Erratic but not usually boring. My internship at Microsoft has seen me delve into a whole series of tasks which has caused me to re-think skills, build skills and utilize skills. Everything is about skills, skills, skills. Yet knowledge plays a fundamental role each day. Taking notes is important but sometimes it is necessary to remember information first time round. Teaching the brain how to be a... 

Never have I doubted the amount of information my brain can absorb. This week has changed that for a variety of reasons. A diverse amount of tasks has rendered my mind bouncing between different activates whilst also learning how to use the numerous programs Microsoft use to implement online advertising. Before I started my placement at Microsoft it became clear that day-to-day activities and opportunities... 

A couple of days ago Windows Phone 7 launched in over 30 countries with 60 operators. The largest smartphone launch, ever. Steve Ballmer held the fort in America whilst in London Stephen Fry stood on stage and announced, ‘I never thought the day would come that I would stand on a stage and praise Microsoft for doing something they could be proud of’. This is definitely a turning point for Microsoft... 

Ironic, isn’t it? That at the start of this year I should have written a blog post titled ‘Advertising Online is Dead’. Little did I know a few months later I would have started an internship with Microsoft working for the EMEA Online Advertising Team. A rare humility has descended upon me which I shall try to avoid in the future. Which leads me confessing why ‘Advertising Online is not Dead’,... 

The cloud is all around us, it has revolutionised the way in which we communicate with each other and how applications operate. Everybody on the planet communicates across the cloud; it has encompassed our every discussion. Mobiles, ATMs and of course computers are all part of the cloud. The cloud, quite simply, explains the internet. The connotation of the cloud describes the remote hosting of content... 

Did you know that an increasing amount of employers are using social media to check out applicants? So before you send off your CV here are five of my tips: 1. Google Yourself Think like an employer. The first thing I would do would be to visit Google and type in the applicants name perhaps followed by something relevant to their experiences or education on their CV. For instance, when I type ‘Michael... 

For at least 40 hours a week I’m either in front of a desktop, notebook or netbook. All of which are always connected to the internet giving me the digital relief I need when I see a new email, RSS feed update or IM conversation. Technology is addictive because it fulfils the part of the social communication we desire. In the last decade nobody needs to be alone, by the same merit the onslaught... 

Our New Facebook Page: Musings of a PR Student It has been late coming but this marvellous little website can now be found on Facebook. If you could ‘like’ our page, even recommend this blog to friends, then you would be of great help! Being on Facebook isn’t a necessity for building traffic but rather an impromptus quirky oddity which could prove to be a good move or a failure. Let’s see just... 

Above you will see a ‘Bing and Decide’ stress ball. It is actually my second stress ball I have received at Microsoft in just over as many months. When stress balls were being handed out during the Microsoft Internship Induction week I did start questioning the level of the workload. The stress ball above was actually handed to me as a prize during a team software training session held earlier...