"building the capacity of public media and technology organizations"
The 3rd week had more updating for the www.4people.org website. I completed updating the county listings for Eastern Washington and started on the county listings for Western Washington (Clark, Clallam, Grays Harbor got done -- started on Island county on Friday).
Week 2 of my VISTA year was more of the same from the first week. I'm still working on cleaning up the service listings for the counties on the 4People website. While tedious, it's rewarding knowing that when people look at the county listings, they'll be more accurate with regard to the exterior links. (www.4people.org)
So I've been here for a little over two weeks. It's very interesting, I'm working on researching the digital divide. My first project has been to visit different communty computer labs and have them fill out surveys. I'm creating a database of all of the computer labs in tri-county area of Southern Florida.
Comment from Kevin Bulger on July 9, 2007 - 12:23pm
And Victoria is doing a good job. Plus, she is very popular.
Comment from danielle martin on July 11, 2007 - 5:00pm
If you're doing all that in two weeks, then you're being more than efficient!
We're doing almost the same exact project up here in Boston at MassIMPACT, trying to create a working database and map of Neighborhood Network technology centers (in housing developments), complete with a survey. I've actually got a couple interns working on it, one of which is a former CTC VISTA, Shannon McCue, who's also doing a project to create a database of community technology resources for folks with disabilities. We even hired Ben to build the database. We should definitely compare notes.
-Danielle
Comment from Ross Musselman on July 16, 2007 - 11:53am
Victoria,
It sounds like you have had a great start! Enjoy the downtime now, because I would be willing to bet that it will wane as your year progresses. :)
I see why you are amused by the Playstation. Have they explained why they want a Playstation? I think that it could be really cool. I actually know some seniors who play to maintain hand-eye coordination. I also know some seniors who play with their grandchildren as a means to create connection. I'm not saying there aren't other tools, but it demonstrates the practical (and productive) applications that are possible.
Keep up the excellent work!
Ross
Ross Musselman
ross@zanlus.com
I've completed my 1st week of work, all done by telecommuting. The work has been tedious -- I've been updating the county service listings and directories in the 4people database, www.4People.org . In the process I learned a little bit of HTML and more about MS Word. Boy, are my eyes swimming!
Comment from Ben Sheldon on July 2, 2007 - 10:19am
Hi Marylin, did you get a tele-orientation? :-) Will you be telecommuting the entire time or is this just temporary?
Updating organizations sounds pretty tedious; too bad to teach you have to do. I hope you're learning a lot though about the process and probably the problems as well. Do you have any ideas yet on how you're going to create a training manual for it?
Keep up the great work!
Comment from Morgan Sully on July 10, 2007 - 2:04pm
Hey Marilyn,
just checking in to say hi. I'm a bit of a tedious geek myself when cleaning up data. I love figuring out ways to clean large amounts of it (though it can sometimes be all consuming:)
Sorry to hear about your horse. Maybe you could post some pictures?
Hope your VISTA years is going well,
m
ps. http://www.freecycle.org is a good resource to find free stuff (like bales of hay perhaps).
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