Archive for October, 2010
Halloween Week
I wish “grownup” Halloween was like Halloween in college – where Halloween turns into a week-long event and every day is an excuse to go to a different party and wear a different costume. Sadly, this year wasn’t like that. But that’s not to say that I didn’t have a good “Halloween week.” The last [...]
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A few months ago, during my first Intel trip to New York for Tech Spa, I had the opportunity to have dinner with the internal Intel PR team and the Ogilvy PR team (Ogilvy is one of the agencies that does PR for Intel). At dinner, we played a brilliant game (thank you, Ogilvy) that [...]
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Tags: PR game, pr storytelling game, public relations game, storytelling game
A New York Minute
This was a busy, busy week. I did some serious prepping for my business trip, then I spent 24 hours in New York City, where I helped out with an Intel event (“Upgrade Your Life”) and got to meet a whole bunch really cool mommy bloggers! The highlight, for me, was meeting all the bloggers [...]
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How I organized my desk
I don’t know what your living situation is, but I live in a very small apartment with my boyfriend Carter. Don’t get me wrong, I love our apartment, but accomplishing anything for work or school is stressful when sharing one desk in a tiny nook in the wall. On top of everything, our desk looks like [...]
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Tags: desk organization tips, how to organize a shared desk, how to organize your desk
When to send “thank you” cards
I woke up with an uneasy feeling in my stomach this morning, thanks to my sudden realization that I forgot to send handwritten thank you notes to the reporters and bloggers I met at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last month. I was fortunate enough to sit and talk to some of the [...]
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Event Planning (with a purpose)
Media awe at a prototype racing motorcycle that uses the E600 Intel® Atom™ chip to send data about its engine to a pit crew on Day 2 of the Intel Developer Forum event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As I’m working on getting documents together for the Intel event in NYC that I [...]
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As part of a program I’m involved with through the University of Oregon called the Portland Experience, I’m going to be blogging regularly about my job at Intel. This will take over the majority of my blog posts for the next three months, while I complete this program. After the program is over, my post [...]
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