Photobucket, Technology, Etc.....

As I was about to write this next post, I read a comment post asking how I feel Facebook, LinkedIn, and how technology is such important in our workplace. This got me thinking. If the Internet crashed, I strongly feel the Wingteam wouldn't be in business, as I'm sure this is how most of you feel about the places you are currently working. Every day when I enter the office I check my emails, post items on different websites, upload pictures, and create and send documents. I really don't know if my job would be around if technology wasn't as advanced as it is currently.



One thing that Wingteam offers is a slide show of the photos of staff members that will be working a particular event. This is sent to our client so they have to face to put to a name and someone to recognize when they walk in the door of the event. I feel that this is very helpful and important to our clients, and before today, something that I didn't think much about.

I would say that well over 90% of Wingteam's business is done online...the few other items are handled on the phone. Overall, I feel that learning more about Facebook, LinkedIn, Photobucket, and all the other technological resources that I have been working with and learning is going to turn out to be a huge asset to me throughout my future....We just have to keep learning and keep growing!

I've Found My Niche

It seems to me that I've gotten into my niche at Wingteam. Recently my only projects have been working on grids and doing payroll to the staff that just worked the event. Finally I have mastered an area of the office!

Just to explain a little.....For each event Wingteam (me! :)) puts together a grid. This grid contains the name, contact information and a little bit about each staff member that would make them suitable for the job. This information then gets sent to our client. It has become my job to go through each staff member's resume and find pertinent information that relates them to the job they will be working. This all gets put together in an Excel spreadsheet and then sent to our client.

For payroll each staff member that has successfully completed their job has to send a time sheet via email. From this we take the hours and the rate and find out how much to pay them. I then record this, write a check, fill out a thank you card, label and stamp the envelope and send off the card. This sounds easy enough but for some reason many staff members don't follow through completely and we have to "track" them down to get the time sheet.

I really like this part of my job, it lets me virtually meet the staff members that are working events all over the country and find out the awesome jobs, endeavours, and such that they have been involved with in the past.

Testimonials

I have been given the task of supervising all of the testimonials that we receive and publishing them on Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn and then relaying all of them to our website guy who then publishes them online.

Some of the challenges that I faced in doing so was more so technical difficulties than anything else. For example, I'm not very familiar with working on LinkedIn so it was difficult to figure out how to post 4 to 5 testimonials. Also, LinkedIn has most of their text space extremely limited which didn't give me the adequate space to post all of the testimonials so I had to resort to making a slide show and publishing it on Wingteam's LinkedIn site. All in all, it worked out very well and Yvette was happy with the final product.

Also, if any of you out there have problems with LinkedIn in the future, I can answer some of your questions! HAHA.

Moving Along....

Last week was a chore, literally. We had to organize and pack up the office because Wingteam was moving their office to a different location. While moving we were able to take a break from the day to day projects we have been working on, which was nice, and able to get some fresh air in the process!

While going through things it got me more acquainted with the office and also with the organization of everything which hopefully will help me become more productive in the future and take less time to find a certain paper. Who knows, but it was nice for a little break! :)

Application

Well, here I am, finally writing in the blog again. It has been a while because it has been pretty busy in the office but we have been working on so much. This post I am going to focus on telling you guys about the application that I created.

Two weeks ago Yvette came to me with an application from a restaurant that she picked up and said that she really liked the format and the content that were in it and she wanted me to tailor it to our company, revise it, and send it to the guy who does our website and have him post a link to it online. Wow, was that a project! But, I did awesome! The application turned out looking just like the new one she picked up that she liked and I incorporated some awesome stuff into it that really works for Wingteam.

I have come to find out that I really like to be given my own project and for me to just run with it. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem working in groups, in fact, sometimes I prefer it but with projects such as this I really enjoy the fact that I can point to that document and realize that I did it all on my own.

Supplier Diversity

This week our team discovered something very interesting....supplier diversity. This is a program that many companies participate in. This program gives minorities and women more opportunities for increasing business. To apply for this you need to be a certified minority business through the state. Many companies have online applications but some have to be filled out and mailed in. Once submitted you are then in their database and you will then be more likely to receive their business. If all works out well and we are able to submit our information to many of these companies our business could increase up to 200 percent! I find this project very interesting and hopefully we can increase our business!

What's to come....

This next week at the office should be fun. Yvette and I talked about many assignments I have to work on this week while she is out of the office. One thing that I am in charge of developing is a Facebook site for all of the upcoming interns that are in the classes behind us. This will help Wingteam to coordinate a larger staff base and also for TDM students to get their PLE hours easier. It will also show students a wide range of events and help them to narrow their scope as far as what they see themselves doing for their internships. It will be nice to have freedom, develop a plan of action, and hopefully make this a successful site for current ASU students.

Also, this week's assignment on assessing the competition got me thinking about improvements that I want to suggest, most of which include web site changes. After looking at some very strong websites I have a lot of good ideas to suggest to Yvette, who is already planning on redesigning the site this summer. I think she'll be very pleased with my ideas!

I hope everyone has a great week and learns a lot at their internships! Have fun!