Hi all, (sorry for the essay)
So, 4 months ago I was taken on as part of a media team for a national company, they wanted 2000 blog posts written and uploaded in 90 days, the team of 3 managed about 400 and some were bad 3rd party ones that I had to rewrite. When I started I was told it was a bad idea and after a while, it sunk in as they moved our department on to other things as well as the blogs, such as social media, setting up recruitment channels, graphical work, AdWords (£7k a month) and increasing the organic SEO. All but blogging and social media fell on my shoulders.
It was decided the department was to close for financial reasons while I was away on holiday. The manager who only oversaw the project went back to his consulting with the company, the blog writer was moved to a call centre roll, which left me.
They made myself and 2 other redundant, a coder who helped work on the systems and the IT guy. Merged them into one job and told me to interview, I got the job.
Now, I have a broad knowledge of various IT and tech subjects but I really need to get some decent training sorted. I have a Lynda subscription via the company and I know there are loads of things on there to look at, too much.
The main roles are general IT issues, setting up PC's, moving them around, printers/scanners, setting up software, emails, internal Moodle based knowledgebase, setting up Sage, setting up phones and working with our custom software.
The Adwords/SEO side I've spent 4 months reading, learning and testing so I feel ok there but always looking for new things.
Then there is the coding side. Initially, I'll be using visual studio to download the code for the site, editing/tweaking and then reuploading to the live site. WHM, version control, cloud-based computing as well as several different languages. I can get some training from the Tech Director on this so not an urgent problem.
So, what would you recommend? I feel the IT side is more important initially, see how I can streamline things, build something to auto setup laptops and PC's with the required bookmarks, logins and software etc.
So, 4 months ago I was taken on as part of a media team for a national company, they wanted 2000 blog posts written and uploaded in 90 days, the team of 3 managed about 400 and some were bad 3rd party ones that I had to rewrite. When I started I was told it was a bad idea and after a while, it sunk in as they moved our department on to other things as well as the blogs, such as social media, setting up recruitment channels, graphical work, AdWords (£7k a month) and increasing the organic SEO. All but blogging and social media fell on my shoulders.
It was decided the department was to close for financial reasons while I was away on holiday. The manager who only oversaw the project went back to his consulting with the company, the blog writer was moved to a call centre roll, which left me.
They made myself and 2 other redundant, a coder who helped work on the systems and the IT guy. Merged them into one job and told me to interview, I got the job.
Now, I have a broad knowledge of various IT and tech subjects but I really need to get some decent training sorted. I have a Lynda subscription via the company and I know there are loads of things on there to look at, too much.
The main roles are general IT issues, setting up PC's, moving them around, printers/scanners, setting up software, emails, internal Moodle based knowledgebase, setting up Sage, setting up phones and working with our custom software.
The Adwords/SEO side I've spent 4 months reading, learning and testing so I feel ok there but always looking for new things.
Then there is the coding side. Initially, I'll be using visual studio to download the code for the site, editing/tweaking and then reuploading to the live site. WHM, version control, cloud-based computing as well as several different languages. I can get some training from the Tech Director on this so not an urgent problem.
So, what would you recommend? I feel the IT side is more important initially, see how I can streamline things, build something to auto setup laptops and PC's with the required bookmarks, logins and software etc.