So it's been about a week since I first started my internship with Tattoo Manufacturing International, and I have to say, from the get-go, everything has been pretty great. The first day consisted of witty banter between my supervisor, Hannah and the IT department as we attempted to set up my work computer. That's right, I get my own computer to work on along with a decent sized desk. I hope you are very jealous. The rest of that day I spent writing my first blog post for the Tattoo Sales blog. I now know all there is to know about St. Patrick's day. Be on the look out for that post in mid-March if you want to read it. Though you all should. Who wouldn't want to read a blog expertly crafted by my hands?
The second, third and Fourth days of my internship consisted of me going back and editing the footer on every single blog that's been published. Seeing as there are over 400 published blogs, this is a bit of a task to handle. However, I am apparently the only person on the planet who thinks that copying and pasting things over and over gain is relaxing, so that's a plus. The best part of this task is that I get to go through every blog ever posted. I often find myself reading the blogs themselves, something that has made doing this take far longer than it really should. The blogs themselves are extremely interesting due to the fact that they cover such a wide range of topics. There are some that give useful tips on how to do certain thing while others talk about the history and safety of temporary tattoos. My personal favorites are the ones that give ideas on the uses of Temporary tattoos that I had never actually thought of myself. Of course, while it's embarrassing to say, I've never actually successfully applied a temporary tattoo on myself, so that may be why I never thought of them. Despite this though, people who have achieved something as simple as applying a temporary tattoo would still find some of these new uses interesting.
Anyway, what doing this work has taught me so far is that the blog, especially, is a fantastic way to interact with costumers, something that wasn't as easily available to companies before the internet. I personally enjoy reading and writing the blogs, and I'm sure you will too. If you want to check some of these out, the head over to blog.tattoosales.com. I'm sure you'll find something interesting over there. Also, this will be where the blogs that I write are posted when the right times comes. Be on the lookout for that.
In short, I've really enjoyed my first week here. I'm looking forward to what the following weeks will bring and what I'm going o learn from working here.
See you next week for another update!
Christian Wise
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
Before We Get Started...
Unfortunately, my internship with Tattoo Manufacturing Int. does not start up for another week. So, in addition to me sitting at home doing some research on the topic, I thought maybe it would be a good idea to give some background on how I came up with my project and what I am actually looking at.
The entire idea for this project came as a result of me spending massive amounts of time on my computer. In my time on the internet, I've come to notice that people tend to treat it like it's the real world. I have actually made some really good friends over the internet, so the idea of the internet being similar to the real world is something that I have experienced personally. This is where I got the idea of an Internet Society. An Internet Society, as I describe it, is a mirror image of the real-world society, but on the internet. it's made up of all the interactions between people on the internet whether they are social or concerned with business. Like the real world, these can be positive or negative. The total of these interactions and the actions of the people who make them forms what I called the Internet society. The original idea of my project was to look at this society as a whole and see what was different in the internet society from the real world. Did people act differently? Was there more opportunity for negative interaction due to internet users being behind a screen? Things like that were what I wanted to examine, and it was an exciting prospect, until I realized just how large a task that would be.
In order to rectify that problem, I decided to focus on one type of internet interaction. I switched my focus from the internet as a whole to a Business-Social Media project. My project, as it is now, focuses on how social networking and the internet in general has changed how businesses conduct their business. I will be working on different types of social media for Tattoo Manufacturing Int. and learning how social networking has become both a positive and negative thing for businesses. In addition to this, through doing research of my own, I am going to examine how business has changed from the introduction of social media.
The entire idea for this project came as a result of me spending massive amounts of time on my computer. In my time on the internet, I've come to notice that people tend to treat it like it's the real world. I have actually made some really good friends over the internet, so the idea of the internet being similar to the real world is something that I have experienced personally. This is where I got the idea of an Internet Society. An Internet Society, as I describe it, is a mirror image of the real-world society, but on the internet. it's made up of all the interactions between people on the internet whether they are social or concerned with business. Like the real world, these can be positive or negative. The total of these interactions and the actions of the people who make them forms what I called the Internet society. The original idea of my project was to look at this society as a whole and see what was different in the internet society from the real world. Did people act differently? Was there more opportunity for negative interaction due to internet users being behind a screen? Things like that were what I wanted to examine, and it was an exciting prospect, until I realized just how large a task that would be.
In order to rectify that problem, I decided to focus on one type of internet interaction. I switched my focus from the internet as a whole to a Business-Social Media project. My project, as it is now, focuses on how social networking and the internet in general has changed how businesses conduct their business. I will be working on different types of social media for Tattoo Manufacturing Int. and learning how social networking has become both a positive and negative thing for businesses. In addition to this, through doing research of my own, I am going to examine how business has changed from the introduction of social media.
So that's my project in a nutshell. I am starting my internship on the 17th and I'm really excited to start. I'm looking forward to the project as a whole, and I hope that anyone who sees this will keep coming back to read about my project as it progresses.
Of course, if you have and Questions or Comments, feel free to post them.
My next post will probably be next Friday, after I finish my first week of my internship.
See you then!
Of course, if you have and Questions or Comments, feel free to post them.
My next post will probably be next Friday, after I finish my first week of my internship.
See you then!
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