[Marketing Intern Winter-Spring 2010] Hello! My name is Ralph and I am currently an advertising student at San Jose State University. I am a marketing intern at CKR Interactive with hopes to work for an ad agency when I graduate.
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Nickname #38 "the intern," a nickname given to me by some of my good friends at CKR Interactive. My time here at CKR Interactive has been absolutely wonderful. There are so much great people that make up this company and I know they will be around for a while. My learning experience here has been great and is something you just can't learn in school. Leaving this company I truly feel like read more... |
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When you find something you enjoy doing, time seems shorter than ever. Next week will be my last week here at CKR Interactive. While I was sitting at my desk today it really hit me. I started to think about how much I have grown with this company. I started to think back when I first walked into the agency, like a flash back episode on a sitcom. I had drove past the building the day before the interview read more... |
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What Poker Taught Me About Social Media
Just the other day I was browsing the question section on Yahoo! I typed "social media" and a lot more questions came up than I expected. Some of these questions had a pattern, they were about recruiters asking applicants to rank how social media savvy they were. A lot of them were puzzled and unsure how to answer the read more... |
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Today is the day of pranks. Its funny, looking on Facebook there is a whole load of them. People faking pregnancies, marriages and tragedies. What is funny is some of the reactions to these pranks. Facebook, the once upon a time college based social site, now attracts older audiences that think some of this read more... |
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It's always a good night when your favorite team wins a game. Yesterday my dad took my uncle, my brother and me to the Sharks game to watch them clash against the Dallas Stars. I was aware that the Sharks had sort of a hiccup after the Winter Olympics. read more... |
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The weather is amazing, it's Friday, and despite my two hours of sleep I am feeling pretty good. Though I only had minimal sleep I had the weirdest dream. Lately I haven't been dreaming much, so this one really stood out to me. My dream took place in the desert and I was all alone. I was going about 160 mph in an Audi convertible with no intention of stopping. I had so many questions about read more... |
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Old habits are dying out and new social innovations are taking over. This is one of the topics I am constantly reading about on the web. Two major conversations about this topic have dominated the blogging world this week. The first is how the old ways of social networking, like face to face interaction, are not happening as much. Another topic has been how old style job boards are becoming obsolete. After read more... |
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Have you ever had a melt down? Been on "Tilt"? Ever reached that point of no return where you feel completely burned out. I have. I remember the first time I felt burned out. I was taking 18 units, which I said I'd never do and lied, and had too much on my plate. I had a business paper due the next day, a midterm and a presentation. My paper wasn't going in the direction I wanted it to and it was read more... |
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My brother asked me the other day, "Whats going to happen to advertising?" Though it sounded like a simple question, it was actually quite complex. Its a question that a lot of people ponder about. With newspapers losing their readership and everything shifting to different mediums there definitely is going to be a change. I must admit as an advertising major I was a little worried about the future read more... |
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So there I was at the final table. I was by far the youngest player there and had just got involved in a crazy hand. The pot was going to cost me all my chips and my shot at the prize. I had one choice. A cold stone bluff. It was just me and an older gentleman left in the hand. The cards on the board consisted of two kings, a five, a queen and an ace. He wasn't betting at all and had checked his read more... |
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Nickname #32, "Brown Man," a name that was given to me my junior year of high school. It was a cold, stormy, grey filled Friday and my friends and I just left our anatomy class. We had just learned about the functions of pigment in the human skin. According to my teacher, darker skin was able to hold more heat than lighter skin due to more pigmentation. Explaining why people get darker after they read more... |
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"Back to school...got my shoes tied tight..." is the song that is always playing in my head during the first day of school. This is my second to last semester at San Jose State so I am pretty excited to be finishing up. This semester is unlike my other semesters though because my schedule is lacking exciting advertising classes. I am going to be learning about law and history this semester so no read more... |
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It's Friday! Even the rain is gone for the weekend, and I am feeling alive. So, as some of you know, I love copywriting. How much do I love it? A lot. So much that I take it to the next level. I look at copywriting beyond the print on the ads. I see it as a play with words. I believe copywriting is read more... |
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The Aftershock of Social Media
The Bay Area has its ups, downs and occasional shakes. We know these shakes as earthquakes. For some reason this week the earth decided to move around its plates more violently than usual. Unfortunately Haiti read more... |
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It's mind boggling how so much can happen in such a short period of time. During the holidays I finally turned 21, managed to get a girlfriend and hosted a huge New Years celebration. So many changes happened in this past week, I already feel like a new person. For my birthday I went to Teskes, a German restaurant/bar, located in downtown San Jose. It was a lot of fun, but I realized something. read more... |
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It's been my first couple of days here at CKR Interactive and I am loving it. I already feel that I am absorbing so much knowledge and still processing some. Everyone here is also very funny and fun to work with. Since I am the new guy here I figured I'd tell you some read more... |
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