Week 2:
Global Zero

December 19, 2013

The second week is over and I’ve got lots of new updates about Global Zero! I have been given some new responsibilities on the social media front.  I am now the point man for three lesser known websites, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram.  I have been given the keys, so to speak, and it will be my responsibility over the coming weeks to come up with a plan to expand our presence there and try to achieve some growth views / connections / traffic back to the main website.  I have an exciting amount of freedom in how I do this, and I have been experimenting with a couple different models for new content.  In the past, Global Zero’s presence on the three new sites has been very limited, and all they had really done was repost facebook content on them.  I have some new ideas for specially tailored content that can play to the uniqueness of each different site and I hope that will have more of an impact than what we had been doing.

One challenging project I did last week was some legislative research about a life extension program for tactical nukes and the new 2014 Defense Appropriations bill working its way through Congress.  The Defense bill is one of those laws that is hundreds of pages long and nobody ever reads in its entirety.  I was tracking differences between the House and Senate version, and then wrote up a little report on the impact of the program and its budgeting. This was totally new territory for me and I had to sort of teach myself as I went along.

One of the most memorable days this last week was when the team did an all hands on deck mail-stuffing day.  GZ was sending out their holiday time letters asking for donations and there were over 2,000 letters that had to be stuffed. The whole team pitched in to make it go faster and we all spent the day around the conference table watching Netflix and assembly-linning the letters.

Over and out.