This past week the 3 amazing interns of the Valuation Services department here at Dwellworks received an email regarding an exciting project that we were asked to work on. Catherine, Kevin and I were instructed to become experts at the app called Google Hangout. Our task was to figure out how to set up a Gmail account for the Cleveland office to use, download and explore the Google Hangout app, and essentially become masters at navigating all of the functions within it, specifically the video calling aspect of it.
We then had to figure out how to use the camera in the office’s main conference room. The end goal was to utilize this application in order to hold team meetings with our on-site Cleveland employees, as well as with the various people who work from an off-site location, through a video conference. Google Hangout is very similar to Facebook messenger but with the option to have video or “Face-Time" calls. Using this app allows you the ability to text, make phone calls nationally and internationally, send pictures, share documents, utilize the screen sharing function, and make video calls with up to 9 people at a time - and all for free. You can use this wonderful little app on any kind of computer and on any type of phone as long as you have a Gmail account, the Hangout app, and a camera on the device you wish to use it on.
So we started out our assignment by downloading the app on each of our phones to get familiar with it. Then, we set up a meeting in the office conference room to get them all set up with it in there. After mastering the ins and outs of the app, we set up a meeting for the following day to present our expertise and our findings to employees within our Cleveland office, along with a handful of off-site employees who were going to need to know how to set up and navigate it for future use.
We presented to about 14 Dwellworks employees total that day. The off site employees watched exactly what we were doing on our computer screen in the conference room here in Cleveland and listened to our instructions intently.
We walked them through step by step how to download Google Chrome, set up a Gmail account, download the Hangout app, navigate the various functions, and how set up and participate in a group video conference. They all listened intently, caught on quickly, and were a wonderful audience I must say.
The presentation went flawlessly and everybody was extremely excited to use this wonderful new tool and very appreciative and grateful for our efforts and our instructive presentation which guided them through each and every step of the way.
I really enjoyed working on this for the office because it was so fun and technology comes so very naturally for our generation. It was great to see how us interns can use our knowledge of technology to really help out an office and improve how a business operates simply by navigating and sharing this information with them.
What can I say, interns rock! :)
Brittany Orwin
Valuations Services Intern
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