Workin' on the Web

This was probably my first official web shift since the summer. It's weird because I've come full circle in a sense. My first shift at KOMU was the paid web shift a year ago... now I'm one of the freebies helping the paid person. I will say this... once you learn it though, it's hard to forget. I might not have done web in about 6 months, but I still remember how to post everything like video and images.

I came in and my partner in crime, Nick Guillory was already posting the dayside stories. Most of the reporters had their copy written and the earlier web person, Kat Lucchesi, had already saved the images.

Slowly but surely, we got everything up. At one point we thought we had a deadline of 7:20 because the video transfer system from NewsCutter to ACM was being updated. Thankfully we got most of it pushed over before the deadline. We missed the Caring Familes pkg by Meredith Miller, but the story went up and added the video later.

My pride and joy of the night was the slideshow I made for the Sarah's Story on the champion cake maker that works at HyVee. It was actually really easy on flickr. Not going to lie... the idea came from Kat. Talk about teamwork.

Nick and I started working on the nightside reporter's story. He's a grad student and it was his first shift so we wrote his vosot for him. We also worked on getting images and video. Video was having some issues once they upgraded the transfer system from NewsCutter to ACM -- the Sarah's Story video never went through, and then it took about 30 minutes for the three pieces of video we cut from the 10 p.m. show to transfer.

All in all, it's great to be back on the web.