Our initial meetings

February 15th, 2008

Our service learning group planned to meet with the communications director of the Women’s Community Clinic today, her name is Anne Purdy. Once everyone arrived at the Clinic, located at 2166 Hayes St. Suite #104 at 12:30 for our meeting we each spoke a little about ourselves in the plaza and eventually made our way in. Because the Clinic has walk-in clinic hours available to the public on Fridays, we were not able to get a real tour of the place. Instead we all squished into Anne’s office, (noting that the entire clinic seemed to be smaller than we expected) and were given a short PowerPoint presentation by Anne. She introduced us to what the Clinic is generally about and what is currently going on with their new image makeover. Anne then decided that it might be a good idea to relocate to a nearby coffee shop so we could talk about our project more comfortably. Once in the coffee shop we were given more details that with the expansion and relocation of the Clinic to a bigger and better spot, the Clinic is also hoping to update their image and website. We spent the rest of the meeting talking with Anne about what possible roles our team could be taking on to contribute to the overall project, and asking questions that any of us had. By the conclusion of the meeting Anne had a list of things that she promised she would email to us, and we made plans that our group will meet during the school week to work on our project proposal. Once the project proposal is done we told Anne that we will send her a copy to look over.


February 20, 2008

Today our team met @ 1:30 in Parina Lounge to work on our project proposal that is due by this Monday. Using what we learned at the Friday’s meeting with Anne and the material that she emailed to us, we discussed our ideas and strategy. We decided to split up the write-up so that each member has a piece of the assignment to work on. Each person is to type up their part and email it to Jessica by Thursday night so that she can proofread and paste everything together. The completed copy is to be sent out to everyone, including Anne by Friday. Once Anne’s feedback is received we will make any necessary changes and submit the final draft to Professor Dayle this weekend.


February 29th, 2008

Group meeting with Anne today @ 12:00pm
Location: Emma’s Coffee House @ 1901 Hayes St (b/w Clayton and Ashbury).

Main agenda: To familiarize ourselves with AdWords
What we accomplished:
• Anne passed out Clinic confidentiality papers for each of us to read over and sign
• Anne gave us the Google AdWords login and password
• We clicked through the Clinic’s account page to get the hang of it
• It was decided that it would be a good idea to go through the site’s tutorials on our own time.
• We saw the Clinic’s MySpace page
• Discussed that it would be a good idea to have the Clinic’s website link on other websites to help raise the site’s traffic and awareness, as well as a link on volunteer websites
o We plan to look more into this
• We spoke of USF’s connection to the Clinic and how it should also have a link through USF’s health services