Author Archives: Nancy Heiz

Summer and Fall Internships at Kingston Design Connection

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Kingston Design Connection is looking for interns for summer and fall.

For summer, they are looking for:

Two students to work with our marketing team to support new video series in partnership with Chronogram magazine and other marketing activities for the Kingston Design Showhouse.

For fall, they are looking for:

Three to five students to work with our marketing team to support the 2020 Kingston Design Showhouse and special events.

To apply, email Maryline Damour, maryline@damourdrake.com, and Jessica Williams, jessica@hendleyandco.com.

Marketing Internship at Proctors Collaborative (Summer and Fall)

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Marketing internship with Proctors Collaborative

This internship’s focuses include:

  • Marketing Account Management
  • Copywriting
  • Public Relations
  • Social Media
  • Videography

These internships report directly to a member of the Marketing team. The marketing department is a dynamic department that manages the marketing plans and community outreach for Proctors, UPH and theREP. Responsibilities can involve dissemination of marketing materials, assisting with community outreach, participating in marketing meetings and brainstorming, researching outreach techniques, working with street teams, assisting with community activities and events, contributing to social media and other duties as assigned. All opportunities in this department provide each intern with a well-rounded marketing agency experience while focusing on their interest.

To apply, email Education Director Christine Sheehan at csheehan@proctors.org, or apply online here: https://proctorscollaborative.org/internships

Multiple Fall Internships With Haynes Marketing + Media

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Haynes Marketing + Media is looking for the following intern positions for the fall:

  • Social Media Development and Management
  • Public Relations
  • Digital Media Development

Qualifications include proficiency in Google Drive, Microsoft Office, time management and communication.

Resumes and cover letters should be sent to Kati Haynes, kati@haynesmarketingmedia.com

Remote Social Media Internship at Amberwood Press (Summer and Fall)

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Amberwood Press is looking for interns for their summer and fall website and social media internship.

This internship is for the purpose of giving a student the opportunity to participate in growing and maintaining two very different websites. One, Literary Ladies Guide (https://www.literaryladiesguide.com) celebrates the lives and work of classic women authors (with a secondary subject of women journalists from the past). The Vegan Atlas (https://theveganatlas.com) is a site for vegan recipes and lifestyle.

This internship can work for a media and communications student or a journalism major. My past two interns and I really enjoyed our time together and the content they created has been viewed by tens of thousands of readers, and views continue to grow over time!

For the intern, the experience would include researching topics, creating posts, and helping to expand the social reach of the site. The intern will be involved as follows, and I can provide remote training for all skills:

– Learn the back end of running websites with the WordPress platform.
– Learn to create good SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) with the Yoast plug-in.
– Create 2 to 3 new posts per week on a mutually agreed upon topic (I have lots of web-friendly topic prompts on hand). Learn what goes into creating good content for the web.
– Create shareable graphics for Facebook and Pinterest using Canva or graphics program of their choice.
– Maintain and continue to build social media accounts, especially Facebook and Instagram. Keep records of metrics to see what’s working, and build on successes.

This has always been a remote internship, so this would work especially well now. How it would look is that we could meet more often at first over Facetime or Skype for training in the skills; in the past, I’d meet with the students more frequently at first, then once they were comfortable with WordPress, we would just meet once a week for 2 to 3 hours, with communication as needed in between.

This internship can be tailored to the students’ goals and objectives. If she or he wants to build a portfolio of online published work, that’s a given. If they want to focus more on creating content for social media, that works, too. If a student has a passion for food and wants to build a food photography portfolio, that’s another possibility.

To apply, email Nava Atlas at navaatlas@mac.com

Internship with Dragon360

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Dragon360 is searching for a strategic and creative Business Development + Marketing Intern.

Intern will gain valuable experience working with top marketers and brands with no coffee runs or lame work that wastes your time (and talent). In this internship, you’ll help shape, grow, support, and execute marketing communications and sales strategies alongside the Head of Brand Strategy, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with other senior team members, including the CEO.

Responsibilities May Include:

  • Working alongside the Head of Brand Strategy to help develop, maintain, and execute against Dragon360’s editorial calendar and marketing plan
  • Social media content ideation, creation, and coordination.
  • Developing an ability to flex between the creative and analytical sides of marketing, better understanding what performs well through reporting and distilling insights to help inform our strategy and goals.
  • Proactively monitoring social media and industry news for trending topics and timely engagement opportunities.
  • Creating targeted media lists for press outreach; helping write pitches or releases
  • Conducting actionable, strategic research to help with new business pitches: exploring audiences, market trends, competitors, partners, and more.
  • Translating unearthed insights into actionable plans or recommendations for the agency
  • Writing and optimizing blog posts
  • Supporting live events and workshops as needed
  • Researching and identifying speaking and thought leadership opportunities for executives
  • Presenting a weekly digest of important industry news or developments, notable trends within target verticals, and any interesting social media or other content from competitors to help shape best practices and spark new ideas.

Requirements:

  • Formal education in PR/Communications,, Marketing, Advertising, or a related major
  • Currently in your junior year or above
  • Must be able to work on-site in our office in Kingston, NY for at least 3 full days a week
  • Interest in agency life and digital marketing with an eye for design and ear for copy
  • Eagerness to learn, comfortable taking initiative, and open to working collaboratively
  • Experience creating, editing, and publishing photo and video content to social media platforms. Using Hootsuite, Over, Later, and similar tools to create and schedule posts is a plus.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with strong attention to detail.
  • Ability to write persuasively while adhering to AP style and our agency house style. Penchant for the Oxford comma a plus.
  • Strong ability to prioritize, organize, and manage your own time as you consistently meet deadlines and pivot as needs shift.
  • Crucial soft skills including critical thinking and problem-solving, positivity, leadership, a fierce work ethic, and teamwork
  • Work with Google Suite (Docs, Drive, etc), MS Office, etc. Bonus points if you can use Adobe Creative Suite, and Asana or project management software.

Dragon360 ignites brands. We help our partners—some of the largest companies in the world—solve core business challenges with our people-first approach: unearthing insight, crafting opportunity, and igniting change. Fiercely independent since 2007, Dragon360 has evolved into a full-service digital marketing agency with team members around the world and headquarters in historic Kingston, NY.

To apply:

Send your resume, two writing samples or projects you’re most proud of, and three ideas around how we could improve our social or content game to careers@dragon360.com.

Summer Internship With Energize NY

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Energize NY is looking for two interns for the summer. Interns will be in charge of “Clean Energy Outreach.”

Energize NY, or Energy Improvement Corporation (EIC), is a New York State non-profit, local development corporation that operates EIC OPEN C-PACE for the benefit of its member municipalities, which include counties and cities across New York State, as well as towns in Westchester County.

To get more information and to apply, email Carolyn at Carolync@energizeny.org

Energize NY

Summer and Fall Internships at Breast Cancer Options Inc.

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Breast Cancer Options is looking for one intern for summer and one intern for fall.

This internship involves all aspects of PR including media, PR online, flyers and brochures, event planning and organization, etc.

The internship involves the following duties:
-Advertising-plan approach, identify prospects, solicit ads for event program
-Press release
-News articles
-PSA radio/TV
-Community calendars- print/online. Local, regional and national.

To apply, email Hope Nemiroff at hopenemiroff@yahoo.com.

Breast Cancer Options inc.

Org Comm and Interpersonal Comm Majors Should Take Research Methods Courses to Prepare for Senior Seminars

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The Department of Communication offers two research methods courses (see below) that play a crucial role in preparing students for the subsequent 400-level seminar courses, CMM454 Organizational Communication Seminar or CMM455 Interpersonal Communication Seminar. For this reason, the Department strongly recommends you take one of them instead of CMM353 Persuasion & Social Influence prior to the semester when you take your senior seminar. 

Both methods courses, CMM352 Qualitative Communication Research Methods and CMM354 Quantitative Research Methods, help students become critical consumers of data and scholarly research as well as become familiar with techniques for how to design original research. Broadly speaking, CMM354 focuses on types of research and techniques that result in numbers-oriented data (e.g., surveys, experiments), while CMM352 focuses on types of research and techniques that lead to more context-centered data (e.g., observation, focus groups). Please don’t let the words “research methods” scare you! In the information age, being able to manage and analyze data are skills increasingly sought by employers from a wide range of communication-related industries and professions. 

In sum, these two research methods courses play a crucial role in preparing Interpersonal/Intercultural and Organizational Comm. students for their later 400-level senior seminar. Again, we strongly suggest taking one of the methods classes in place of CMM 353 Persuasion & Social Influence to make sure you are best prepared for success in the senior seminars.