Hump Day

I emailed back and forth with the producers of the non-for-profit event and the non-for-profit organization who is benefiting from the event this morning. I finished my first draft of the calendar listing for this event. Now I am just waiting on my boss to review and advise me on it.

I updated the ad value report for client 8 and the clip report for client 6. I made edits to a press release for client 1. Client 1 has been a hard client to please. Every time we send them press kit material, they send it back covered in edits. I think they have revised every piece of press kit matrial at least a half a dozen times. Then I made a detailed media contact list for client 6.

I had a lot of downtime today. Sometimes interning means twiddling your thumbs and pretending you're being productive.

Actually working! Yeah!

I revised a pitch letter for client 6 on school apprehensions in the Orlando, Florida area for the associate. Then I updated client 6's clip report. We found two television news reports and two print publication articles on them. Then I updated the advertisement value report for client 8. Also my boss had me watch a news video on Chicago Business News about retail vacancy, write up bulleted information about it and email her back. It was interesting how much the vacancy rate has gone up and how it will continue to rise as long as the recession persists. I really hope this recession ends soon.

Then I had a meeting with my boss on the non-for-profit event I'm going to be working on. I started by emailing my questions about the event to the producers of it. They responded fairly quick, but then I had a couple more questions in response. I'm guessing I won't hear anything back until tomorrow. I started my rough draft of the calendar listing for the event. Though, I cannot have my boss review it until I get all the information from the producers, but it is a good start.

I'm excited and happy I have my own little project to work on!

Media list building today

Today, a new girl started working with us. I guess she worked here last summer, but has been abroad for the past six months. She is really nice and I think I can learn from her. It's kind of sad she is starting when I only have two weeks left, but I'll take advantage of the possibility of learning from her.

We had are beginning of the week internal meeting. Seems like my boss realized that I haven't done much press work other than internal things, like media list building, distributing pre-written press releases, etc. So before I leave, I'm going to write a press release for a non-profit organization(pro-bono case) and make calls to the media. I'm excited that I'll get this experience before I leave.

I research NACAS for my boss today. It is a non-profit organization (not the non-profit organization I was talking about earlier) that helps students in college and business professionals network. Then, I had to look up radio and television contacts in the Orlando area. Extremely hard surprisingly. There are not many radio or television stations in Orlando that cover business or technology.

I finally finished the Chicago media list. It is crazy long. Especially the radio station list (never realized how many radio stations are in the Chicagoland area). Now my boss and her associate have contact information for almost all the newspaper, radio and television editors/producers in Chicago.

TGIF!

I continued compiling the Chicago media list today. I printed a few documents off for a girl who starts Monday and cleaned up the office. That's about it for today.

I couldn't concentrate at all. I turn 21 tomorrow and I'm super excited for my boat party!

Staring at the Computer Screen

Sometimes at this internship I believe I just stare at the computer from 9 AM until 4 PM. It is awful!

As soon as I got in the office I sent out a press release to all of the calendar listing editors in the Chicagoland area. Then I posted the calendar listing on kidwinks.com. For the rest of the day I compiled the basic Chicago media contact list (publications, televisions and radio). It's a long list and it is going to take me a while. It has about 185 different contacts! I just have to get it done before I leave for the summer.

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I found an article on one of our clients in the newspaper and on two online news sites. It wasn't a good article. It was about defaulting on a loan by one of our clients... But I don't get to be part of the crisis PR.

I updated our client contact information for everyone. Then made a contact list for an event we are doing in Orange County. After that, I compiled all the editors and their contact information for national real estate publications to send a release tomorrow.

Over lunch, I reviewed a positioning release, a bio and a fact sheet. It was not very good and I can see why the client was getting upset with my boss and her associate. There were grammar errors and sentences that were just jumbled and made no sense. I edited them all. Hopefully that makes the client a bit happier.

The final thing was I had to find a computer recycling drop-off in Chicago because we replaced one computer and two monitors in the office.

Kind of a Boring Day

I revised a media alert for a skateboard park opening and researched skateboarding safety tips. Then I just worked on compiling an overall Chicago media contact list for all the news outlets in the Chicagoland area.

That's my day... Zzzzz