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Cybersecurity Awareness Month at DME

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Ever since 2004, when Congress declared that every October will bring awareness and information about how to protect yourself and your data as more threats arise every day in our modern age. Here at the Digital Media Engagement (DME) Internship, the Web Security department works hard at not only protecting our …

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The Basics Of Cybersecurity- Why It Matters

Why it Matters: As our world becomes more connected, online security becomes more important for everyone. Today, there are many ways attackers can steal your personal information. They can do this through a variety of online attacks: This is just a friendly reminder of the ways to stay safe online. If attackers can gain access …

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What It’s Like As a Social Analytics Intern

Omar Cunningham is a fourth-year student studying business systems and analytics at Stetson University in Florida. Omar was a student-athlete and played wide receiver on his school’s football team before stepping away due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He hopes to have a career as a data analyst for one of the U.S. intelligence agencies and …

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What You Need to Know About Slack, DME’s Main Communication Line

As a part of the DME internship program, all interns are required to use Slack for daily internship communications. Let’s take a look at Slack and what you can expect while using it at DME. What is Slack? This program is the Digital Media Engagement (DME) team’s main platform where interns from over a dozen …

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Engagement and Retention is an important department in the internship, but its jobs and tasks are not always understood. Here a few members of ER and leadership explain the department and projects it works on. Image Caption: A workspace

Engagement and Retention: How Interns Go Through the DME

Engagement and Retention(ER) is an important department in many real-world companies. However, on the Digital Media Engagement (DME) team, ER differs in certain ways. “Most ER professionals incorporate aspects of our engagement, metrics, onboarding, offboarding, and recruitment teams. ER professionals also deal with conflict resolution, payroll issues, and strategic planning,” said Calley Walker, the ER …

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What it's like as an Editing Intern

What It’s Like to be an Editing Intern

Merrit Pope joined the Digital Media Engagement (DME) team as an editing intern this August. A sophomore at Hillsdale College studying philosophy and religion, Merrit learned about the internship through a friend who was a past DME intern. He saw value in working on a virtual internship while completing his schoolwork and felt well-adjusted within …

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