Intel Job Shadow

Today I got the opportunity to job shadow a family friend, Jan Ohman, who is the Editorial Director of Employee Communications at Intel. Basically she is in charge of a team who produces Circuit, Intel's intranet for their 82,000 employees with news stories, corporate videos, and other content.

Some highlights I learned while at Intel:

• Intel offers it's employees free coffee and soda!
  
• Intel Twitters
• Intel is the #1 2008 Corporate Citizen
• Intel has accounts with Facebook and Dreamworks
• Intel is very pro-diversity and ergonomics focused

I got to sit in on a Circuit meeting with Jeremy Schultz, David Spencer, Krista Vasquez and Philip Davis. Some things in the meeting that sparked my attention:

• Focus Group Research Break Downs (I felt like I was back in GB301)
• Discussions about Intel's plasma TVs (they are attempting to go paperless - Bentley is the same way) and how to improve their effectiveness
• Local news
• Placement
• Internal news
• Emergency information
• TV/Gaming
  
• Discussions about Intel's Press Releases (and how blogging has become almost more effective - reminded me of Isreal's book - Naked Conversations)

Did I mention I got a sneak peek at Intel's Q3 video?

All in all an awesome experience. I got to meet a ton of people and had the chance to network. Hopefully something will come out of today!