Intern Blog

by: Emily Cao, Marketing & Audience Services Intern, Summer 2022

07/01/2022

During my first week, I got to meet my amazing supervisor Jill Tokac, and we set up some goals for me. I got to learn more about Boston Baroque, its history, and the staff. Then I went over my first project which was making a social media campaign for Boston Baroque! It was really exciting to be able to think of ideas and then bring them to life. I then created some Facebook events for the upcoming Boston baroque concerts. It was so cool to get to learn hands-on experience with social media marketing.

07/12/2022

Today I continued putting together the social media campaign and put up an event listing on various social media platforms. Boston Baroque is having the 50th season soon, and it’s really rewarding to be a part of it.

07/19/2022

I got to meet Emily Kirk Weddle! She is the Director of Marketing & Digital Content at the Boston Baroque. It was a super cool experience to be able to talk to her and learn more about her and see how she got to where she is now. I learned so much about her work as well as marketing strategies, and how she created the Boston Baroque website.

07/27/2022

This week I got to learn more about how the Boston Baroque website functioned. I learned about SEO’s as well as the website layout. Additionally, we went over social media analytics and how to interpret them. I also got the opportunity to make a couple Youtube playlist for the Boston Baroque Youtube channel!

08/02/2022

This week I got to meet and chat with Maria Whitcomb. Maria is the Development Operations & Database Manager at the Boston baroque. She also graduated from school pretty recently and shared a lot of wisdom about navigating life in a career of arts and management.  She was super sweet and had so many helpful tips that I can bring with me!

08/09/2022

Today I got to meet with Katie DeBonville. She is the Chief Development Officer and Campaign Manager, which means she has a lot of experience fundraising! She taught me about the importance of listening in a conversation and how that can totally change the result when talking in a business deal or fundraising event. She was so knowledgeable and I learned so much from talking to her. This week I also learned how to use Hootsuite! Hootsuite is an social media analytics tool that allows you to see how you are doing on various platforms. I got to make a presentation on our numbers on Canva and it was super fun. Check out the links below to see the presentation I made!

08/12/2022

This week I got to have lunch with my supervisor, and talk about how I was doing. I’m also working on this internship page that you are reading right now :) In addition, I’m looking forward to meeting Dan Ludden and Jennifer Hughes from the Boston Baroque, and learning from their work experiences!