Interning for Campus Circle - Intro

Well, I started my Editorial Internship at Campus Circle in January, 2010.

On my resume, my duties include:
•Pitched story topics to Editor-in-Chief, wrote articles, headlines and captions
•Communicated with agencies and interviewed talent
•Copyedited and reviewed page proofs
What they really are:
•Read the entire newspaper the Friday before it goes to print for typos
•Email back and forth a million times with PR agents
•Go to cool shows and talk to awesome people
•Learn how to appropriately brown-nose
•Stay up really late writing articles I wish I hadn’t signed up for

Right after I was hired as an editorial intern, the publisher asked me if I was interested in social media (SM) marketing. Translation = Will you play on Facebook for pay? Um, yes. So I started in February.

Here is what my resume says I did:•Managed CC’s presence on the Internet
•Monitored trends in social media tools and applications and appropriately applied that knowledge to CC
•Measured the impact of social media on the overall marketing efforts
•Applied micro-blogging to promote CC’s current articles
Here is what I actually do:•“Research” new SM methods (aka. Browse Mashable)
•Friend request and follow strangers on FB and Twitter who seem important
•Try to promote USC stuff way more than anything else
•Learn the ins and outs of Google Docs
•Document Link Popularity
•“Reach out” to appropriate SM users and become friends with them
•Learn the most effective way to apply the adage, “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.”
•Spam links to our articles on our pages
•Create contests and giveaways for fans

In any case, I love my positions at Campus Circle – even though they can get stressful at times.
The rest of my blog will be about things I have done, starting from the beginning going month by month, up until the present point, to which I will probably update weekly.

Cheers!