Call for Interns: Now Accepting Summer Internship Applications

Summer is coming and with it comes the opportunity to intern at the Make Me Social office in St. Augustine, Florida. Our agency is looking for a few students who are interested in getting hands on experience in: Marketing, Public Relations, Graphic and Web Design, and Sales.

We’re looking for students who are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program; who have completed their Sophomore year; are legally permitted to work in the United States; and have a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0.

To be considered for any of the listed internship positions, please send a copy of your resume to info@makemesocial.net. The email subject should include the specific internship position that you are interested in.

For the full descriptions of each position, please click the appropriate link below:

Marketing Internship 
Public Relations Internship 
Graphic and Web Design Internship 
Sales Internship

As the great meme above says: SUMMER IS COMING. Please send your resume in by May 4th in order to be considered for one of the available internship positions.

The Social Media Conundrum: What is a “Twittership”?

No, not “Tweetership”, I said “Twittership”. Now, I know most of you are probably thinking this is some cool new dating service, or possibly one of our best on the Atlantis, well sorry to crush your dreams all you hopeful lovers! Actually, this word really doesn’t exist in a formal sense.

This message is intended for all you soon to be college students (and parents, too). It’s not time to go back to school quite yet, but as some of you are sitting at home this summer or working endless hours at the mall (or working endless hours on your social networking) looking for ways to pay for your college education, I have come across several “Twitterships”, (a real scholarship and all you have to do is use Twitter).

Can you come up with 140-character tweets? If so, you may be able to help cover some or all of your college tuition. For example:

• The University of Iowa is offering a full $37,000 scholarship to the MBA program as part of the application process for the person with the best 140-charcter tweet by July 28^th.
• Scholarship.com is running a “Short & Tweet” campaign worth $1,000 to the winner by July 31^st.
• CollegeScholarships.org gave out an award for $1,400 for the best tweet highlighting how to use Twitter to improve the world.
• In November 2010, KFC and the Colonel gave out a $20,000 scholarship for tweeting why you deserve a scholarship.

So what’s the conundrum? Show me the money? Not really. The question I really wanted to address is get to the point! Electronic and social media communication is about being timely and relevant, so get to the point … quickly. We need to feed our readers with straight-to-the-point information before it is lost. The end-users feed will only display your message for so long before new and more relevant info gets pulled in. You only have so long for someone to react or interact before they forget, lose interest or do not see your message anymore. Even universities are not ignoring the fact that writing styles and communication patterns are evolving and the typical 1,000-word essay may be a day of the past.

Leave me your best 140-character tweet in the comments section below or on our Twitter page with @srcommando on why you think Twitter can improve the world.

Until next time, keep it short.

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Stephen Command is an Account Manager for Make Me Social, a social media agency that develops customized social media strategies for businesses.