I first wrote this post for the SAS blog Conversations and Connections. SAS has been awesome enough to let me repost it here.

Editor’s note: Our summer intern Stacey tells me there’s a good reason she illustrated this post with a picture of a BLT. I think she was just hungry.

Week of July 5, 2010

(Monday, 7/5) Holiday:

I didn’t work today. I celebrated my independence from the British.

(Tuesday, 7/6) Day 16:

I had a lunch date today with Meg (the girl in social media I met two weeks ago), her friend Kendra (who works in customer success stories), and Meghan (another social media intern that works for one of the SAS companies). It was good to hang out with people nearer my age and talk about careers in this field from the perspective of starting a career.

I also beefed up my LinkedIn profile. I have 3 connections now. Don’t worry, I won’t let my fame go to my head.

(Wednesday, 7/7) Day 17:

I attended a virtual conference today put on by MarketingProfs. It was awesome. Not only did they impart some useful information about email marketing, it was set up like a conference hall in a video game. There were different rooms you could go to (Networking, Seminars, Company and Info booths). It was a cool experience, and it was free—the beauty of online.

(Thursday, 7/8) Day 18:

I posted the first two entries to the internal student blog “My Summer at SAS.” I’m officially a blog editor. I feel more prestigious already.

Dave set up a lunch-n-learn for today so all the interns could learn about how to (and why they should) participate in social media. To learn more, see my post from yesterday. It made me feel like I need a smart phone. And maybe an iPad.

(Friday, 7/9) Day 19:

Today I had the pleasure of attending a video shoot with Dave for the welcome video that will go out to new SAS managers globally. All I did was hold extra cameras and give out the occasional suggestions (one of which ended up being the scene for the second video segment). Key grip. That’s what they called me. I still don’t think I know what it means. But I got to go around campus and watch funny things, so I give it an A+.

Weekly Recap:

That all sounds really fun, but are you doing anything besides making friends and learning stuff? Of course I am. This week, I’ve gotten more information for the Social Media Directory that will go on the portal in the form of dashboards. Where there are holes in the lists, I’ve been using the keywords to search for more resources on the main social media platforms. Then I threw the PR team for a loop, and sent out a second series of outlines requesting information. They were nice about it, and got it all to me pretty quickly. Thank you PR team! So the next stretch will be mostly about research, spreadsheet organization and tagging. I’m starting to have a relationship with Excel. We spend so much time together.

I also got a new project this week—that’s more research and organizing. I’m going to be creating Twitter lists for the SAS Twitter account categorized by industry topics. Now anybody looking for influential Twitterers in something like Analytics can just go to the @SASsoftware Twitter page and find a list they can start following. We are so helpful. You’re welcome, world. All in a day’s work.

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