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Week 9: Live to Learn

Hello again! I misspoke two weeks ago when I said I would be on vacation this week, I am actually leaving tomorrow so I have some great experiences from this week at work to share with you all! This week I would like talk about something I now have a completely new perspective on,…

Week 9: Social Media

Since I still have 3 weeks to go, I am repeating the prompt from Week #5. Also I am writing the blog today because I worked Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week (instead of Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and will be in New York this weekend. Yesterday I learned more about our social media management….

Week 7: Back from vacation, and excited to get back to work!

Hello All! After a much needed vacation to Chicago last week, I am excited to be back at Environment Georgia! When looking at the organization as a whole, there is a lot of independent work done by individuals that eventually ends up culminating in a collaboration. Each week, interns sit down with the program direct…

Week 9: Final Reflection!

The final week of the internship went very well. The internship overall was a great experience for me. I learned a lot about working as a victim’s advocate, working for a non-profit, and working in general. I now know how to perform the majority of tasks as a victim’s advocate, with a little assistance. I…

Week 6: All About Culture

From the very beginning of this internship, I could tell that Addison Whitney’s company culture is pretty relaxed, but still engaging. The first day of the internship, we all had lunch brought in from Panera and we talked about the silliest things, specifically Justin Beiber and how Calvin Harris and T-Swift had just broken up….

Week 8: NWRA Goes to the Zoo

My latest project has been working on our Safety Stand Down program. I wrote promotional copy and created a timeline of Tweets for our Twitter, so all of my own words will be posted on the organization’s page! I also have been the only one who has called numerous members to remind them to apply…

Week 6: Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

The title of this entry is a quote from Peter Drucker, an American management consultant whose work contributed to the modern philosophy of business corporations. I think this quote can say a lot about any company. You can’t truly know a business until you understand its culture, even if you know all objective facts about…

Week 5: Progress

On Friday, I will be half done with my summer internship. That’s pretty hard to believe. I feel like I have accomplished and learned so much already, but also nothing at all–like I just started this week. I have so much left to do in my short time remaining. My internship is advancing well. Through…

Week 8: Leadership and Self-Reflection

Week 8 was one of my tougher weeks at the internship but in reflection I learned more about leadership on the job as well as myself as a working professional. The first thing I learned about leadership is that you do not have to be “on the front line” to be a leader. This past…

Week 7: Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork

Hello all! I am back again to share some more information about VCS. This week I would like to go more in depth about our working environment here at VCS. At Vigiliant we take an agile approach to development which means that we divide up a task into parts and then put all of our…