The Workload Weighs a Ton in Week One-One

Shift Work
This week’s KOMU.com shift seemed awfully busy this week. I think the note cards that explain the web extras and the freeze-frames have already started working. I also think once the new B2 reporters get the hang of it, the process will run smoothly. I spent part of my shift updating the Missouri wires. I’m not sure anybody had updated them since the night before. I did and I must tell you their were some pretty strange stories including a man accidentally killing his wife while installing a television and a respond to a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a six-foot alligator in the basement. Pretty crazy huh?

I must give major props to Rebekah Heil for being such a trooper this week during her dot com shift. I had to leave for a time to visit with the Mizzou College Republicans to introduce them to smardecision08.com. I will tell of the visit a little later in my post, but Rebekah did a fantastic job. I had to leave right as all of the stories were ready to go online and she took care of most of it. I later returned to make up for the time I lost.

Group Project
We have really hit the ground running on our group project. I met with the Mizzou College Republicans on Wednesday and it went pretty well. There were probably 30 people at the meeting and most seemed pretty interested. The group president Marcus Bowen said Democrats often speak out louder than Republicans, and he too wished the College Republicans would participate.

On Thursday, I was supposed to meet with the Mizzou Model United nations, but for some reason they must have canceled their meeting as nobody showed up. I guess I’ll have better luck next week. Brittany Stalker also visited with a group on Thursday and she said they seemed pretty excited about possibly blogging.

I guess that is all I have to say for this week. I’m just kind of worried we can make all of these visits, but people may still not blog. We’ll still try anyway.

ePortfolio
I have not yet recieved your critique of my web page. I know there are certain things that need correcting as the banner is not consistent throughout the site.