My internship is with CoinOutlet, Inc a manufacturer and operator of bitcoin smart kiosks. I had the opportunity this week to help create flyers and become a part of the company sponsored Lancaster Bitcoin Meetup Group. The company pays for pizza and beer, but has trouble getting people to come out in the area to these meetups. I was tasked with finding a way to get some people to join. The company has a machine in Lancaster stationed in a cafe called, 454 Grill. The owner, Leigh, allows meals to be paid in bitcoin so it was an ideal location…

As my internship debrief meeting with my internship faculty advisor, Stacey Harspter, was coming to an end, I was posed with one final question: what do you think you learned or gained most from your internship this semester? Most people may have thought of different tasks that they were able to complete or interesting industry insights that they now have. After taking a moment to think about what I truly gained from my time with Tag Strategies in Center City, I answered the question with one word: confidence. Beginning at your first internship can be a daunting experience. Questions such…

The KYW1060 Intern Report What does a sales intern do at a major TV/Radio station in Philadelphia? A sales intern has the opportunity to be around the best salespeople who know how to sell, take on new and exciting projects, listen to what’s going on around him/her, drink from the water cooler, learn many many names, and be a part of a highly energetic sales meeting every week. What happens during a sales meeting? The weekly sales meeting topics include upcoming sponsorships, partnerships, upcoming events, and valuable industry information. I made the best of these meetings by taking notes and listening. If…

This semester I spent my time interning for a nonprofit organization completely dedicated to finding a cure for Type II Diabetes, a disease that plagues millions and millions of Americans. Each year more and more people are being diagnosed for a disease that can be avoided (this is referring to Type II, not Type I). It is awful to watch close family and friends have to deal with this disease day in and day out for the rest of their lives and know that there is nothing that you personally can do for them. Or is there? When I began…

Well, it’s been a great experience working at Marshall Dennehey this past semester. I’ve gotten to be involved with many projects that had visible effects on how the business runs, which is always gratifying. I even got to use some of my coworkers in a research project I was conducting for school about motivations behind blood donations. I believe the buzzword for that would be synergy. If there’s one thing I’m going to take away from this internship, its that everything I do has the potential to be a learning experience, a networking opportunity, or just a chance to get…

LevLane is no “boutique” ad agency. However, it is also by no means huge. With about 60 employees, they fall squarely in the middle. At a larger agency, it’s easy to be concerned that you’ll be lost in the shuffle, or that the most work you’ll be doing is remembering everyone’s coffee orders. At a smaller one, having someone breathe down your neck while you’re trying to work and watching every little thing is both disconcerting and no way to get creative work done. That’s what I loved about working at LevLane. I was given the space to do the…

I was very fortunate to land an internship at the law firm Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman, & Goggin (Marshall Dennehey for short). However, I was a little uneasy about being an advertising major working for attorneys, as I’m sure we all know how those ads usually turn out. I appreciate the work, but I didn’t want to be stuck writing variations on “we don’t get paid until you do!” for the entire semester. Fortunately, we do not advertise in the traditional sense. Rather, we focus on marketing efforts. And while it isn’t exactly my field of study, I learned a lot…

I hope you all got that Spongebob reference, except I actually learned a lot working at the Independence Seaport Museum as a Marketing and PR intern.  The experience gave me a chance to learn how to do tasks that I wouldn’t learn inside a classroom.  I got to go to office meetings that I wouldn’t get to experience in Annenberg.  And overall my time at the Museum was a valuable tool to learn the aspects of a full time job that I can’t see in a classroom and decide which of those I want and do not want. I worked…

Finally, it is coming down to an end. Not only is my time at Harmelin Media winding down, but my time as an undergrad at Temple as well. I feel very confident that Harmelin and Temple have put me in a great position to succeed in the future. Although I admit that finding a job will be stressful, hard work will eventually pay off. Harmelin especially has taught me the first steps of being a professional and working within a professional environment, and for that I am truly grateful. It is encouraging to be given such great reviews from your…

I came into college with the belief that I was absolutely certain advertising was the career I wanted to pursue. As my college career continued, I found myself enjoying my advertising classes and being even more certain that I had found the right major for me. Because I wanted to be an account manager, I decided to declare a business minor. Once I began my business minor, I realized that, while business and communications are very similar, they are also very different. There were things that I liked about both, and suddenly I found myself uncertain of what exactly I wanted to…

I’ve spent much of my free time at college agonizing over The Big Decision—or more specifically, what I want to do for the rest of my life. They tell you time and time again that that’s what college is all about, so the longer I spent at Temple without making up my mind, the more panicked I felt. While I have managed to graduate from the ‘All I know is that I don’t like math’ phase to something a little more concentrated (double-tracking in Copywriting and Art Direction as an Ad major), I always struggled with never feeling like a…