Fall Internship Blog: Greg Gwynn
Introduction
Hi! My name is Greg Gwynn and I am a senior from Olathe, Kansas studying strategic communications with an emphasis in public relations. I am not entirely certain on where my communications career will take me, but I am passionate about non-profit work and I currently see myself entering that sector post-graduation.
My Internship
I’m fortunate enough to be carrying over my summer internship into this fall. The internship is with a consulting firm called EnVisage Consulting based here in Manhattan, Kansas. EnVisage is a private consulting firm that mainly provides software development/support and communications support for non-profits and government agencies. Most of the groups we work with are public-health based non-profits, and state and federal emergency management agencies.
My role at EnVisage is as a Digital Communications intern. When I first started the role this past summer I mostly worked with the other communications interns and gathered social media analytics for our partners applying for grants. As time as moved on, I grew more comfortable in my skillsets and adopted new ones such as programming with HTML and CSS. This fall my main responsibilities now include being the lead web developer for our two non-profit partners, Immunize Kansas Coalition and Kansas Maternal and Child Health Coalition. Along with this I have maintained my previous responsibilities of social media content creation and engagement for our non-profit partners, and I also do regular IT and server maintenance for EnVisage, falling back on my experience as an IT Technician at the College of Business (A job I also still work alongside EnVisage).
(Below are links to Kansas Maternal and Child Health Coalition, and Immunize Kansas Coalition, these are the two main partners I develop for, but I will develop for other projects as well.)
Current Project
EnVisage has been such a great place to work, as I’ve gotten opportunities to work on so many diverse projects. However, I would say that the bulk of my work has remained focused on the web development for our non-profit partners. Them being in the public health sector, there is always new information that needs to be distributed. This information must be timely and it must be conveyed accurately.
Recently Kansas Maternal and Child Health Coalition has launched an initiative with the University of Kansas called “Kansas Connecting Communities” (KCC). This initiative aims to provide resources and support for physicians and others in the health sector who are working with maternal and child patients who require psychiatric consultation. They had been trying to get in contact with us to develop an entirely new section on our website for them, but for some reason we had not been reached by them until two days ago. This meant that I had by the end of the day to develop a web page for them from scratch and make sure it met every desire that they had. (They had provided a multi-page document with their desired layout and information displayed)
Through my work with EnVisage, I have become so much more confident in my ability as a communications professional, and it has given me great experience working with non-profit organizations and the insight into how they function and communicate has been extremely valuable for me. I am immensely grateful that I received the opportunity to work at EnVisage over the summer, and am even more grateful that I still get to carry over my internship this fall and continue my communications work with them.