Reflections

Having the opportunity to work with San Francisco Pride these past four months have been so much more valuable than I thought. Not only was I able to lend a helping hand to a non-profit organization, but I was able to contribute and learn from the community. The shadowing I did with Imani gave me a chance to learn about the non-profit environment. There were a lot of similarities to my regular paid job although I did find working in a non-profit to be more touch based.

The community reach out along with the social mingling with local government, businesses, community, and other non-profits really brought light to the environment I was in. Though there was a lot of training to be done for both on the staff and volunteers, I found it quite exciting to learn with the crowd being apart of both parties.

I did end up doing a lot of office work to help out the organization but I was also able to contribute some insight to new technologies that may continue to help the current staff with outreach duties.

As I have mentioned, I have chosen to work on a San Francisco Pride celebration training portal as my ITEC 894 project. I believe the research and skills I have gained with this opportunity will help to better build a successful training portal. I will be building out training in the Information Booth for now as I have gained the most information about this area of duties. I will be looking further as next semester starts.

I will continue to lend spare time to San Francisco Pride in the future. The relationships that have been built are priceless. I hope to be able to continue to bring something new to the organization and the community.

Holidays are busy times for everyone!

I really haven't had much time to do much of anything lately. Not only have I been sick with some weird flu (not to worry, not the swine flu), but I have been trying to rush to get someo of my other school projects finished.

This week I actually spent most of my time at Pride working on personal items. I did check in with Imani but there was nothing for me to do. She was busy getting a bunch of things done herself. So as I sit her in this room I am writing my blog and working on a report for my other class. I did tell Imani that I am on stand by if she needed me for anything. I drove all the way up there.. I might as well be of some use.

Reflecting on the past few months, I actually think that I have learned a lot. I will be writing this in my concluding blog entry. I hope that I can use what I've learned here to add something to my 894 project.