Congrats! You just landed the perfect social media internship! The company loves that when it comes to social media, you are young and “in the know,” and they put you in charge of posting content. The only problem is you only work twice a week and they want you to post on social media every single day. What do you do? You can take time out of your days off to post OR you can schedule your social media posts. The following are the tools that save me time and make my boss happy. Continue reading “Helpful Tools for Busy Interns”
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Five Simple Ways to Improve Your English
Let me paint you a picture of why I felt the need to write this blog post…
The public relations industry here in the U.S. relies heavily on an effective use of the English language. As a field, it is competitive, charismatic and all about the compelling nature of the written and spoken word. To be an effective PR practitioner, the ability to write well is mandatory, be it for business proposals or internal reports, it’s essential. Simultaneously, we also need to speak well for presentations and pitches.
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Five Must-Knows for Throwing a Great Event
Too often, event management is considered to be an easy-to-enter industry. If you are passionate or interested in event planning, you do not need a specific degree on the subject – regardless of if you majored in Engineering or Dentistry – to be an outstanding event manager. While this is very true, event management is not as simple as it appears. From all of the experience I have on planning events, I have concluded five must-knows as an event planner.
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Meet Fall 2014’s First Member of the Month!!
Our first Member of the Month for the Fall 2014 semester is Nathalia Alves Tavares Da Silva. Nathalia, a sophomore who will be graduating in May of 2017, is a Communications major working toward minors in East Asian Languages and Culture, focusing on Chinese, and Video Game Design and Management. While she is originally from Brazil, she has lived in Mexico and China for most of her life. In addition to being a member of the Viterbi team since this summer, Nathalia has been a TriSight member since her freshman year, when she was a member of the SCA team. Aside from being a superstar member of TriSight, she currently works for ASCJ as a part of Stacy Smith’s research group. Additionally, she is a part of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority and has plans to get more involved in both recruitment and alumni connections within the organization. Nathalia’s favorite part about going to school in Los Angeles is attending events with amazing speakers and having opportunities for hands-on work, especially in the entertainment field. The next time you see Nathalia, make sure to tell her congratulations!
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10th Annual SPR Picnic
This past weekend, TriSight had the pleasure of sponsoring the 10th annual Strategic Public Relations picnic at the beautiful Malibu home of Director Jerry Swerling and his wife Karen. The event was a complete success, as both graduate students and faculty members had the chance to get to know each other away from campus. See some of the pictures from Saturday below!



