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 part of the internship was working on website builders, such as Wix and Weebly to edit and manage website content for my businesses. Although I did not have much creative freedom when using these platforms, I learned a lot of valueable skills about SEO, content building, and importance of detail.I also used a graphics website called Piktochart, which I discovered…

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, there was an event planned around the Indie Lens Pop-Up Film Festival for the documentary Autism In Love. Once this educational documentary was announced to be premiering, I put together the event page so it could be registered and posted to events sites such as Eventbrite, PhillyWeekly, UWishUNu, TicketLeap, etc. In doing this, I needed to only post the official copyrighted…

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 from what it was. Prior to her hiring, on-campus events were virtually non-existent, she started the Baker Dave brand. On top of that, before hiring interns she would handle all of campus dining service’s marketing all on her own. She is very inspirational to me because she can somehow handle the stress of an entire campus while still being innovative…