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Month: May 2015

5 Tips for Landing a PR Internship

By Michelle Favalora The Hoffman Agency, San Jose It’s that time of year. Birds are chirping, spring has sprung and college upperclassmen are polishing up their resumes. It can be incredibly difficult to secure an internship, especially when you don’t already have other internship experience to give you a boost. But, there are ways to…

How to land your first pr internship

What Public Relations and Soccer Have in Common

By Jeffrey Lightfoot The Hoffman Agency During my 4-month internship at The Hoffman Agency, I have come to realize that soccer and public relations bear some striking similarities. As a soccer fan and player, every day at the agency was an eye opener to the industry, but at the same time it felt familiar. Here…

What do soccer and public relations have in common?

Women in Tech: 5 Awesome Things that Just Happened

By Kelly Stone The Hoffman Agency, Portland-Vancouver The boys get enough attention. Here are just a handful of awesome things on WOMEN in tech that recently caught my eye. The polarizing Marissa Mayer graces the cover of Fast Company As Fast Company notes: “Even observers who have trouble summoning up optimism for Yahoo’s future give…

5 things that happened for women in tech this week.

Cheryl’s Birthday: Capturing The World’s Attention With a Single Date

By Valerie Lua The Hoffman Agency, Singapore July 16th has inevitably become a date that the world will remember for a while. Just last week, a question was leaked from a Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad test paper. It was about Cheryl, a mysterious girl who was teasing two boys, Albert and Bernard. Both…