Week 5: The One with all the Web Content

6/20/16 – 6/24/16

This Monday was mostly a flurry of emails and pleads for information. The TrainingIndustry.com application is due on Wednesday and we do not have all the information we need, despite my asking for it weeks ahead of time. As information has started to flow in, I have been updating our application. Besides that, I continued to work on the certification pages for IBM and the Course Description Forms for Sarah.

On Tuesday, I finally compiled all of the information that I would need to submit the TrainingIndustry.com application. The app is in and we should hear back in the next few weeks. I really enjoyed this project because it was the first thing they gave me to handle on my own, and I really needed to expand my reach within the business and ask a handful of new people (some vice presidents) for information I needed. It definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone and allowed me to grow. Tuesday we also had another worldwide meeting and a meeting to discuss the savings program renaming. Lastly, I read the white paper, “Communicate, Communicate, Communicate” and wrote a new abstract for it.

On Wednesday, I completed about eight more certification pages. However, I have noticed a few holes in my training and need to get some questions answered, so I set up a meeting between Caitlin, Jenee, and I for Friday. I also attended the Sprint Planning meeting with my supervisor to observe how Agile planning works. Lastly, in Tuesday’s worldwide meeting, there was a discussion about creating a collateral inventory to be used globally. Wendy and I took it upon ourselves to start brainstorming a framework for such an inventory. It would be a massive project, compiling all of that data, but it was fun to sit down with Wendy and think of as many facets of this project as we could for the initial planning stages.

Now, Thursday was all about uploading new pages to the website. I was able to work on more IBM certs (I am up to about fifteen now) and got fully trained on CDFs by Sarah, so that I can start working on them tomorrow.

On this Friday, I began knocking out a few CDFs for Sarah. They came along slowly at first, as I became accustomed to the process, but next week should go along much better. The rest of Friday was composed of meetings for updates on various projects, mostly concerning competitive intelligence. I then had my meeting with Jenee and Caitlin to answer my IBM cert questions. Now, those should go along more smoothly, and I better understand GK’s web content manager, Umbraco.