Thursday, July 16, 2009

Another busy day at Celebrity Society



After working hard on the Men's Power Issue, we are all polishing up our celebrity profiles and sending them away to be edited. For the past two days I have been working on a few projects that have kept me extra busy around here. First, a profile on the creators of Twitter- Biz Stone and Evan Williams (Or @Biz and @Ev for all you tweeters!) These guys seriously won the website jackpot. A little concept that they created for fun has now turned into to the must-use website. The most amazing aspect of Twitter is that they don't even make a profit off of it! (Well, not yet!) It has been interesting to learn of all the ways that Twitter has been used positively too- Helping coordinate protests in Iran as well as many celebrities using it for charity giveaways. If you haven't singed up for twitter yet, what are you waiting for? If you have, follow me! Twitter.com/Nicole_Bruno :)

Another profile I have just started is on Doug Melton. He is a hugely famous scientists who has contributed greatly to stem cell research. Although he is probably the least fun to write about, he has definitely changed the world for the better. Lastly our editor is working on a tribute to Michael Jackson so I've been trying to track down free publicity images of him. I have been using Getty Images which is a genius company! They charge per celebrity picture- a great concept. Also a great resource to have learned about early on in my career since I know I will be using them constantly for articles.

I hoping to have all of my profiles done tomorrow so I can start working on a few more University Link Magazine articles soon. Looking forward to some relaxing beach time this weekend first!

Thought of the day: Experience, no matter how great or small will benefit you greatly at some point of your life.