Events upcoming.

This last little while has been very busy for me at work. September 11th is coming up sooner than expected. That is the day of our Best Buddies Day. I am the project manager for that, and I have been working the event for about 1 month now, and am realizing how detail oriented event planners have to be. Luckily I have a lot of support for this event. I am also going to be helping with the Black Tie Dinner for our Convention in October. The theme of the Convention is.... Yeah right like I would go public with that and lose my job. I am not as dumb as I look. I am really starting to get the hang of things in the PR department and am feeling more comfortable  every day. I have also started to play soccer in the mornings with some guys from my department. I am also getting the hang of things on the soccer field as well. I have not scored a goal yet, once I do I will surely post that and a ceremony will be held in my honor later that morning, so says Carson. Things are going well at work. The Tophams are also up for the Holiday weekend. They are some of our best friends. We love spending time with them. That is all for right now. 

Fun Things

This past couple of weeks I have had the opportunity to do some pretty things with my internship here. This week we had a lot things to do with the XanGo Cup. On Wednesday, I got to go to my first press conference. We announced that we were renewing our jersey sponsorship with Real Salt Lake. It was a lot of fun to see how they are put together. One of the really fun things that I noticed is that Bob knew what the Founders were going to say before the they said it. I am sure Bob helped them know the questions and have responses ready for them. On Saturday was the actual game VS. Club America. Before the game there was plenty things to do. I had to be at the stadium at 1 to help put a single on every chair in the entire stadium. There are 20,000 chairs at Rio Tinto Stadium, so needless to say it took some time to do that. We had a good group of volunteers that really did a great job. We got done doing that at about 4:30. After that we waited for some leaders coming from Mexico, they were going to be filmed and have dinner inside the Budweiser room. The were so excited to be there to watch the match it was really a lot of fun to feel their energy. At about 5:35 I finally got to relax and sit down. My wife was not able to attend the game because she was at Tage's birthday party. So I was all by my lonesome self. It was not that bad, I wish my wife would have been there however for the halftime show, because I was the star. Well my and Austin Gunn a co-worker here. We got to be in the Zorb Ball and be pushed around for halftime. We were the bowling ball and we got to knock over some pins for charity it was a lot of fun.We threw out some t-shirts and had a lot of fun. Currently I am working on a magazine article for Obtainer. They are a very popular magazine in Europe. The story has come together so far very well. I am waiting for my second review from my boss, I will post the story once Obtainer prints it.

Where has the time gone?

Wow have I fallen behind a ton. Things are still going really well at the internship. My big project for the semester is going to be the Best Buddies day for our corporate offices. I will be in charge of the entire project. It will be about September 4th is the planned day. We normally have around 300-400 people that come to it. I am really excited to plan and execute the game plan for the event. I gained valuable experience in event planning from my work with the food&care coalition last semester. I will really use that experience with this project. One cool thing that I got to be a part was we recently had our new PR firm for the United States come in. Publicis was the name of the firm. It was a really good opportunity for me to be around PR pros. I was really impressed with these guys. They all ready some great ideas how we can improve our PR efforts in the United States. It was also a great opportunity to meet a lot of our founders, and executives. Through this I have gained a lot of confidence in the people around me. The company really does have the best talent in the industry with us. I really think my two bosses are some of the best minds in PR. I all ready have learned so much from Jeff and Bob. It would be a dream come true to work these two great minds full time. I guess that is not up to me at this moment. This journal thing has not worked at so well. But I will repent and do better.

Falling Behind

I have missed a couple of days. I have been working on a report with the department. This was one report that I was excited to write about. Though I can not say what the topic was, I will just say that I had a fun time writing it. I am very excited for the weekend. We are going up to Midway for a good long weekend. Hopefully I can relax a little bit. We are going up with my in-laws. I do actually enjoy spending time with them. That is all for right now.

Day 4

Yesterday was the best day so far. They definitely put me to work. I got to help with a case study we are doing about the company newsletter. It was very interesting to hear people's thoughts and opinions on the magazine. In the next couple of days, I am going to have the opportunity to write a report on what I found from the focus groups that I got to observe. I really feel like I am becoming part of the department. Everyone has been really nice to me. Although I am still the intern I have not gotten a lot of the normal stuff most college interns get. It just goes to show how great of a company XanGo really is, and how great the corporate communications department really is. The rest of the day I helped Jeff with a project on the Goodness website will be. The rest of the day I read newspapers and tried to find XanGo in the news.

Day 3

Friday was another fun day. I got to have a meeting with Shar. She is Bob's assistant, and as Jeff said " She is the glue that holds the department together." She was really nice. Shar also made some jewelery for my to give to my wife on Mother's day. After that I ordered office supplies and got introduced to most of the people that the department works with. At the first of the day I had a meeting with Jeff to see how I liked the first few days and to also tell me some of the projects that I was going to work on through the year. I really like Jeff he really knows his field, and is a really nice guy.

Day 2

Yesterday was the day I got to sit down with most of the department individually and talk to them to see what they do, and how I can help. I must say our department gets to do a lot of cool stuff. It is not all fun games though. These are the hardest working people in the company. The department basically makes the company look good to all audiences, the public and also to the employees. I am really looking forward to see what happens in the next couple of months here. I would love this to be a permanent position of course. I need to make the best of it, and have them wonder what they are going to do without me in the department.

My Internship Journal Day 1

I thought it would be fun for me to keep a journal of my internship. It is with the Corporate Communications Department at XanGo. I have been wanting to stay in the state to complete an internship, and to maybe even stay with XanGo. Many prayers were answered when I was told that XanGo would allow me to Intern with them. Because I have been employed with the company since December 2007, it could not have worked better. Hopefully for that reason my learning curve will not be as steep. Day 1 was a lot of getting to know who does what and how the department works. The highlight of the day was getting to listen in on a conference call with a partner PR Firm in Chicago. When I was introduced in the conference call, the firm in Chicago told me I was in the best hands possible for an internship. This was not the first time I have been told that XanGo's PR ( Corporate Communications) Department had the best in the business. As the call proceeded I could tell that I was in the same room with some of the best minds in corporate PR. I am so lucky to have this opportunity to work such great people. I am really going to try and take everything in and learn all that I can from everyone in the department. I really believe that PR is something I can do for a career, this is just first in a very long road a head in the PR field. I cant wait to see what day two will bring.