In Plain English (or French, or Spanish)

Many millennials (including IMLPs and those who blog here!) are often called upon to answer questions and explain social media.

And I'm no exception. While home for Thanksgiving (and at the dinner table) members of my immediate family stared back at me with blank faces when I brought up social media and blogging.

For this, and many other confusing topics, including cloud computing, I call upon YouTube. One of my favorite points of reference are the "In Plain English" videos - which are now available in multiple languages via dotSub.

Comment, Comment, Comment!

And now, a quick message from our sponsors.

Ok so we know you're reading people. That's right, we can see you, we're watching you. Put down that twinkie, finish reading this and post some comments on our blog posts! (Please).

Our bloggers love hearing from you. Write what comes to mind when you read one of our posts.

Of course we have to make sure its rated PG but feel free to ask questions: about us (the New Media Team or the IMLPs in general), or even about the specific bloggers.

We are here to inform, and maybe, just possibly, you might think we're funny and cool at the same time (we like to think so).

Also, just a brief reminder, next week our bloggers will be posting on their recruiting experiences from their respective schools. So be on the lookout for information regarding your home school!

Seeing Ash...

Smoke from the LA Fires looking through my Mirror on the 101 FreewayTime - 5:30am Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Location: LA, Studio City
First Rotation IMLP at NBCU: Information Security Governance
Local Weather: 80 degrees and cloudy with a chance of ash?
 
Yeah, you read that last part correct; Ash.

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IMLP Blog: Behind the Scenes.

Behind the Scenes... Thanks to flickr's StephenMitchell for this photo!Hey, it's Alana- your friendly blog editor.

Although you may not be able to tell just by reading this blog or one particular post, there's a lot going on behind the scenes...

The IMLP Blog "went live" in August of 2008 (so we're coming up on our 1 year birthday) and was the first leadership program blog of it's kind here at GE (We're pretty proud of it!).

The premise behind the blog is to provide you (the reader) some background on what life is like as a member of the Information Management Leadership Program directly from those who are currently experiencing it (interns too!). So, as IMLPs, we write in this blog as a side gig (in addition to managing systems projects).

Every six months, members of the IMLP program take on a new project and learn to work directly with a new team... and sometimes this takes place in a different city, state, or country.

Take June 2009 for example. Right now, those in their 4th (and final) rotation of the program are interviewing for off-program jobs, while 2nd/3rd rotationers are waiting to hear about their next assignments, and 1st rotationers are getting ready to kickoff the program at the end of this month before heading to Junior Bootcamp for the month of July.

So,  let us know how we're doing. Send me an e-mail directly (I'm nice, I promise), leave us a comment, or bookmark our site to keep up-to-date on the life happenings of an IMLP.

life update 6/17: My next rotation will be in Houston, Texas for Oil & Gas. More to come in the blog on my cross-country adventure.