{"id":1861,"date":"2025-09-10T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:12:33","slug":"osu-extension-intern-reflects-on-milestones-marketing-and-mentorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2025\/09\/10\/osu-extension-intern-reflects-on-milestones-marketing-and-mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Extension intern reflects on milestones, marketing and mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello! Emily Killebrew, now Emily Riley, here! So many good things happened this summer
\nduring my marketing internship at Oregon State University Extension Service in the Marion
\nCounty office, including my marriage last weekend. I attended many events, took many photos
\nand wrote many posts! The Instagram page has even gotten a good following started. Yay!
\nNow that I\u2019m in the last month of this internship, I\u2019m looking forward to seeing what the
\nMarion County office has in store to start up fall, such as the propagation classes the Marion
\nMaster Gardeners Program is running and the Grass Seed Certification Process with Brandi
\nFreres, the Grass Seed Certification Aide. I\u2019m also looking forward to some time to organize the
\nphotos I have taken before I leave. There are a lot.<\/p>\n

\n \"\"\n
Emily Killebrew snaps a photo of the Food Safety and Preservation workshop in Scotts Grange. Photo: Sarita Contreras<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

A big struggle I overcame this summer was the work-life balance of moving, my wedding, taking
\ncare of myself and participating in this internship. I found it challenging to stay focused in the
\nright time compartments; however, with the help of my supervisor, we were able to find a
\nschedule that worked best for me. I also gave myself grace reminders when I did not get things
\ndone as expected. Thank you, Elvira Alvarez, for reminding me to do this!<\/p>\n

Speaking of Elvira Alvarez, she and Susan Levy both helped me learn the little nuances of on-
\nbrand social media marketing by using specific words when it comes to names, titles and
\ndescriptions within each social media post. This is important for any future marketing interns:
\nusing correct names and descriptions is more valuable than using a play on words to be creative
\nand not repetitive, either written or verbal. It\u2019s much better to stay consistent with these rather
\nthan finding other ways to call something or someone and offend others by accident.<\/p>\n

As an aspiring writer, I tend to try and find synonyms of a word or other ways to say one thing,
\nso people aren\u2019t distracted by repetitive word usage within my paragraphs or throughout
\nmultiple posts. Now I know that people could get distracted in these instances if I change up
\nthe words too much. I will remember this advice both when writing and speaking and hopefully
\nlearn the delicate balance between the two while keeping the balance between them for the
\nrest of my life.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Kelly Noack taught me that even clear photos do not necessarily mean they create
\na story; what makes the story is other aspects of photos (action, focus, etc.). I hope to take her
\nadvice to heart with any photo I keep and share with others.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Oregon State University Extension Service in Marion County, for all that you taught
\nme and are still teaching me through this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello! Emily Killebrew, now Emily Riley, here! So many good things happened this summer during my marketing internship at Oregon State University Extension Service in the Marion County office, including my marriage last weekend. I attended many events, took many photos and wrote many posts! The Instagram page has even gotten a good following started.… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,65,38],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extension-communications","category-marion-county","category-master-gardener","tag-emily-killebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}