I started in mid January and it lasted until the first week of May so this internship program was about 20 weeks. My schedule was Mondays-Fridays 9 am – 5 pm where I switched between working from home and in the office. I was on a full time availaI worked as a digital media intern and my responsibilities were anywhere from using content management systems for the museum’s website to analyzing site traffic and compiling reports. From this internship, I learned what it meant to be in MIS and how being so, can help an organization.
Digital Media Intern – The Franklin Institute
More specifically, the things I did at my internship involved:
- Created new and edited existing content on the content management system for fi.edu
- Hand-coded web pages using HTML and CSS
- Assisted with quality assurance and wrote technical documentation for The Franklin Institute’s microsites
- Tested and tracked The Franklin Institute’s mobile application for bugs and potential issues
- Ensured search engine optimization through metadata and keyword research
- Analyzed site traffic and compiled reports on traffic with Google Analytics
- Trained new interns on website and mobile application content