Dig Downtown, an online resource for everything good about Detroit, is running a contest to determine Detroit's Intern of the Year!


From Dig Downtown's blog:

Tired of slinging coffee? Interns, we’re offering you a chance to get your names and faces in front of Downtown Detroit’s leading employers. It’s a video contest to win Dig Downtown’s Intern of the Year award and the process is as easy as pie! Here’s how it works: Get out your camera, phone, or iPad and shoot an HD video about your experience working in Downtown Detroit. We encourage you to be creative and express yourselves as you like. Here are a few questions you can choose from to help you get started:

• How is Detroit different from what you thought it might be? 

• What do you enjoy about spending time Downtown? 

• If you had a theme song for your life in Detroit this summer, what would you play? 

• If you could say one thing about Detroit to people who have never visited before, what would it be? 

• Where are your favorite places to hang out Downtown? 

• Do you plan on working in the city after your internship is completed? 

Keep your video 3 minutes or shorter, upload to Youtube and tag it #DETintern. Then complete the submission form on the bottom of the page by August 29th to enter. Our panel of judges from the Downtown Detroit Partnership will choose the winner of this competition. The winner gets a fancy certificate, resume fodder, and their video featured in a few of the DDP’s annual events and outreach materials – which can be the networking of all networking opportunities, if we do say so ourselves. Even if you don’t win, all submissions will receive a shiny Detroit pin from Detroit’s own City Bird. Now if that isn’t incentive…Stay tuned for the announcement of the winner on September 15th!

You can submit your videos here!

And make sure if you submitted a video entry to leave the YouTube URL in the comments so I can be sure to check it out too!  Good luck!

I, unfortunately, did not make it out of the top 200 people that were a part of the video contest in Round 3.

I was curious of what Round 4 consisted of so I did a little research and I found out that the top 50 contestants have to do NOTHING! How easy is that?! Just sit back and wait to be contacted.

I can't say that I'm incredibly upset about not making it any further in the competition. I'm a little old (a wrinkly 23 year old) and I'm passed the point of internships in my life! Plus, I have a job I love and could never give up!

Good luck to those who made it!

I'm working on editing my video interview for the #TigerBloodIntern race...


Stay tuned!

Like I said before, I'm currently trying to earn a job of social media intern for Charlie Sheen and today I found out I made it to Round 3 of the #TigerBloodIntern race!  Rumor has it that only 200 of the original 74,000 applicants made it to Round 3.

1. Create a YouTube video answering one of the three social media questions listed below. No video over 2 minutes in length will be considered. Only one submission is allowed.
2. Dress professionally and take your answer seriously. Your video interview will be judged on quality of content and potential for community engagement.
3. Clearly introduce your topic at the beginning of your video.
4. After you have uploaded your video to YouTube, copy and paste your YouTube video URL into the box below and click SUBMIT. The deadline for submission is Friday night March 25th at 11:59 PDT.

1. If you were the Social Media Director for a major humanitarian aid organization, how would you create awareness and raise money via social media in the aftermath of a global disaster?
2. In your opinion, what is the best company using social media today and why?
3. How would you advise a candidate running for public office to leverage social media in his or her campaign election?

I have yet to record my video but I will be doing it over the next few days. I'll post it once Round 3 closes!

A few days ago I, along with 74,000 other people, applied to join TeamSheen and be Charlie Sheen's Social Media Intern.

Today I was pleased to see I made it to Round 2!

Today I posted this on Craigslist.com:

WANTED: Personal assistant to help a college senior struggling to find time for her academic life as well as her internet life. The assistant’s responsibilities would include, but are not limited to: organization of the employer’s life, scheduling (of homework, appointments, and internet responsibilities), writing dictated materials (blogs, tweets, e-mail, etc), and select domestic duties. Assistant must be proficient with a Mac and have a vast understanding of iLife, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, podcasts and be all around technologically savvy. Excellent writing and grammar skills are a must. Flexible with days and hours as long as 9 hours are worked during any 3 days of the week. Pay is semi-negotiable. You can gladly use the position for any college “internship” requirement, however it is not guaranteed that your college/university will approve. Please do not apply if you do not own (or are not willing to purchase) an internet ready smart phone.

I wrote this want ad because I am in desperate need of a personal assistant and in an ideal, fantasy world I would have one.

On top of being a senior in college, I have far too many projects going on. But I love them all so there’s no way I’m about to give any of them up for some silly free time.

Besides my 18 credit hour school schedule and all the studying that comes with it… I run three blogs–my personal one, Wattlebird and four815162342. I am a co-host of a podcast called Girly Nerdy Goodness. I am an avid blogger and Tweeter and Facebook junkie. I send no less than 5,000 texts per month. I live in a two-bedroom townhouse with a roommate, which requires an endless amount of chores. And I am maintaining a long-distance relationship.

People say that I have too much on my plate. But the truth is, if I’m not this busy I’ll go crazy. I love the fast-pace, hectic lifestyle that I have been building up the last few years and I have no intention on changing it. To better cope, I’m just going to have to hire someone to help me.

Craigslist doesn’t allow the posting of unpaid positions so I listed pay for my assistant as “semi-negotiable.” And by semi-negotiable I mean, it’s unpaid. If Craigslist allowed it, I’d just call it an “unpaid internship” and students would be lining up for the job! Nothing says “resume builder” better than some slave labor!

I am interning this semester at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan and as part of my internship I had been helping to plan a benefit gala.

Well the big gala was last Thursday at the DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids and it truly was a “motivating and inspiring” evening. Attendees paid $150 a seat and were also encouraged to donate more once they were there. And why wouldn’t they donate more? The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a wonderful organization that does so much good for so many sick children in Michigan.

I had been working with MAW in putting together this event for a few months. I mostly dealt with calling attendees and donors so I really had no idea about anything else, like the decor. The gala was under-the-sea themed and it was called Enchantment. There were tons of sand, (fake) coral reefs and fish, balloons as bubbles, a mannequin dressed as a suba diver hanging from the ceiling, girls dressed as mermaids, a giant clam, real boats “shipwrecked” in the venue, a wooden pirate ship as the stage, and a treasure chest.

The quality of the photos isn’t the best. You would never guess that I have a pretty good camera, right? It was super dark in the venue and the flash made everything real washed out looking so I used some fancy “theatre” mode my camera had.

I was honestly blown away by how all of this came together. I was speechless when I walked in and saw the end result.

We also granted a little girl’s wish for a puppy that night. She wanted an English Bulldog. So we got her an English Bulldog puppy! She was so happy. It was really cute!

The last two are the only pictures I had of me from the night. One of me in the bathroom (with my matching cell phone) and one of my boss, Cara and I.

I feel really lucky to have had the opportunity to be able to do something like this and to be able to work with these people. I really feel that I’ve learned so much more from this internship than just work experience. I had previously wanted to go into music or sports public relations but now I’m almost certain that I will end up in non-profit public relations or philanthropy.