Internships at Handshake Media

Greetings, Prospective Intern.

Thank you for your interest in an internship with Handshake Media, Incorporated. You will be working with me, Anne Giles Clelland, as your supervisor. Although job descriptions may vary, below are the principles by which I would like to work with you.

What I would like to receive from you:

- Original, one-of-a-kind, never-before-seen, creative work
- Your creative vision and your skills to help communicate and develop our company's mission and the missions of our company's clients and partners
- Openness to creative synergy and synthesis
- Openness to being present to directly address conflicts as they arise, as they always do in both personal and professional relationships
- A general vision for serving the greater good
- Response to personal emails from me, emails generated by our project management software, or texts from me in under 48 hours

What's a dealbreaker for me:

- An unprofessional online presence
- Cruelty online or off
- Boundary violations in terms of respect for my person and position
- Going the wrong way down a one-way street, not because I don't honor individual choice, not because it breaks the rule, but because it endangers others
- Not using the search feature on Handshake 2.0 and looking to see if I've already written an answer to a question before asking me it, up to maybe 3 times
- Pretty much anything boring
- Untimely completion of tasks
- Lack of response to emails and texts, with 48 hours as the outside limit

What's not a dealbreaker for me:

- Creative risk
- That creative risk failing

What you will receive from me:

- Open communication about the business of running a company, particularly of a technology start-up
- Exposure to the art, craft and business of online PR and marketing for personal, professional and corporate use
- Exposure to the art, craft and business of mobile app development, from idea to market
- Coaching, support and instruction in creating your professional online presence
- Openness to hearing, and executing, your ideas
- Openness to synergy and synthesis

Written text and visual products (images, graphs, photos, videos) you create for Handshake Media - to which you retain the rights - would need to be in accord with:

- Handshake Media's purpose and mission. These pages can help with that:

- best legal practices for online content creation, i.e. no copyrighted images, materials or music used, and appearance releases must be signed by those who appear in images or videos.
- my taste.

I will share confidential information, intellectual property and trade secrets with you that, if others learned this information, could be harmful to my company and beneficial to my company's competitors. I would need you to keep that information confidential and to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

If these principles match yours, I would welcome working with you.

Very best wishes,
Anne Giles Clelland

Interns with Handshake Media, Incorporated

Wil Collins, Virginia Tech Class of 2013, fall, 2011-present.
Matthew Yourshaw, Virginia Tech Class of 2014, summer, 2011-present.
Metra Razzaghi, Virginia Tech Class of 2009, spring, 2009.
Melinda (Mindy) Marcus Brown, Virginia Tech Class of 2010, second intern with Handshake Media, fall, 2008.
Adam Scouse, Virginia Tech Class of 2009, first intern with Handshake Media, fall, 2008.