Fact: All girls read magazines. Another fact: 955 million people use Facebook and 140 million use Twitter. What do you get when you mix the two, add a few events and a reality TV celeb as your boss? My summer internship.
I spent my sunny summer days as a digital communications intern in the office of Venue Magazine in Miami. Venue Magazine, the top-selling magazine for the upscale Hispanic community, has all the information about fashion, glamour, entertainment and anything else you might want to read. What exactly does a digital communications intern do, you ask? I’m here to tell you. It’s really exactly what it sounds like.
We work for the digital side of the magazine. This mainly entails keeping up with social media and writing cheeky articles for the magazine’s website/blog. We go to events, award shows, and gallery and restaurant openings to keep Miami’s social elite up to date on what’s trending around town.
The internship was incredibly hands on. Let’s just say, you get your own coffee in this office. Our social media team always had events, photo shoots, interviews, and lurking deadlines to meet. We were constantly updating @VenueMagazine_’s Twitter with the office’s latest buzz and the hottest celebrity gossip, right there with E! News and Perez Hilton. On top of all this, most of the interns also helped with writing event blurbs for the magazine, and eventually designed and wrote our very own articles.
One of my favorite parts of the internship was going to the events. As one of the most influential magazines in Miami, we were always invited to the most exclusive and chicest events in South Beach. I attended an awards show and met up backstage with A-list celebs like Wilder Valderrama. I even got to chat with the lovely Kim Kardashian at one of the summer’s swankiest beachside bashes. This internship was the perfect mix of public relations and copywriting. A communications and english major’s dream, if you ask me.
As I think back to my summer days, memories of walking in and out of the Venue Magazine office stir up a sense of nostalgia. Now, back on the Heights with a heightened sense of pursuit and purpose, I find myself eager to share my summer adventures and connect them to my endless amount of textbook readings. But every now and then, I can’t help but wonder about what my favorite co-workers are up to and what’s going on in that bustling office.
Photo Sources:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/VENUE-MAGAZINE/215536656048