Let's Get Technical: The Programs & Apps You Should Know For Your Internship
Thursday, March 8, 2012
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PC and Mac girls can agree: computer savvy comes easy to us Millennials. Whether we’re downloading apps or building our Twitter readership, we certainly know our way around our favorite gadgets. Our computer skills are required and beneficial in the workplace, so there are some universal programs and web applications that all collegiettes™ should know about. Here, HC rounds up our favorites so you can rock your internship and eventually—your career.
Meet GoogleDocs: Your new best friend!
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Google Docs
This collaborative online instrument navigates its way through my e-mail accounts for everything from Her Campus to school to my internship at O, The Oprah Magazine. With all of the functionality of Microsoft Office, you can share documents with others, view changes, and chat with them about said changes in real time. “Google Docs is an incredibly useful as an organizing and business tool,” says Hofstra University design professor and president of design company MediaA, Tom Klinkowstein. Start a Google Doc with your fellow interns to keep an ongoing project organized and you’ll be golden. Just make sure everyone has a Gmail account so they’ll be able to edit the docs, not just view them.
Lucidchart.com
Did your boss ask you to assemble data in an easy-to-read format? Don’t fret—No need to pull out Microsoft Office for this assignment. LucidChart allows you to design charts for any purpose including business analysis, networking diagrams, flow charts and more. Access the site from anywhere and collaborate with fellow interns or your supervisor in real time.
Todo.ly
Strut in on a Monday with a long agenda? Who needs post-its when todo.ly is the go-to spot for virtual to-do list-making? Prioritize your internship projects with the site’s filters, drag and drop options, and hierarchal grouping all of free of charge.
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Biography
Gennifer Delman is a senior journalism major at Hofstra University with a minor in fine arts. Raised in Rhode Island, Gennifer loves going to school 35 minutes away from New York City. She is currently an intern at Hearst Business Media. Her past projects/internships have included: Cosmopolitan, Glamour, O, The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Hearst Digital Media, and "Be Your Own Best Publicist". On campus she is an undergraduate admissions ambassador and president of Ed2010. You can likely spot her creating a playlist on Spotify or reaching out to amazing women to feature in the HC career profiles section, How She Got There. Gennifer hopes to pursue a career in magazine media once she graduates.
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Comments
So far I was only familiar with Google docs but apparently there are other applications too that deserve better attention. IT technology management is getting tougher and tougher if we don't keep some guidelines, there are too many options and we risk losing more time reviewing applications that using them. I just like to keep things simple, thanks for the recommendations!
And just to add something - know your social media networks, too. The reality is most employers will look at you as a young person and just assume that you know social media. Chances are that responsibility might fall into your lap. Brush up on best practices, poke around looking at settings and such, most importantly sign up and try using it for a while to get to know it from a user standpoint.
- Danielle Hohmeier, Online Marketing Manager Atomicdust.
http://www.atomicdust.com/
For anyone who uses a lot of pdf files I find the programme 'mendley' extremely useful; it is an efficient way of organising lots of these files, and even gives you citations for each (handy for students!). It's free too.
This was so great. Thanks!
Might be helpful to add a link directly to Lucidchart, since you have one for todoly and Google Docs is pretty obvious! :)
I actually discovered a few new programs here. Thanks!
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