Back in Action!

After a beautiful weekend filled with World Cup excitement and amazing weather, we were back to work at the Forest Hills Public Library.  With our website and template still being set up for us by our friends in the Golden State, we focused this meeting on drafting some writing for the website.

First, we wrote descriptions of some projects we were involved in.  Each description features basic information (location, years active, and status), a brief summary of the project, a list of interns and mentors involved, and a section for media related to the project.  We added these descriptions to our database and will continue to build our collection as we learn more about other projects that will be presented on the site.

Additionally, we brainstormed some ideas for the design of the website itself, including a logo.  We’re thinking of an infinity sign (for the “infinite” part of our name) with “The Infinetwork” written along the curve.  As soon as we get our hands on a graphics editing software, we can begin formally designing it. 

Until next time!

‘Bio’ Experiment

It was a gorgeous day today in the city, so we decided to take advantage of the beautiful New York weather. Central Park was bustling with runners, tourists, children, and dogs alike as we brainstormed our next steps for the website. We experimented with different intern biography styles (bullet points, paragraphs, Q&A style), and further familiarized ourselves with WordPress and our selected theme, Chariot, by watching tutorials on the website and YouTube. So far, so good! We’re looking forward to moving to the back end of the site.

We also did some team bonding today, attending Shakespeare in the Park’s production of Much Ado about Nothing! Granted, it’s only 5 P.M. and we’re still waiting for the show to start, but we’re excited and hope it’s going to be good!

Working in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center.

Organization Day

Without proper organization, tackling a large project can become a nightmare, especially if you are someone like me, who can only function under schedules, to-do lists galore, and color-coded folders.  Personally, I get a little overwhelmed without a structured foundation.  That’s why, we spent our meeting yesterday discussing and laying out an online workspace for this project.

We kicked off our meeting at the Forest Hills Public Library (which, side note, has been “my” library since I was a child and has developed tremendously since my last visit into a public haven for bibliophiles and budding academics alike.)  We decided that a collective g-mail/Google account would be our best option for an online workspace because of the variety it offers.  All three of us have access to this new account and plan to use it to send out e-mails from the team (until we can get an e-mail address linked to our website).  When we start contacting interns and mentors about our project, it will be a lot easier to collect all of their responses in one central location.  It will avoid our own personal e-mail inboxes from being flooded with responses from this project.  We also created a Google Drive for all documents pertaining to this project.  This online database will hopefully continue to grow throughout the summer.    

We also created this very blog to chronicle our journey this summer.  We plan to post regularly after every meeting in order to keep our mentors updated on our progress (as well as any other curious visitors to our blog).  Note that our goal is to eventually to create a blog on theinfinetwork.com, so this blog is sort of only a temporary arrangement.

Lastly, we made arrangements for a “special” meeting this Friday.  Stay tuned to find more!