My name is Liz Ziegler and I’m currently interning with LevLane Advertising in center city.  I’m working in the traffic/production department. Everyone is so welcoming and helpful here and it’s a great experience.  I recommend to anyone who is looking for an internship. Something I’ve realized while interning here is you should really know the company you’re interning/working for.  An art director spoke to me about how a fair amount of employees at Levlane are Temple Alumni, which is a great opportunity for fellow Temple students.  Just some advice that I will certainly use for the future is to know…

Give the suit-side a fighting chance- try to learn about the client’s perspective before selling them things.

I started my internship at Harmelin Media on September 8, 2010. It has been nothing but a positive environment from the moment that I walked in the door. Everyone here is so friendly and willing to help that I have not once felt uncomfortable going to ask for assignments, or ask questions. From my observations Harmelin is a very family-like atmosphere. Every day when I look through my email I see an invitation to a different baby shower, bridal shower, etc. They send out emails congratulating employees on their marriages, engagements, newborns, etc. They send emails welcoming new employees. They also…

In my last post I talked about March of Dimes’ Prematurity Awareness Month and how we wanted to get buildings lit up in purple to spread awareness about the problems of premature birth.  The summer intern started the process and I did all the pre-lighting follow-ups and will be doing all of the post-lighting follow-ups.  I’m also taking pictures of the buildings for March of Dimes to keep in the office as well as send to the companies that helped us out by lighting up their buildings. I took a drive the other day to get pictures of two of…

Holiday prep is one of the most anticipated jobs in the visual arts department at any retail store.  The preparation for the design concepts at Anthropologie began at the end of October.  The work we had to do can only be described as tedious!  The reason is because we needed tons of homemade tinsel and pine needles for homemade christmas trees and to place around the store.  What does this involve exactly?  Cutting paper.  Lots and lots of cutting paper.  For about three weeks, six hours a day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I cut green paper into thin strips,…

Throughout this internship I have learned and experienced many things. Just the idea of getting up in a weekday and knowing that you are going somewhere else besides school is a great feeling. Driving into work as if you were part of a team is a great feeling and walking into an office, where people address you with a good morning and a “How was your weekend?” gives you a sense of some sort of adult hood. As you glance over to the big leather office chair and know that this is where I will be spending my day, you…

When my internship with the Philadelphia 76ers comes up in conversation, people tend to think it’s a little cooler than it actually is. People tend to think “basketball” and automatically assume the internship is all fun and games; it’s not. To be honest, most of my work with the 76ers has been in front of a computer screen, at a cubicle, in a windowless office (also known as the basement). For the past few months I’ve seen semi- famous basketball players every time I intern, but in jpeg form. It’s true, even I was fooled by the idea of working…

When i first got to Philly2Night I was asked to make a list of any goals or outcomes that I expected to receive from my internship. And although I knew what I expected from the internship I had no idea just how much I would learn during my time here. One of the goals that I listed was to learn different and proper techniques that can help evaluate the effectiveness of an event or promotion. In school we learn how to put things together, whether they are media plans, press releases, campaigns and even major events; however when it comes to evaluating…

Recently at my internship at Maiden Media Group,  I had the opportunity to interact with one of their clients on a more personal level.  One of the agency’s newest clients is an elegant local antique store, More Than Old. Part of the services More Than Old is obtaining from Maiden Media is a website design to help get their name out to local Philadelphians as well as make their current website more up to date and professional.   As an account management intern, I was assigned to this new account and have had the opportunity to meet with the owner of the store and…

Social Media is free and pretty much everyone uses it.  At Weston Fitness, I control all aspects of both our Facebook pages (one is a business to “like” with a more professional feel and the other is a person that we can be less formal on)  I have currently doubled our amount of friends and am gaining more friends by adding incentives, such as free coupons and gift certificates, and the opportunity for friends to get important information first and be able to comment or ask me questions about anything.  I also work with websites such as BuyWithMe and Philly…

After working at Weston Fitness doing their PR, Marketing, and Advertising for two months, my boss and I planned a Health Fair in the lobby of 1818 Market (a huge office building on Market Street).  In order to set this up, I a lonely intern, got to go sit in on a meeting with the owner of this building in his beautiful office furnished luxuriously with a long mahogany conference table.  He agreed to have the Health Fair in his lobby and we got started with the planning.  We had to get all the staff in the fitness center to…

Starting off at Weston Fitness I was extremely nervous because I knew I wasn’t walking into an Ad agency or anything obviously advertising related, so I was unsure of exactly what they expected of me.  Right off the bat the employees were super friendly and everyone introduced themselves.  It was easy to ask anyone for assistance (especially in answering the phone that wasn’t mine, but was still ringing right next to me!!).  I got an email with my own personal signature and title (Marketing Assistant J ) and a swipe card to enter the building.  As the weeks progressed, my…

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Maybe next time.

One of my responsibilities in my internship with the English Department was to organize the alumni newsletter. This is the primary contact between alumni and the Department. It highlights several professors and honors students for academic achievements. My role in this newsletter this semester was to make sure the printing company had everything they needed, the distribution company received the newsletter and of course, to make sure everything went out on time. The content of the newsletter had already been written, so I only had to make sure the document was ready to be printed. The main challenge with this…