December 2015

Working Hands-On

As advertising majors, we tend to talk a lot about concepts but we never really experience much hands-on work in the classroom. At my internship at the Temple Small Business Development Center, I received much more hands-on training. My favorite…

Events: Post-Planning Preparation

My name is Miranda  Krause and I am this Fall’s Community Relations intern at the NPR affiliate and non-profit, WHYY! The projects I’ve helped with the most this semester have been centered around assisting with the planned events listed on the events calendar.  For example,…

Inspirational People

At my internship I have worked under a few people who have inspired me to be a better worker. My marketing Director Stephanie has only worked at Sodexo for a few years and she has completely revamped the marketing department…

Designing for Digital

During my time as a Graphic Design intern at Slice Communications, I have received a crash course in designing ads for social media.

The Hidden Value of Reception

I’ve interned at Tierney for almost a year now and many people ask me what the most beneficial part of my experience has been. Since my internship has been so amazing I give them a long list of things I’ve…

Learning Outside of the Classroom

During my time interning for the Temple Small Business Development Center, I learned a lot of valuable things about small businesses, marketing, advertising, and myself. To own and operate a small business takes a lot of hard work and determination.…

Learning Experience

Working at Sodexo this semester has been an exceptional experience for me. In only a few months I have become much more adept in the Adobe Design Suite, I have come to understand corporate structure and I’ve even networked a…

Goodbye Tierney

In two weeks my internship at Tierney will be over. If you asked me freshman year if I would ever get the chance to intern at my dream agency I would have told you no. Now, after one year of…

The payoff

For the last few weeks at my internship I’ve been working on the same project. One of the agency’s clients requested an audit of all videos on their websites, and due to the setup of the websites and the information needed,…

Work, Play & Puppies

Work is almost as important as play at LevLane…almost. On my last day, I walked into the 4th floor office of the Wanamaker Building and was greeted by familiar faces. Mostly. Today happened to be the photoshoot for the agency’s new…

You get what you ask for

When I interviewed for the position of Account Management Intern I made it very clear what I was looking for. Since I believe that it is important for an Account Manager to understand how all departments work, I asked to work…

Writing for TV and other firsts

Lunchbox Communications is an advertising agency, but it’s also a production company. And even though I had worked for Update Now/Ahora for TUTV, I had never truly been part of the production crew. At Lunchbox, I’ve done things I never…

Maintaining Relevancy with Continuing Ed

My name is Olivia Kenney and I am serving as a Graphic Design Intern at Slice Communications in Old City, Philadelphia. Over the course of this internship, I have learned a range of valuable information regarding social media, public relations,…

Make Connections and Stay In Touch

This past spring, I had an internship with Crossmedia in Philadelphia. Crossmedia is a media planning firm and though I did not necessarily want to pursue media in my advertising career, I wanted to gain a better understanding of the…

Law And Order

It sounds ironic to take a creative break from creative work, but it is not an uncommon occurrence at Crossmedia in Philadelphia. One day this semester, I was asked by the team at Crossmedia if I wanted to watch Law…

A Day of Kindness

  When I was first hired at Lunchbox Communications I expected to perform the typical duties of a copywriter/social media intern. However, I knew that because it’s such a small team, I’d probably have to perform other tasks as well.…

Adjusting to Adulthood

My internship this semester was overall a huge learning experience. Not only did I learn about the work I was doing and the industry I was working in, but I was learning how to be a fully functioning, working adult.…

Not Your Average Ad Internship

Hello there! My name is Set and I am currently interning at the Office of the City Representative (OCR). Sounds kind of unfamiliar in the advertising realm, doesn’t it? And yes, I am not working for an advertising agency but…

A brief overview of what a Seer Interactive Intern works in

SEO, PPC, and Analytics: A Brief Overview

You’re eating a new brand of breakfast bars, and then a question comes to mind. Something along the lines of: “What are the healthiest granola bars?” In decades past, one might have looked in a book or asked a fellow…

Beyond the Cubicle

When I first started my internship in August, I was daunted by the thought of sitting at a desk in a small cubicle that faced the bathroom, staring at a computer for eight hours a day. As I spent more…

It is Finally Here!

Although there have been smaller important things leading up to this big event such as marketing the non-profit and helping those in need find homes/furniture to start their new lives, the most important thing of the year is finally here.…

Life is an AdVenture

As a project management/analytics intern at Brian Communications and RealTime Media I was quick to learn that the concepts that we learn in class and utilizing them are two vastly different things. I thought that my days would be spent…

Perfectly Hidden

It was a cold and windy day to start off the Philadelphia Marathon 2015. I remember that day clearly as I was basically frozen from walking around on-site to help out with media tasks. Arriving as early at 5 am…

The Greatest Life Learning Experience

So what do I mean by the greatest experience? Remember the days when your mom, dad, teachers and friends are always telling you to stop procrastinating and plan ahead of time? Well, here’s the thing. No matter how much, how…

A little “can-do” goes a long way

While working within the marketing department of Fox 29 I was fortunate enough to work with them on a campaign pitch with bike rental company INDEGO. During this time I was asked to film short vignettes interviewing Indego users asking…

Think Outside The Box

ChargeItSpot, a Philly start up, provides a free and secure phone charging solution to people throughout the US and Canada. During my internship at this company, I was constantly impressed with the continual innovation of the product, the rapid growth of the business, and…

Hit The Ground Running

ChargeItSpot is Philadelphia start-up that provides phone-charging stations to high scale retailers, casinos, restaurants, hospitals, universities and venues. They also utilize their the outer shell of their charging kiosks as an innovative advertising platform, in which brands can sponsor the units…

When you’re the only one with a pen…

Hi everyone!   My name is Alyssa Grant, and I am currently serving an internship at DePersico Group. DePersico Group is a design agency that specializes in food packaging. Being the only copywriter on site, I got a lot of…

Genji On Ice 2016

Nearing the end of the semester, approaching my official graduation has been unreal. My internship as Genji’s graphic design intern consumed my life this semester, in the best way. This internship, and a pesky GenEd were all the credits I…

Life Lessons in the Workplace

When you are starting your first job expect the unexpected. Expect to be given something that is urgent and must be done in a few hours, expect to receive an urgent email where you have to rush to your office…

7 Deadly Sins of Social Media

While we may think of social media as so prevalent and so simple that we don’t give a second thought to it. But it’s constantly evolving not only as new sites and services appear but as new uses for it…

(Some More) New Intern Tips

With all of the important work given to me at LevLane, I have to keep make sure I’m handing in all of my assignments in a timely manner. In an attempt to fight procrastination, I began thinking of all the…

Learning From Mistakes and Failing with Grace

In quick summation I spent the past semester as an administrative assistant and marketing intern at a nurse case management company called Advanced Rehabilitation Management. My particular duties ranged from day to day growing in complexity as I gained more…

The Realness of Research

As a research student in the Advertising department, it is a lot of times difficult to put yourself in real life scenarios of things that might happen during research or how it actually happens in the real world.  This semester I…

Building Confidence – A New Perspective

As the Chinese wise-men say, “when the student is ready the teacher appears”. Working at Advanced Rehabilitation Management put me in the spotlight to create work that would be published and reviewed by eyes other than my own. AdvancedRM is…