Can't Beat the Heat

It is scorching here in the city! It will be in the 90s today and tomorrow. At first I thought I wasn't gonna leave the office for lunch, but I decided I needed a break. I got a little distracted so I ended up walking like 3 blocks out of the way!

LivingSocial was having the very first Instant Deal $1 meal day in NYC. There were like 48 restaurants in Midtown participating, but by the time I went to the website, most of the deals were gone. It's amazing! Just buy the $1 voucher and show it on your iPhone when you go to the restaurant! I will have to be better prepared next time so I can get the deal!

Well my internship is going well. Yesterday, I finished uploading hundreds of pictures of jewelry for an upcoming event. Then I looked in my bin today and I have a bunch more CDs to upload. I also worked on pitching bloggers for the proposal contest. I love that I got to research wedding blogs all day...very practical for me!

Everyone just got back from the trade show in Las Vegas. I helped write thank you emails on behalf of the company. I also learned how to mail merge with an attachment! Seriously, Word 2007 does not give that option so it was a pain in the butt! At least I know how to do it now. I am like a pro.

The rest of my day will be uploading designer's events to the website from the trade show. There are a lot of pictures to be resized and uploaded, but I actually like doing it! Hopefully I can go for a swim with my cousins today!

I feel like I am starting to catch up on life. I have to rewrite my lit review by Monday, so I got a head start on that. I mailed in my expense report for my trip to Nashville. I got the next teaching series for Amplify ready. And Friday I am going with my family to check out a wedding venue!

Little Kitty Back in the City!

Hello everyone!

I am back from Nashville and here in the city. I had the most amazing time in Nashville. I don't know if you heard the good news--Brendan and I are engaged! It was so magical and amazing. My presentation on my research paper went okay. I was mostly on cloud 9 so that was good!

Now I am back in the city. Yesterday was a very busy day. I had to compile a media list for the top 10 finalists. We are going to pitch the story locally to each finalist's area. It took me a very long time and then I realized I forgot some key info so I had to redo them after lunch. I also wrote out the pitches and hopefully they will be ready to go today!

I've learned so much so far this week. I am getting a lot more comfortable with email pitching. I am also a pro at mail merging now! Today I will be picking stock photos for the new website design! How exciting!

MIA!

I will be MIA this week because instead of going to my internship in the city, I will be going to Nashville!

I have been selected to present My research paper on social media at the 2011 Academic Business World International Conference and International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education joint conference.

I'll be staying at the Opryland Hotel, which is amazing! I've been there before! And I am going to have plenty of time to sight-see!

I am presenting on Wednesday at 10:30 so wish me luck!

Busy Day!

Yesterday was a very busy day at my internship! I got to work 20 minutes earlier because I took an earlier bus. I ended up just walked from Port Authority to my job and it took about 20 minutes. I even stopped at this cafe to get a parfait for breakfast! Yum!

As soon as I got in I had to go to a meeting for 1.5 hours. The presentation was called What Not to Write. It was on how to write in the business environment and pretty much put us all on the same page so there is one consistent voice coming out of the organization.

We also spent a lot of time on editing and proofreading. I learned a lot of tricks for proofing my work and we got VERY technical in grammar. It was all very familiar since I took two writing courses this past semester, but was so cool.

After the meeting I sent out a press release via PR Newswire, which is awesome. That means there is a greater chance that it actually got published. It was for the final push for this engagement contest we are doing. After that I worked on writing 18 handwritten letters to be put into recruitment kits. That literally took me 3 hours because I would get to the end of the letter and make a mistake and have to throw it away!

I also worked on a pitch to Huffington Post on Father's Day gifts. We get this awesome newsletter called HARO (Help a Reporter Out). A twice-daily newsletter is sent out with topics that reporters need news/information/quotes on. I found one that was relevant to my work and I emailed it out! Haven't heard back yet, but how cool would that be if my work was featured in the article all thanks to me!

Right before I left I learned how to judge the engagement contest. I get to be on the of the judges!! I had to read the story and rate it. Then we will narrow it down to the top ten finalists and America will vote. How exciting!

BTW: The press release I sent out was published in many places including in FashionNews and CNBC!

Cups Frozen Yogurt

CUPS! This does not necessarily pertain to NYC, but since I am staying in NJ during the week it kinda has to do with my internship!

Cups Frozen Yogurt is the most amazing thing ever. It's pretty much a do-it-yourself frozen yogurt bar. First you grab a cup, then you go to a line of machines. There are two flavors on each side and one in the middle.

The cups are big enough that you can separate all the flavors if you wanted to. For example I got chocolate coconut, raspberry cheesecake and raspberries and tart. I put them in 3 separate sections!

Then you go to the counter and there are like 50 different toppings to chose from. Syrups, fruit, candy,  and even cereal! Note: that is not my Cups just something I found online. I got cheesecake bites and brownie bites.

When you pay for it, you put it on a scale! Kind of like at a salad bar. It was seriously so good and so fun to make! Right now they only have two locations in NJ but I think there are similar things like this out there. It was seriously so good and I wish I thought of this idea before!