New Commons is a think and do tank that wants life long learners who love to execute what they have learned in an action-research inquiry. We are shifting the internship as getting “real word” experience to an engagement that helps the committed learner find the work they love.

Every semester we typically have two to three internships available for interested students who want to get in engaged with our work and develop a portfolio.  These internships are 12-week temporary assignments for anyone up to the challenge. 
Interns that have succeeded in our environment are:

• Self-starters
• Embrace complex thinking
• Able to be deadline driven
• Bring solutions
• Enthusiastic
• Love the internet
• Open to learning
• Hard working: you are not hung up on the 9-to-5 think or Spring Break.

The three internships:

• Client & Event Coordination - still open
• New Media Internship - Joint internship still open
• Web/ Marketing - still open

Client and Event Coordination Internship
Start Beginning of each semester
Interns will assist in the planning and coordination of the New Commons Client projects and events, and various public events like Providence & Beyond or New Commons Academy.   General tasks:

•  Registration coordination
• Scheduling and workshop logistics for other in house meetings,
• Fulfill speaker and attendee logistics (badge creation, letters, updates, registration transactions and tracking).
• Make calls, schedule meetings for senior consultant and other partners, organize materials and information, follow up on open issues, distribute information, and other general tasks.
• Assist marketing  by distributing letters, email marketing, mail merges.

Start beginning of semester term, 12 weeks 15- 20 hours a week, flexible hours.  This is a unique internship opportunity to develop a body of work that is jointly produced by two companies.   We are looking to produce a Slide show for a campaign called Providence & Beyond.     Must be extremely oriented to details and action, able to be self-directed, have new media literacy capability (visual and audio editing), great design sensibility, and know how to use other new media tools a plus.  Must me able to communicate effectively (specific on deadlines, no rework) with production team, designers and vendors.   This is a great experience in working jointly with two firms that have content and technical expertise. Stipend of $1,000 is available.  Depending on equipment needs and duties, must be able to travel to Warwick to work in production studio. Joint meetings and events will be held either in Providence at New Commons’ studio or Warwick at Precision Web Marketing.  Based on performance, there will be an opportunity to continue the internship in 2008 on a paid basis. 

Web Marketing InternshipStart beginning of each semester term, 12 weeks 15- 20 hours a week, flexible hours  9/5/07 – December 2007 and January 28, 2008- May 2008Under the direction of New Commons’ Principal Michelle Gonzalez we are for a  general web/marketing intern to work in house on the New Commons portal updating our website and doing e-mail marketing outreach for a couple of our campaigns.  Need to know HTML and be open to creating an improved architecture of existing site.  We also have created sub portals:

a.      New Commons Academy (e-commerce needs with online registration)

b.      E-Club (www.Eclubri.org)

c.      City and Soul (www.cityandsoul.newcommons.com )

d.      Providence & Beyond  (www.provbe.newcommons.com ) 

1 Thurber Street/ Jefferson Blvd.Warwick, RI 02886 As a full-service Internet marketing agency, Precision Web Marketing, in collaboration with A Gold Production provides comprehensive research, strategy, implementation, results tracking, and web productions and analysis services in the online marketing arena.  We are experienced at reaching target audiences through search engine marketing, email campaigns, and banner advertisements. We also offer detailed Internet marketing research and Web site usage analysis services. Additionally, we provide precise reporting that details the effectiveness of our online marketing efforts.  Our clients consider Precision an extension of their marketing team. Precision recently launched an online marketing learning center, located in Warwick, RI and to be launched online in 2008.  In this center, we train marketing professionals and entrepreneurs in web strategy and campaign tactics, to help them further their business goals online.  Classes are offered on a monthly rotation, and can be taken in sequence or individually.  For more information, please visit www.PrecisionROI.com   

New Commons, Inc.:56 Pine Street, Providence RI 02903

We are a knowledge experience firm.  We work with entrepreneurs, inventors, civic leaders, and change agents – people who know that the next economy will demand sharper strategies, nimbler organizational structures, swifter performance, lifelong learning, partnership and innovative public policy. Our work focuses on the building and managing of networks of partners, the shaping of strategic plans, and the customizing of agile organizational structures.  We animate work teams, develop provocative reports, and coach leaders to new levels of performance.  We coordinate and oversee a variety of initiatives: Providence & Beyond, www.provbe.newcommons.com, Soul at Work for women leaders www.newcommons.com/page/SAW/Enterprise Club www.eclubri.org,EFNE www.efne.org  and other campaigns to convene a variety of leaders from business, civic organizations and government.  Visit our website, www.newcommons.com