First Week Update! Time Out New York Internship!

First official update as a Time Out New York Magazine Marketing intern!

Week 1!

I get put to work, and I love it! I work under the Marketing and Events Coordinator and the Promotions Director. They are both extremely approachable, professional, and cool. I also started to work under the Art Promotions Director, who has taught me a lot in two days! But it was also cool that a lot of technical things he was showing me was a refresher, so I felt really prepared.

Weeks Projects included:

• Restaurant research for Time Out for Hunger
• Copy Editing, organizing, and maintaining TONY's new "Brand Source Guide"
• Walk through for next big events, DLS and the Singles Party
  
• Resizing in-house ads for the new Time Out Kids format
• Data entry for new singles to prep for launch of "Meet Moi"
  

Working in an office with a lot of interns creates a very different atmosphere. First of all, it's more fun. There are people going through the same thing as you and it's fun to chat and help each other relax. At the same time, there's a definite competitive tension, because everyone is working to stand out and be the best. At least I am of course!

I've decide to come in Fridays when I can so I can take full advantage of all the projects I can work on and participate it. Hopefully I'll get some independent projects that will really show how much I can do for Time Out. I can't wait to continue!

HOT TIP: Bring in food for the office. I brought it muffins as a thank you for welcoming me, and everyone was extremely appreciative, and it opened up a lot of conversation!

Time Out for Hunger Promotional Piece

Rye House, NYC, Venue for Dining and Libation Society, Feb. 16th. Fat Tuesday!

THOM Bar, Venue for Singles Party February 8th

The Importance of Being Updated

Having a online presence.

It's something I started working on when I became interested in Graphic Design. My first online portfolio was my DeviantArt. This is a free site popular with gamer type kids, though I'm not knocking it. Many artists post incredible work it. But I wanted something more professional looking and manageable. I then created a Coroflot and Behance portfolio.

Shortly after I caved and got a Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Flickr. In addition, I started keeping a blog about my summer 2009 internships and decided to keep it after the summer was over (you're reading it!). Oh, and can't forget my Google profile! I also hesitantly updated my myspace. Recently, I joined a community called Good.Is., after doing a paper on Matt Owens of Volume One.

Lastly, I reached my goal of launching my own personal website, EmilyMiethner.com on December 15th 2009.

I do a LOT of updating!! Yes, I could get rid of some of my sites seeing as some of them are repetitive (especially with emilymiethner.com!), but I decided to keep them all. I feel like each one offers different connections to people and opportunities that I don't want to cut. Thus, one of my goals of 2010 is to keep my online presence updated and current!

In other news, I got two little Resident Assistant awards this past semester, Most Creative and The Spontaneous Programming Award! Thanks to Curb Your Enthusiasm for the latter award, I've got to find a new show to watch with residents for spring semester!


And event I'm looking forward to this month: No Pants! Subway Ride. Here's the video from last year!