Report on First Term at Code ComputerLove

1. Report on First Term at Code ComputerLove

2. Work within the group Ritesh: • User Experience – Analysing a phone call for research on the woodland trust – 1 Hour • Filing past invoices & sorting – 1 Hour 30 Minutes • User Experience – Testing a car website for usability and friendliness – 30 Minutes • SEO – Link building course – Took a whole day but not technically billable hours, also created a presentation based on this which has been sent around. • User Experience – Woodland Trust short presentation on NGO websites analysing user experience, quality and friendliness. – 2 Hours • SEO – Working on the Carrier Account: - Researching luxury websites - Using open site explorer to analyse links different websites have, download these as a spread sheet then organising these to unique domain names using different formulas. - Testing as many as possible to find links worth contacting. Analysed 207 links, found 100 either definitely or possibly worth contacting. – 16 Hours (ongoing over 2/3 weeks). Total Billable Hours – 21 Hours (Approx)

3. Ben: • User experience – • Listened in and took notes on phone call to woodland trust stakeholder – 1 Hour• Testing The Car People website for usability – 0.5 hour• Workshop about UX inside Code – 1.5 Hour • Design/Developers• Photo sourcing and “lightboxes” for music app – 2 Hour• Research current music apps/screenshots – 2 Hours • iPad App Research – 1 Hour • SEO – Link building course 7 Hours (training) • Research for Tony - the changes and trends in digital marketing – 2 Hours Total Billable Hours - 10 hours (Approx)

4. Lois: • Oxfam account – Analysing Bugs – 3 Hours • Infographics – 1 Hour • Events Calendar – 5 Hours • Research Charities – 1 Hour • Online Press Clippings – 4 Hours • Feedback Presentation – 1 Hour 30 Minutes • Workshop UX – 1 Hour 30 Minutes • PR Monitoring – 3 Hours 30 minutes • Pinterest Analysis – 1 Hour Total Billable Hours – 21 Hours 30 Minutes (approx)

5. Tom: NUS • Brainstorming for campaign ideas • Looking at other successful referral schemes • Incentives for referral schemes for NUS • Started to do the questionnaire • 3 or 4 hours Woodland Trust (today) • Looking for photos to personify hypothetical characters • 3 hours or so, most probably Link building course • Went through it recently • 1 hour Digital marketing industry research • Spend • Budgets • Consumer stats • Projected spends • Segments of marketing that have generated customers for business • Forecasts • 2 hours Total Billable Hours: 9 Hours

6. Ellie: • PR Monitoring- 4 hours • Pinterest- 1 hour • Events Research and Calendar- A day • Charity Research- 1 hour • SEO training- 1 hour • Folder sorting out- 1 hourTotal Billable Hours – 16 Hours

7. Total Billable Hours Between Group – 77 Hours 30 Minutes

8. Feedback Received Lois & Ellie’s Feedback: PR monitoring“it was a really good start and the individual tasks were completed efficiently.”Events Calendar“Really good start, you have identified a number of conferences and provided a depth of information about them.”Research“The work was completed efficiently, and I like how you were able to get on with the task straight away. I appreciate that I had to brief you quite quickly before going into a meeting so I think you made a good start with little guidance.”Recommendations“Moving forward it would be good if you can dig a little deeper for more authoritative sources. For example in this case instead of looking at BBC news, it could have been more effective to start with a publication like Third Sector, from their try to find out what their sources are, so if they quote the CAF report, then go and find that report. This is where the credible nuggets of information that we need will be.” “Great effort to date. I think you have an opportunity to really add value to the team, and I hope that you can pick up some skills along the way that will help you not only at University but in your future careers

9. Ritesh’s Feedback: SEO “Presentation on link building course: I felt that this was picked up really well and that all of the information in the course was taken on board & used in the following work”“The quality of websites being filtered through is good and is using all of the knowledge picked up from the link building course”“Ask questions: It has been clear that whenever there are questions or concerns with the work that questions have always been asked to clarify things. This is key to ensure work being done isn’t the wrong things.”Improvements needed…“It is useful for me to understand how much time you have to spend on the tasks so I can manage my expectations. ““The number of websites assessed so far is good, although a few more would have been better. This is obviously a learning curve and something brand new though, so I wouldn’t expect output at the same rate as we do “

10. Summary – Traffic Light What shall we carry on doing? • Keep emailing, and networking with ‘clients’.• Being on time and organised. Stop doing? • Keeping our work to ourselves and not sharing as a group.• Lack of routine. Start doing? • Need to communicate with each other share our learning experiences.• Start the day by asking what each other have to do.• Feedback to each other at the end of the day.• Use board more often.• Use each other’s skills to improve.