In my new media class we had to post two entries a week, and were given a list of blogs to get ideas and material from…I was never told I had to and I honestly thought if it was posted somewhere online or found in google images, I had free reign to use it however I wanted.
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How to Maintain Your Skillz in the “Real World”
There are a lot of skills that may be hard to focus on when your path has completely changed, and I’m referring to everything from time management to people skills. I came up with some tips for maintaining certain skills you worked so hard to hone in college (or were honing without even thinking about) that may suffer in your transition into the “real world.”
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How to Get Your Start in Social Media in 5 Steps
Recently Simon Kirk of Techies Give Back asked me to speak with his friend, Robert Sullivan, about breaking into social media, particularly within the publishing world. The conversation spawned this blog entry.
Also posted in Career, networking, online presence, social media, tips, twitter, work ethic Tagged evan roth, twitter 3 Comments
Internship Wrap Up: Flavorpill
This week was my last as an intern at Flavorpill. This was the most spur of the moment internship I’ve ever had. Story? I’m interning at Gawker one day when I get my daily Flavorpill newsletter (I’ve been receiving for about 3 years). I saw that they were looking for interns in their New York [...]
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Best New York City Internship. Ever!
Wednesday I worked my last Time Out New York event as the Marketing and Events intern at the Summer Singles Party. My internship is officially over. It was very bitter sweet. Looking back at this past entry entitled “The Perfect Internship,” I was totally right. Let me preface by saying that I’ve had numerous internships [...]
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Paid or Unpaid, that is the question.
Graduation is less than a month away, and there a million and one decisions that have to be made in a short period of time! One thing I believe is on the mind of a lot of students graduating: Is taking another unpaid (or barely paid) internship after graduation the right decision? This is an [...]
The Perfect Internship!
Well, HOO.RAAH. I found an internship that would be PERFECT for the upcoming Spring! I was organizing my old “favorites” and came across the Time Out NY internship page. I had originally “favorited” it for Promotion Design and Online Design. BUT, looking through again, I found EVENTS and MARKETING. I’d be involved in the planning [...]
What I’ll miss, and won’t miss
During this last week I thought I’d make a couple of lists! What I’ll miss about my internships: being an intern going to cool events and concerts walking around and exploring williamsburg listening to business conversations $3 falafel cooking myself nice meals What I won’t miss about having internships: the 15 minute walk to the [...]
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Illinois Concert
So it all started with: and wanting to work there. Through them I found these guys: This awesome band, Illinois. Who inspired me to make this for them: Which I subsequently sent to the singer, Chris Archibald, letting him know I wanted to intern for his label, Acefu. He responded and let me know that [...]
Early week 6 Post! Stellastarr* show!
\\::Stellastarr* show ::// I arrived at the venue, the Highline Ballroom about 6:30. It’s a great venue. Mid-sized, with bars on either side and space to sit down and eat dinner on the floor and balcony. Arthur, the drummer of Stella found me and showed me around the merch, then brought me upstairs to the [...]