This is the first post about my experience thus far interning at Collective.  Ben and Jess are wonderful people whom I have the pleasure of working alongside.  Jess is Ben’s assistant and has given me the framework of my role at Collective.

The first thing I noticed was the tech savy nature of the workplace.  Communication is done through Gmail, Evernote, and Dropbox.   After getting acquainted with how things worked, I was given my first couple of assignments.  The first assignment I completed was a promotional poster for a Superbowl tailgate they were having.  So I went outside, took a picture of the parking lot, and brought the picture into Photoshop.

Having the knowledge of working with Photoshop really helped with this assignment.  I just threw in some effects alongside text describing the event, blurred certain parts of the image and adjusted the coloring.  After the image was made I had to make a Facebook event for the tailgate, inviting the different groups for the event.

Another task I do every week is invite people to the weekly Collective service on Facebook as well as the other events throughout the week they host.  After each service on Sunday, I pull the audio and create a podcast.  I usually compress the audio file in Logic and then upload this to the Pod Bean account they have (this is a podcast hosting service).  After the podcast is made, I make a blog post for their website through New York Ave compiling the podcast, a service summary written by the other intern, and the images corresponding to that event.