A Meeting With Hasbro

Today was a great day at my internship. I got invited to a meeting with my editor, Carol, with the toy company, Hasbro, in one of the PC Magazine office conference rooms. Hasbro is releasing a new toy at the end of this summer. I can't say what that toy is yet because it is not set to launch yet until the middle or end of June, so my lips are sealed. But as soon as I can say anything, it will be posted here on my blog.

Corrine, a girl that works at PC Magazine, taught me how to pitch stories to other blogs today. It was a story that was on gearlog.com about one of our computer analysts thought the new Blackberry Bold handheld device sounded more like the name of a drink, so he tried to order one at a Grand Central Station bar. It felt a little weird to pitch a story about alcohol, because as a Mormon I do not drink, but all I had to do was write a headline and a summary of the article. I will be sending it via email to several blogs tomorrow.

I also wrote two blog posts today; one about a new online business called Uptake, where you can plan an entire vacation all in one site (includes plane tickets, hotels, attractions, and all, even campgrounds, mountains, lakes, natural wonders and you name it for those of you like my roommates last year that like the outdoors), and the other blog post was about MySpace and how it just won a $230 million dollar deal against some spam artists. Most of the information I used to write the posts was provided by press releases, but it was still fun to write.