Catching up to the "Inn Crowd"

Good Afternoon everyone!

I thought I would bring you up to speed on the last few weeks and the events that have taken place. We are continuing with the Innsbrook Biggest Loser competition and in Week 8 James Goose, Jennifer Hall, Cary Leaman, Liz Zorch, and Rob Zorch from the Apex Hamburglers have lost a total of 18.7 lbs. Congrats to them as I eat my fast food lunch in between meetings! ECPI in Innsbrook held a career fair for their current students and alumni, which I attended. There were a lot of tech savvy people waiting to bust into the world of network security, databases, firewalls, and web design. They are required to have an internship in order to graduate so if you need an intern to build websites or bring your company up to speed on the technology revolution, I suggest you start there. Or lure in hopeful master's students, like myself, and offer them good references! Either way you should fulfill your needs. We have softball signups starting now, which I should probably do because I eat fast food lunches. We also have the Innsbrook 5K Run/Walk that benefits the Ronald McDonald house coming up on May 1st; you can register online for that at Innsbrook.com. Ok, enough with the plugs for events coming up.

Interning is turning out to be extremely exciting! I have never done so much researching, willingly, in my entire life. Viral videos, RSS feeds, tweets, posts, and blogs are just the start of the seemingly endless supply of free social media tools. With the way this seems to be going now, advertising is literally going to cost corporations a fraction of what it does now. You get one person, who knows how to infiltrate and utilize every aspect of the social media spectrum; pay them $80K a year (depending on where you are located) and corporations can effectively cut down their advertising budgets by half or more. If any corporation wants to take my word for it, give me a call and I would be happy to get paid $80K a year for doing the same things I am doing now for free.

About the question posed in the last entry; I have come to the conclusion that it is awkward to eat with a bunch of people you don't know because you don't want them to notice how much you are scarfing down. But let’s face it; no one really cares at all what is on your plate. I know I don't! I was so worried about what was on my plate that I failed to even recognize the people around me. The Innsbrook 5K is coming up, so the new question is, why would you pay someone so you can run 3 miles? In my opinion I think that people should pay ME for that.

-The INNtern

The "Inn" Crowd Beginning

Hello all!

The Innsbrook Foundation has finally jumped on the social media bandwagon and started BLOGGING!! With the multifaceted social media bubble at our fingertips we are here to show you the "Inns" and outs of Innsbrook. We will tell you about events happening in the area. We will let you have unprecedented access to the performers at Innsbrook After Hours with pictures and comments, and who knows what else could come of this exciting blogging adventure. I am the social media "Inntern" (snarky, I know) and I will be taking you with me through every experience as I learn about social media, bands, print journalism, charitable events, and booze hounds at concerts. No stone will be left unturned as I navigate my way through inevitable obstacles and amazing experiences. My mission is to inform the masses about different activities around Richmond and Innsbrook, VA, as well as give personal insight into the life of an intern and the experiences I will face on a daily basis. Wish me luck! The first event is in a couple days! We start with the Small Business Task Force, lunch meeting from 11:30-1:00. My biggest question: Why is it so awkward to eat in front of people you don't know? I will share my insights with the next post!

Bye for now,

The Intern