CDE Internship Day 3: Storyboards, Slide Shows and SEO

Balsamiq is a great program for industry standard, low-fidelity wire-framing and today I utilized it to create storyboards for my ShopWindow Takeaway video. Having this storyboard helps guide our future efforts in preparing for our video shoot. It is scripted out by shot sequence with scene setting descriptions and talking points all in one document.

After creating the storyboard, I went to task on expanding the "Takeaway" video and transforming it into the scaffolding for my 1st webinar. After researching past & present implantation of QR Codes in business, I developed a slideshow to show Gavin & Nate my newly created Webinar foundation. They liked it! They said they liked it, so now my job is to add detail into the mix, specific areas of interest we wish to highlight and include some of the benefits of signing up with ShopWindow.

In addition to ShopWindow, Bud made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I am now working double-duty, I'm also an intern at TechStak. Nicol, CEO at TechStak, and I have had a couple of phone conversations about their vision and goals for me this summer. I'm a wee bit intimidated to take on 2 companies to intern for, but how can I turn down an opportunity double my experience with this program?

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CDE Internship Day 9: TechStak - Meeting My Partner & New Website Launch

I finally met my partner Jessica Finley. We had a group strategy meeting at Spark Central today. The new TechStak website went live ( click to see the new site ). Nichol took us on a tour of the new design and showed us some new features. Unintentionally, we had an opportunity to troubleshoot the re-design, find small formatting errors and mislabeled sections, noting major, but important. They were able to trim 60 pages of unnecessary site data; dead links, repeated information, ect. Having the team all gathered in one place, I was able to demonstrate my prototype Chatbot to them. Once again, I received great feedback, a little constructive criticism and made some changes right there at the conference table. It was valuable for me to get instant feedback on my 1st Chatbot creation. With one Bot pretty much in the books, I've been re-focus to Conversational Landing Pages. What are those?!? Drift has the ability to start a Bot conversation in a landing page, video or whitepaper....

CDE Internship Day 11: ShopWindow - Story Design

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CDE Internship Day 12: TechStak - ChatBot Deployment

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