Reflection of WEbook!

Through out a 6 week period I had an internship at WEbook, which is an online publishing company that's known for its user generated books. At WEbook I helped them go through projects on their website and look for interesting projects in which Id recommend for publishing, I've also worked on marketing and editing at WEbook. I helped WEbook come up with marketing ideas for an upcoming book and a coworker at WEbook showed me his editing methods and showed me how to use them, which I used to edit my previous blogs. They are many job positions at WEbook and to learn more about them I set up interviews with 2 of staff members at WEbook to learn more about there job, pay, experience and etc. From my experience at WEbook I must say I have learned very much as a student, employer and a person in general. I have learned how important certain skills are needed for jobs and their expectations and classes necessary to qualify for these jobs. At WEbook I became a different person then I was at school, taking on a more business like persona very concentrated on my work and completing all necessary work. This more business like persona was very different then how I am in school because at school I am more lay back and tend to slack on my work out of boredom but at WEbook I found my job interesting which helped me get more into my work. A job at WEbook whether its editing marketing or even production, Id find such a job very interesting for myself in the future and I believe this internship gave me a good training of these type jobs.

last day at WEbook

Sadly today is our final day interning at WEbook. Its been a great experience meeting new people and working in a different environment than school. Working here in WEbook for the past 6 weeks has been good and a learning experience for me. I got to see how it feels to work in a office job doing the type of work im interested in. Some of the things me and my fellow classmate did today was interview two of our co-workers here at WEbook. We asked them a couple of questions that we had on our interview sheet but we also got to ask more personal questions about them being here at WEbook. After we finish that me and my fellow classmate started to practice our lines for a video we was going to do for our project at school. We making a website and on that website we putting our video, pictures at WEbook and a little bit of information on what we do here and what WEbook is about. After we we done creating our web page we will be presenting it at our school Gala for our students, teachers and staff. As my day comes to and end here at WEbook i remember the past 6 weeks i been here and im glad i came and i don't regret one day.

Last day of internship at Webook!

Making an end to my journey here at WEbook, i must say I've had a wonderful time here at the WEbook office. I've had many experiences here at WEbook in which help me touch my more literal side and show me what it takes to be a employee at WEbook. There were many tasks for me today such as completing a project for school on the internship here. I interviewed 2 of my co-workers at WEbook whom had different job titles and helped me understand the requirements for a job here and what skills and classes are needed to have such a job and master a job title of that kind. Instead of making a poster for our project we decided to create a web page about our experience at WEbook, we also made a video for our website describing the WEbook website and its purpose to viewers. The web page is currently still in progress but I will use the web page for a presentation I have at my school's Gala. Though its been 12 days here at my internship time here has come to an end, I'd like to thank the company for letting my classmate and I be interns here and take part in a memorable lifetime experience.

Spring Break!!!

Finally back at Webook, its been two LONG weeks and i wish i can be sleeping still. Over the spring break i did a few exciting things. I went to the queens mall with my girlfriend and spent the whole day shopping there.I spent almost my whole vacation with her either in her house or outside walking around.Other days i went bike riding with my co-worker/best friend justin we went t0 Pelham bay in the Bronx,we also went to a skate park learned a few new tricks. I also caught up on alot of work i had to make up for school.Overall i had a good spring break it wasn't the best but it was better than the other school breaks i had this school year.

SPRING BREAK!!!

Returning back to the WEbook office this morning, after a quite bitter vacation. Spending my two weeks of relaxing and trying to make up work for school. I Had a lot of home alone days That i spend outside either riding my bike or painting canvas'. There were days were I hung out with a different group of friends each day and days i had spent alone studying. It wasn't the most exciting spring break ever but I made the most out of it that I could. Though the days i spent with my significant other made the vacation go by faster. Id say the most i did this vacation was express myself in art in many forms and take a few bad spills at the local skate park on my bike. Now it back to buisness for me this week. Had my time to slack and now its back to the books or as I should say now back to the WEbooks.

Internship Day 7 of 12

Hectic day today at WEbook, brainstorming for the release of an upcoming WEbook novel called ''The Legend of Vinny Wiskers". We had a meeting at our office today considering which type of audiences would find the book appealing and how in what was can we attract readers and other sources of reading such as blogs and Internet sites to really place this book on the market. Though we have came up with many ideas to advertise this novel to readers nothing is set in stone and finalized. This book may be a great book for young readers, that are more of the reading types interested in reading about a talking prairie dog in a war with rats. There also was another book on it was for production called "Shirt for Dessert", a children's book about a child who can break a habit of chewing on her clothes. This book is a great story for children and add some small humor to its text for the enjoyment of young, I personally think its good and would recommend it. Tomorrow, beginning a new day a further instructing of my marketing and editing skills here at WEbook, until then my day here has ended.

7th day of Internship

I feel like today was the longest day at Webook so far. While we was here we read a short story called "shirt for dessert" and a novel called "The Legend of Vinny Whiskers". After reading my classmate and i wrote down ideas we thought would be good to market the novel for different age and social groups. In my opinion i found the short story very interesting but i didnt really find the novel fun to read but younger readers may like it more than me. After coming back from lunch we had a a meeting in our conference room talking about the different ideas that can be used to market the book to sell more copies to a vast audience and to bring more people to Webook.

Internship Day 6 of 12

Half-way through my internship days, and I must say I have really progressed from the first day. Today I have worked on many different areas of WEbook On the Voting Section on WEbook today, I voted for 2 projects "Getting Older" and "Collection of Jokes". "Collection of Jokes" is a muti-author book of many jokes and "Getting Older" is about life tips you gain as a teen. Which I found both these topics not only interesting to myself though I think others would also enjoy to read a few funny jokes and teens would want to read some tips learned in life. I shared my voting choices with my colleagues at WEbook to display my opinion of what readers might want to read or find interesting, and I also showed them other books and projects in the voting section that i found interesting. This afternoon I read through WEbook's book called "101 Things Every Man Should Know How To Do" and my co-worker John showed me the editing process it takes from paper to finalization for a book and writing in general. Dan edited my previous blog entry to show me the simple literature mistakes that I commonly make and how to smoothen out my writing to make it better. These simple tools can even be used on the best writers in the industry because there are some simple mistakes that can be made and way to make your writing sound that much better. Now with these tools i will begin pre-editing my own work before finalization. To end my week I am going to continue reading the "101 Things Every Man Should Know How To Do", so for the WEbookers and other readers who do not have this book please read it there are many pages in the book that could make your day.

6th Day of Internship

Today at Webook my classmate and me worked on a few different tasks. Upon entering Webook in the morning we started to look for submissions that we would find interesting to vote for. Whenever we vote for a submission it gives a chance for the author to have their work publish. One submission i voted for is called "The Misguided Knight Dawn's Awakening". I voted for this submission because i found it a very interesting book that not only i would read but would attract a broad audience. Another submission i voted for is called "Beast" i liked this book because it seems different from books being publish now. As we looked for books we wanted to vote for we also had another task of looking for book that had many project leaders. As i looked for project with a few project leaders i found a submission that was very fun to read which was called "I Survived a Zombie Outbreak!" hopefully later i can find some time to finish reading it. After finishing this one of our co-workers helped us learn about different editing skills. He took one of our past blogs and edited it for us to see what mistakes we have and to show us what a editor does when he goes over a piece of writing. He also showed us past editing he has done on a book that has been publish by Webook which is called "101 Things Every Man Should Know How To Do". As today comes to an end i look back a i feel happy because im goin to go home knowing i learned something and accomplish something today.

5th day of internship

Today at internship me and my classmate was instructed to submit our own author to the 25 Random Things project. We picked J.K Rowling who is famous for writing the Harry Potter series. Me and my classmate split the anount of facts needed in half and exchanged our information in order to come up wit 25 different and not known facts about J.K Rowling. We visited a few sites in order to make sure the information we search up was consistant and simliar. After completing this project i gained some knowledge about j.K Rowling which is she one of the wealthest women in britain and shes even richer than the queen. As we finish the project our co-workers at webook explained once we finish making our pages for the 25 Random Things project we will look through the webook site and vote on submission that we think are interesting and we will be editing each other projects that we created last week for webook. Overall i enjoyed my day at webook and im becoming more comfortable with this work environment and more open to write down what i feel.

Internship Day 5 of 12

On WEbook there is an excerpt about 25 Random Things about an author, where you place 25 Random Things about an author of your choice. My partner and I chose to work on the author J.K. Rowling, and we came up with 25 uniquely random things about the author. Starting with her first failed marriage to having great success and remarrying, and also showing how she made her rags "to" riches change from being on welfare to being the 12th richest woman in Britain. We both came up with 12 things and then finally combined them after editing and revising each other's work. Tomorrow, we are going to vote on WEbooks projects that have been submitted for publishing. I have searched through a few projects in the voting section today, but have not made my final choices. I plan to look more thoroughly through the other projects and books in the voting section tomorrow before following up on other work. We are also going to make our Facebook pages tomorrow, and edit them to make them a little bit more personal and go through others pages to get the overall feel of Facebook. For now, my day here at WEbook has ended, but it is back to work for me tomorrow morning.

Intership Day 4 of 12

Pace-full day today, I assisted a fellow intern from my school helping him set up his blogger and finish off a project he wanted to create about what your last actions would be if u had 45 minutes to live. His project is still in production but contribution for the project can always be revised or renewed on different moods. I have also contributed to his project with a quick explanation of what Id do with such valuable time. Today I also began brainstorming authors for the 25 Random Things Project, I have not currently made a choice of a specific author but will begin to do so when I return back to the WEbook office next week. An adviser from my school visited me and my other class mate Today at the WEbook office to follow up on us to see how we are doing as interns and what type of work we are doing. Though i must say being a intern at WEbook is alot better than being in school. Next week i have a lot a few projects to work on such as the Facebook Fan Page project, Dan's SEO project and the First Click projects on the WEbook website. I have been thinking about adding a few of my very own projects to WEbook over the week and contribute to others work also. Yet again another productive week has come to an end but I am looking forward to coming back to the we book office next week. Have a good weekend Bloggers nd WEbookers!

4th day of internship

Today i created an gmail account for the use of blogger to blog about my day to day experience interning at webook. After acquiring blogger i went to the webook homepage and started my first project on the site. The project was about if you had 45 minutes to live what would you do i submitted a response to it to start it off for other people. A few hours later me and my classmate went to lunch while outside we discuss which authors we should use for our 25 randon things project we both are still undecided but will finish this next week when we return to webook. Once we got back to the office from lunch our advisor from our school came to visit and check up on us just to make sure we are on task we showed her what we been working on for the pass few days since we came to webook and she seemed proud of us. After she left my classmate showed me his old blog so i can get an idea what to write in a blog. Overall today was an good day and i enjoyed myself at webook.

Intership Day 3 of 12

I edited a previously unfinished project and completed it with my very own contribution. My project is called "Best Pranks" for an overall basis of all the best pranks you've ever made or heard or seen take place. For All the WEbookers here's the link to my project (http://www.webook.com/project/Best-Pranks). My contribution was just about camping trip prank I had made during the winter that ending up turning out as an all out war between two cabins, I sent out a few invites to my current colleagues at WEbook and feedback of my project and other contributions would be appreciated. I worked on creating my GMail account today for the use of Blogger and edited my Blogger profile but left room for a few finishing touches. WEbook has a vast amount of projects and books on its site and i seem to find something new everyday. The website can keep me occupied for a long time especially when responding to others work or creating my own, but the Humor section is always good too. Ive submitted my own article to a project called "The Poop Confessional" may have not been the best fit for all people especially those who easily find many things disturbing even in a literal way, But for the safety of those portions of people, Id say don't read or don't contribute if you don't have a sense of humor. Now to conclude my day with this blog, continue to write and type other WEbookers. I'm most likely brainstorming for the next upcoming book as you read this.

What's a WEbook Writing Tips Widget? Well I'm certainly glad you asked!

Sometimes, we're sitting here writing, trying our hardest to create new and exciting WEbook projects, and yet our brains fail us. Our creative juices run dry.

We know we're not the only ones who need a bit of help mid-day to keep us going. Which is why we've created a writing tips widget to get us through those most difficult brain failing moments. What's a widget, you ask? Well, I'll explain what a widget is to both you and my mom, who surely has never heard of this "inter-web type word."

Because we all love a multiple choice test (easier, right?), which is the best definition of widget?
a. A widget is a device placed in a container of beer to manage the characteristics of the beer's head.
b. Doodad: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
c. A widget is a live update on a website, webpage, or desktop. Widgets contain personalized neatly organized content or applications selected by its user.
d.A third party item that can be embedded in a web page.
e. all of the above

Answer: While it's true that "e. All of the above" is the correct answer, we're going to focus on"c" and "d" for the purposes of this post. Save answer "a" to impress your friends at happy hour.

The WEbook widget is a free, daily writing tip that you can embed on your facebook or myspace page, or even your very own blog. It's extremely simple to install - even us interns have figured it out!

Pretty much, all the cool kids are adding it to their networking pages, so why haven't you added it yet? Are you, dare I say it, uncool??

Add it NOW! http://www.webook.com/landing/Writing-Tips-Widget