After a good amount of face time with Bruce - asking as many questions as I could think of (in a way that didn’t say “I have no idea what Search Engine Optimization is…”) and a big handful of google searches, I felt pretty confident that I would actually be of some use at the Workshop we put on with Comerica Bank this morning.

This is what you get for assuming you have a good handle on things:
Hours of meticulous preparation had paid off, our handouts were streamlined and beautiful in their super-fly translucent folders and the slideshow Bruce did was very informative and straight-forward… there was only one hitch. During the “breakout sessions,” the part where the attendees interact with one another and I’m supposed to help them come up with some potential solutions to their current website (and business) needs, I was pretty much clueless as to what to say to help out (STILL!) and therefore, bore all of the tell-tale signs of the new employee…. a.k.a., the deer in the headlights.

So maybe there are few things left to learn.

All said, at the end of the day it was an overwhelming success. Bruce told me that, right away, we got two red-hot client leads (whatever that means) and then gave me strawberry Pop Rocks.

I wonder what’s on the docket for tomorrow??

So, here it is! Your first blog to read, my first week at Dynamic Edge and perhaps the first ever exposé into the minds of the SuperTech by a very non html-writing, computer-wiring, software programming person.

I thought Monday would be a day to get my toes wet. No. After eight+ hours of interviews and countless email correspondences, I really should have known better. From my limited standpoint, I can say this one thing: If nothing else, these guys are thorough… very thorough.

A quick summary of my very first day, for your enjoyment:

1. Arrived early after trying to figure out Ann Arbor’s metro transportation. No easy task!
2. Filled out a mountain of paperwork, assuring Thom that I am (in fact) eligible to work in the United States and its territories.
3. Begin training.
4. First homework assignment: Must be able to describe exactly what DE does… (*note to self - google “Dynamic Edge”)
5. Sudden Realization! OMG! We’re doing a workshop tomorrow at Walsh College and I’m supposed to be able to explain to people what Search Engine Optimization is. (*note to self - google “Search Engine Optimization”)
6. Sudden Realization #2… I have no idea what I’m doing!
7. Get new company laptop to use. This eases my frenzy quite a bit, but is more like Christmas morning when you open up all your new toys and then get whisked over a river and through the woods to Grandma’s house… where the food is good, but there are no toys.
8. Lunch, and Getting to know you time with Bruce, Tim and Debra.
9. Ranchero Meeting: This is where they look at all the good things that my new co-workers are doing and decide if they’re going to give them Cow Awards and Honorable Mentions - I’ll describe these down the road when I get one
10. Now the real work starts. From 3 ’till 10 we hammer out the slide show, worksheets graphics and half a million details that will go into tomorrow’s presentation. (As it turns out there were actually a full million to-do’s, but we didn’t make it through all of them.)
11. Wonder to self: Did I forget to ask Bruce if we were doing 4-twelves this week? I really should have asked this question in one of my many hours of interviews or copious emails…
12. Debra drives me to my sister’s house where I: eat really fast, shower furiously because there won’t be time tomorrow morning… we’re leaving here at 6:15 a.m., and pass out on the couch where I’m sleeping for the next 5 nights. (In that exact order.)

It’s good. I will survive.

ttyl,
storm