Activities: Website Re-Organization, Installing Software
Technical Information: WordPress, Divi Builder
Reflection: This summer, I am working as an intern at Apex United Methodist Church. This organization is a non-profit religious one, so the things I come in contact with won't be like many businesses. I am assigned two main tasks to help the employees of the church, and help those who are new to the church. I will be doing a lot of internal work on the website, which is visited most frequently by visitors or potential members of the church. I will be making the site easier and more concise so they get the information they need without the hassle. My other big task is database clean-up, and dealing with approximately 14,000 records. This will help all the employees of the church when trying to find the information they need, to make sure it's accurate and up-to-date. The church office is set up in a relatively flat structure, in a way that I will be reporting to the Communications Director, who reports to the Church Lead Pastor who is an executive. But, sometimes when certain people are out of the office or on vacation for instance, I report to the Youth Ministry Team. I am very excited for these tasks of website re-design and database clean-up, to help the church with their business-like but yet unique functions.
Day-By-Day
June 10th was my first day, and I started with installing some software on my laptop; which I'll be using everyday. Then we started looking into the website and what we could change with it, until I ate lunch with my co-workers and supervisor. Then, we did inventory on bandanas we have, and what we need to order for a future mission trip. It was not as scary as the stereotypical first days are, in fact it made me excited for my progress and growth this summer.
On June 11th, I got to sit in on a staff meeting, which was really interesting for finding out how a business meeting runs, and how important teamwork and communication is in every business. I then downloaded WordPress, which is the software we use to edit the website, and was given a campus tour. Then I got a basic run-down tutorial of the Divi Builder in WordPress, which we've used for our previous pages. We also set up sticky notes on the whiteboard, to organize our thoughts and get a basic plan for the new website in visual form. It was very fun and collaborative.
On June 12th, we really started getting in depth with the website redesigning and finding out how we can filter certain pages on the site by categories like gender, age, etc. We also started making blog posts for each group the church has in the ministry directory. This is so we can put all those posts on one Worship Blog to have the info all in one place.
On June 13th, we finished making all the blog posts for the groups which took a big chunk of time, and designed a final plan for the "I'm New" page and Home Page. It was really interesting to work on the website that the whole church will visit, and I enjoy continuing next week (since we don't work on Friday's!)
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