had a few problems at first finding some of these candidates to try to add content to and I know the site. I guess I could see why people may get on the page for a few minutes and find it a little tough navigating.

Group Project
I think we did the the best we could. We really tried to reach the various groups. We introduced them to the site and tried to get them to blog. The total stroy will be told tomorrow at the brown bag presentations. I originally was going to help present, but as something came up for me I won't be able to be there. I think our group did a good job as we identified groups we can/have talked to and mentioned some of the hurdles we ran into. I think if someone takes on the project after us, they will find success. I mentioned it in my News from the Net, but here is a very interesting read. MySpace has teamed up with NBC to create a SmartDecision-like site. Check out this site: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/news/sections/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsLang=en&newsId=20080421006566

I don't have too much more to say I guess. Thats' my blog for the week. See you in class.