Journalism Major goes Blogger

Below is an introductory article I asked our intern Katie to write about herself. Katie will be working with us at Baldydog.com for the next semester. Adam

No matter what your major is, people make assumptions about your plans.  A chat with an old friend might turn into a mildly defensive speech about the options your future really offers.  I’m beginning my last semester as a journalism major – which means I’ll be applying at WaWa because newspapers everywhere are going bankrupt, right?  Luckily, I don’t really enjoy newspapers to begin with, and I’m learning that people can make a living online by writing about virtually anything interesting.  Over the course of the next few months, I hope to become an expert on blogging, search engine optmization and other concepts that made my head spin when I first started to soak it all in.  Okay, I’m not expecting to be the next John Chow (I know who he is now!), but I would love it if a few people read a blog that I wrote.

I wouldn’t say that I have always been interested in this kind of thing.  I fell into this internship by accident.  Home for fall break in October, I joined my mom and a couple of her girlfriends at a coffee shop where they were having lunch.  I sat down with a coffee and began chatting with Kate, a woman from church who I hadn’t had a chance to speak with in ages.  My major came up, and I told her I was looking for an internship.  I wanted to finish off college with as much experience as possible.  The internet came up as we discussed how popular online journalism has become – maybe even eliminating printed magazines and newspapers someday, but I wouldn’t count on it.  Anyway, noticing a connection between my need for some online experience and the blogs she has read, she mentioned her friend Adam Donkus, who works from his computer by blogging and running an SEO business called BaldyDog with his wife.  We got in contact, and now it’s January and I’ve begun the gradual process of developing my online presence.  I promised myself I would resist the new fad of “tweeting”, but now I have a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/kdoud10) if you would like to follow me.  You may also see me on Socialtivity and Baldydog – two sites built on concepts that are still foreign to me, but hopefully not for much longer.  Sometime before May, I might even have my own blog that you can check out!

Katie

Written by kdoud10 on January 6th, 2010 with 18 comments.
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