Mentorship 2

Here is the evidence I have completed 25 hours
Mentorship

Literal

• Amy Crow, San Dimas Library 

•  acrow@library.lacounty.gov

Interpretative

• I was able to see how essential social media networks are for a business by researching and writing a 8 page paper on how to integrate it to a library. This is the most important thing I gained in mentorship because it gave me a taste to learn how to write a business plan as well as observe and analyze a Facebook page without bias.  

Applied

• This helped me answer my EQ because I noticed how people interact with businesses, which is definitely a lot different in how they act on their actual page with their actual friends. 

Mentorship 1

Literal

• Mentorship log
• Amanda Riddle @ LA Youth ariddle@layouth.com
• Amy Crow @ San Dimas library (909) 599-6738)

    
Interpretive

• The aspect of mentorship for my project failed. I failed to maintain a stable mentorship where I learned how to utilize social media networking to better the community. Although this is the reality of my mentorship component, I did gain a lot from the experience of finding a mentor. I think that the biggest lesson for me was that I had to learn how to network out to people outside of email, but way too late. I believe that emailing was the biggest mistake I made while looking for a mentor, because it did not allow people to take me seriously when I asked to job shadow due to the specialty of my topic. I feel that if I were to had networked and met people, I would had never gotten myself in this predicament and been somewhere great as far as mentorship goes. 
  
  I hope to take what I learned from the failure of my mentorship and apply it to my life after senior project, since it is so essential to stand out from emails nowadays. I am happy that I learned this before I entered the work force, however it is a bummer it costed me my senior project. But, I am staying positive and know that the research I did to compensate for my mentorship will be seamlessly applied to my 2 hour and I will do good :) 

  
Applied

• Surprisingly, my mentorship experience really reestablished the relevance and truth about my EQ. Because I relied on email, I failed to meet the expectations I set for myself in finding a mentor. Although I did not job shadow under a social networker, or can find any meaningful relevance of LA Youth to my EQ (not to say that there was not any), I realized that I myself have been affected my social media networking and fit my answers. I see an example in myself of how it has changed our lifestyles, based on the fact that I was too scared to network out from my comfort zone, as well as belonging to the group of people that see it normal to base communication off of email. 

*This is part 1 of my mentorship blog; I plan to update this when I complete all 50 hours like everyone else. 

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hour check

1. I am doing my mentor ship at LA Youth.

2. Amanda Riddle, ariddle@layouth.com
    (323) 938-9194

3. The total hours I have done are 13 hours and 40 minutes, three meetings in total while additional time writing my story for LA Youth. I want to try to include the time taken to drive there, since its two hours both ways. If I include the travel time, I have about 20 hours.

4. The 10 hours I have completed have included attending the Saturday meetings in LA, participating in newspaper style meetings where we express our opinions on topics, talk about the ideas of other writers, and giving feed back on the essays that are submitted to the newspaper. I am also working on my own by writing a piece for LA Youth about piercings and self image.