Backpacker Intern

I will be including three types of posts here.
1) Blogs/copywriting
2) Video projects
3) Website management

Descriptions-
1) Generally my blogs for the site were always done in a link-blogged process- meaning that each day I searched around the net on a variety of blogs (news, technology, sports, art, design, going green and the outdoors) including my ideas in an e-mail to my editor with a description of each. I was told which were the best of each day and set forth compiling blog posts. Generally each post was around 500 words and included around 2-5 links to each mentioned source, page or photo. These posts generally had no original reporting content, as it was a new media internship and increasing site-traffic and utilizing social media was very important. I could include polls, maps, photos, coordinates or videos as blog accompaniment. Since the internship was only two days per week, these blogs ate up many of my mornings. Expect me to share around 12 of my favorite blogs in the posts that follow.

2) The possibility of getting to shoot, edit and work with video was something that excited me. Because of daily blog duties, website and archive management, and our lengthy Gear Guide issue in April, I wasn't able to get to working with as much video as I would've liked. Never enough hours in the day right?

3) This final category of website and archival management is mostly what I spent my time doing. Although at times mind-numbing, this work was immensely important to keeping our site run as it should. This included all the small things that one would never think of when working on a website. It ranged from checking manufacture prices and styles with what we had for our articles, to linking to their sites and resizing photos to even the really minute techy-type stuff like finding dead links, entering page breaks, and fixing non-html-friendly content. It's safe to say that these type of fixes are what make a high-traffic website like Backpacker's run smoothly.

Each one of the posts will be grouped by category, i.e. all blogs will be posted one after another under their corresponding title post card.