Published by: ammado

Written by: Jody Monaghan

Well they say all good things come to an end, and so it is, the last week of my internship. I am nearing the six week mark which is where my time with ammado ends. It is incredible how much I have learned in the short time that I have been here and how much I feel I have achieved. I have had my work posted on the ammado homepage which I am really proud of, and seeing how the graphics team have treated my ideas in addition to the short time frame they work to has been really great. I now know for my future career the pressure you must feel to have such a short turnaround and so I’m going to work on that for sure. I have also learned an awful lot about online and digital activity. The workings of the site in addition to the support activity that goes into the maintenance of the facebook and twitter pages requires a lot of effort which is totally worth it. I am hoping to use a lot of what I have learned here in my own blog, I have set up a facebook page purely to support the site, so friends can leave me comments there or ask me questions about my own work or even just have a chat with me there instead of (or hopefully as well as) leaving me feedback on the blog itself. It has also been really nice working on creative projects every day, Christina Carey Shaw was great, each morning I would get a list of things to do, homepage adverts for various causes or other potential projects that may be in the works, though I always felt that I could make my own suggestions too. As a result a few more homepage adverts have been banked; I came up with concepts for Halloween and New Year’s Eve so you may see these appear on the site in the future.

After I leave the intern blog is going to be continued by my fellow intern Anna Wymes who is doing a press and communications internship here until Christmas. You will be guaranteed an interesting read from a different slant to my blog posts, and I know that I will be following the blog myself from home to keep up to date with what’s going on in the office. Before I sign off I just want to thank everyone in the Dublin office of ammado for being so nice, friendly and helpful during my brief stint here. The ammado team really are passionate about the work that they do and the causes which are voiced on the ammado site. I have had a great time and learned a lot over the past 6 weeks. I also want to thank you all for reading the blog, I will still be using my ammado profile so feel free to add me as a friend there if you would ever like to contact me. Finally good look to Anna in continuing the blog, I’m sure you will do a great job.