Over the course of my internship at Marketing Partners, I’ve learned about a variety of different topics and acquired some important real-world skills. Working with a variety of clients has exposed me to all sorts of different industries, but here’s one of my biggest takeaways that applies to all of them – social media isn’t [...]
Gamification can help you take something as routine as vocabulary building, recycling, or exercise and turning it into something exciting -- making it easier to learn or sustain a behavior. Let's look at three examples of using gamification for social change.
Our test of the Listly plugin on this blog represents every marketer’s dilemma of the need to weigh the benefits of opportunity and change against the potential drawbacks. Listly's appeal to inbound marketers For those who haven’t heard of it, Listly is a social tool that allows for collaborative list curation. One of the most [...]
Tomorrow I will make my final trek of the season down the windy mountain that is Main Street in Burlington, Vermont. I will arrive at Marketing Partners, and work the final day of my internship with the team there before saying my goodbyes and hiking back up our local Everest. The semester-long apprenticeship has left [...]
Internship Landing Strategies is the title of the article I read in the Champlain Current last month. I am graduating from Champlain College in the next few weeks with a Bachelors degree in Communications. I chose to attend Champlain College mainly because of their unique upside down curriculum, which requires at least one internship at [...]
Guest blogger Kelsey Barton is a student at Tufts University who calls Shelburne, VT her home. I was reading the paper[1] last week, and in the cartoon section was a comic strip about the working conditions experienced by a student intern from Duke University. The humor is in the ever-so-slight(?) exaggeration of the intern experience. [...]
