When I first walked through Alter Imaging’s fabulous doors as an official employee, I was about as excited as a girl could get (without something chocolate or sparkly dangling in front of her face). That being said, I was also a tad shaky/nervous/terrified/nauseated due to my, shall we say, “green-ness.”
I had just recently graduated from Appalachian State (Go Mountaineers!!) with a degree in Advertising, a minor in Business Marketing, and a vague understanding of the general working world. But I scored big with landing a dream-job at AI and I was confident that I was prepared for whatever tasks were thrown my way.
Little did I know, I knew very little.
I was first clued-in that I still had a lot to learn when someone said, “Emily, please FTP the XML sitemap for the SEO so we can boost our pagerank ASAP.” Umm, what?! Okay, ASAP means “as soon as possible.” And that was the extent of my comprehension of that sentence. I had to do something with a something for the something to boost our something, as soon as possible.
So I did what any resourceful, 20-something would do: I
threatened befriended the web developer and
forced asked him to teach me important web lingo. If I heard a term I was unfamiliar with, I would write it down and later go get the definition from my new
victim teacher. It was a beautiful system.
Often when I speak with clients, a term or web process comes up that they’re not familiar with, so I (with my newfound knowledge) would explain it to them so we’re all on the same page.
And then I had an epiphany.
As any growing company, we're always on the look out for the best and the brightest people to join our team. Lately, we've been hiring quite a bit and it's always interesting to see the kinds of things people actually do either submitting their resume or in the interview. So I"ve listed a quick do's and don't list to follow when interviewing with Alter Imaging. All of the "don'ts" I list might seem funny, but trust me, they've all happened. I couldn't make this kind of stuff up!
We're back! This past weekend a few of us from AlterImaging headed down to Austin, TX to get our yearly fix of all things internet. This year was a little different from past years in that there were no huge announcements in the realm of social media and no clear winner of the "next big thing" title. Yes, Twitter did announce their @anywhere add on which should help boost twitter's adoption rate but this years conference definitely seemed to revolve around how things are evolving. For example, the next generation of web languages - HTML5 and CSS3 and how this affects web design. Subsequently there was also a lot of talk and debate about how Flash is dead due to the fact these coding languages along with Javascript are taking it's place and rightly so.
Welcome to AlterNation Episode 5. On this episode, we're talking about the importance of having a mobile version of your site, as well as creating content on a regular basis.
