Week 4: Continued

The vox pops biscuit interviews were used in the presentation Tuesday, and I had some good feedback from Angelina - so that put me in a good mood. It's cool when you hear good feedback about stuff you really enjoy doing.

We finished the digital information review and handed it over to Aaron - Wednesday.

Carine had been doing some social networking and mobile research and pulled Red and I in to help. With only 2 and a half more weeks of the internship left to go, I really wanted to spend more time with Urs doing some copywriting work. Unfortunately when I approached him, he had a lot of work on and couldn't spare the time that day. However, later he showed me some cool YouTube videos by leelefever who shoots short explanations about new concepts like wikis, social networking, twitter and RSS. Check them out at http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever.

I spent the rest of the week doing social networking and mobile research, but was starting to get bored with it. I'm not the sort of person who enjoys one way activities, like television or surfing the Internet. I see Internet research as a one way activity because you are always looking for and receiving information. Sure, you might summarise your findings, but you aren't necessarily creating new information. Nor are you creating new ideas - just summarising other people's. I was getting over it.

Interactive and digital meeting Friday was good though, Red and I presented the work we had done for YouthLaw which landed us the internship in the first place. The laptop in the room wasn't connected to the network unfortunately, so we just sent the links around by email following. New General Manager, Tony Gardner spoke at the end of the meeting as it had been his first week at Saatchi & Saatchi. He spoke really well and stuck me as being an open and approachable man. It's good when you respect the people you work for, but actions do speak louder than words and he hadn't earned my respect yet - more just gave a good first impression.

Friday evening I played Facebook scrabble with Kate and Debz, but was interrupted by James who urgently needed to get to Queen St for a bit of reputation management. Apparently things weren't going very well with a client of his. As I drove him to the meeting, I learnt that he was going to miss his Wellington flight (weekend - personal) because of it and would have to get a later one. It concerned me slightly that work had impacted on his personal life like this, but remained optimistic that it was a relatively infrequent occurrence.

Later, I joined Siobhan, Daniel, James, Bella, Teina, Richard for a few drinks at the bar. It was good to spend some social time with the people I'd been working with; I came to the realisation that they are a really friendly bunch - and have a fucking awesome way of telling hilarious stories about the sometimes eccentric culture & personalities here.