Day one as an advertising coordinator...

Today was Day One at Experts-Exchange!! One word to sum up my day.... YAY!!!

Quick timeline of my day:

8am - arrive!!

8-10:30am - Welcome to my new desk, get comfortable with Experts-Exchange's site, and also set up three different chat messengers and add them to Trillian. EE uses yahoo, AIM and MSN messenger to talk throughout the office. It's awesome! No need to check e-mail or try to find the person you need somewhere in the office. 

10:15am - Mini tour of the office which included the coffee machine, the SNACK DRAWER, and a fridge full of water, jucies, energy drinks and much more! I was shocked and totally stoked! 

10:30-11:15am - Marketing Meeting that happens every Monday morning. It was a brief introduction of the marketing team and the creative team. I met, in order of the circle they happened to sit in... Danae, Lillian, Mark (aka Ace), Katie, Gary, Mike, Stephen, Stephany, Mark (aka Barbir) Mary, and Jenna. My boss is Jonathan. Lots of people, but I think I have the names already, but we'll see if I can be as quick with the engineers and system admins... yikes!

11:15-12:30p - Getting more familiar with Experts-Exchange's site and personalize my computer, email and chat messengers. I also had a meeting with my boss, Jonathan. We talked about the immediate future with my position and what to expect. 

12:30-1:15p - Lunch at Subway. Time to recharge!

1-5p - More configuring of my PC (yeahhh I have to use a PC), receiving my first set of free stuff and exploring the free drinks fridge.

 

Now onto my insight into my day... aka the more personal part!

So I show up a little bit before 8am and since I don't have a key, I have to ring the doorbell to be let in. The second I rang the doorbell, I swear my heart stopped for a few seconds. "What did I get myself into!?" ran through my head. This is a job that I've never done with people I didn't know... Very nerve racking!

So then the office manager (Kathryn) is out for the day so I don't really go through the new employee orientation. I get a post-it with my user name and password and I already have email. I have been there for a grand total of 15 minutes and I already have email. I dove in with both feet! It was great!

In my meeting with Jonathan, I found out a little bit more about what I'm going to be doing for Experts-Exchange. I'm slowly gaining understanding of my job and I really like that.

I learned I have a pretty gnarly non-disclosure agreement I'll be signing probably tomorrow. I understand why I would need to agree to it, but WOW! It's a little bit more gnarly than the Starbucks' agreement. No telling mommie or daddie or Ry or you, my blog readers. Nope Nope!

One of my favorite parts of the job so far... FREE JUICE!! And super cool people in the office. OH! And they wear jeans!! I was the only one in heals... 

OH! And I also got a mini hand-slapping today! Since I haven't gone through the new employee orientation drill yet... I didn't know I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside the building. So near the end of the day, I snapped a quick picture of the front desk of the office... someone told me that was strictly against the rules... Too bad! I wanted to post a mini tour of my new digs... Oh well! You'll have to imagine my descriptions of my office!

Stay tuned for more Team EE updates!

Until next time...

And the nerves set in...

I can not believe tomorrow is finally (almost) here!! I start my first REAL job in the morning at 8am!

I have packed a snack bag consisting of banana chips, red, yellow and orange peppers and some dried mangos. Yum!

I'm still unaware of what I will be doing for the first few days... so we'll see!!

Tune in tomorrow night for the update on my first day at Experts-Exchange!! 

I, Noelle Seybert, will be the Advertising Coordinator for E-E starting tomorrow!!

Until next time...

My cat is a wannabe GQ model...

We all need blogs that are just fun. There isn't much of a purpose to them or a message trying to be conveyed. 

This blog is no exception....

Those of you who know my family and how we treat our pets. They are more spoiled than some children. Since they're considered part of the family, they're treated like royalty. 

My cat, Frosty (who actually likes my dad way more then he likes me right now...) thinks he should be on the cover of GQ magazine.

My cat Frosty trying to convince me 

he needs to be a GQ kitty

Wonder if I'll turn into a dreaded stage-mom?

Oh and for those who read my previous blog about Frosty going to the doctor... he's doing much better!!

Until time next...

Free tacos anyone?

Jack In The Box has struck again! 

Just as I'm getting sick of the Hang in there Jack.com campaign I wrote about in a previous blog, I got an update on facebook telling me I can get two free tacos on February 24th just by printing out THIS coupon!

So in support of Jack Box and his recovery, I'm going to go get me some free tacos on the 24th, who's with me?

Until next time...

I'M EMPLOYED!!

It's official!

I signed an employment offer this afternoon with Experts-Exchange! I'm their advertising coordinator which is a newly formed position, but holds so much potential for a fun and exciting environment!

I was SHOCKED to walk into the office and see the offer of employment on the conference table when I sat down, but SO relieved that I had FINALLY found SOMEONE to offer me a job! haha

Basically my job will make me the point of contact with the advertising provider for Experts-Exchange's website and how to monetize the logged out portions of the site better. Pretty much, make money through advertising.
I'm stoked!!

If you want to learn more about Experts-Exchange, visit their website by clicking here.

Thanks for all of those who always believed in me and were pulling for me throughout this whole ordeal!

Until next time...

Advice to mom's everywhere...

Ever since I moved home, my mom has commented on how I don't pick up after myself (it's really not THAT bad) and how I used to complain about how messy my roommates at Point Loma were and how the kitchen never seemed to be clean... etc. Typical roommate annoyances right?

Well I thought the reason for the lack of cleanliness and care about the communal spaces in the apartment was because the girls had never lived outside the parental nest before. Though this may be true, I have figured out why I never do the dishes at home and how come when I'm somewhere it's messy, the filth bothers me. Both Ryan's mom and my mom don't believe us that we know how to do dishes and keep a space clean... quite untrue!

I came to this conclusion while visiting Ryan in Isla Vista. For those who haven't read previous blogs about his roommates, he lives in an apartment with three other guys. I'm not a huge fan of the roommates, but that's a different story...

Every morning, Ryan and I walk downstairs to the site of a tornado or ground zero of an exploded bomb. Sticky shot glasses everywhere and remnants of all sorts of alcohol on the table that missed the shot glass when being poured. That and bowls of unidentified food from the midnight munchies piled into the sink. I could go on....Anyways... so Ryan and I have this morning routine of cleaning the dishes, putting them away and disinfecting the countertops. Then the trash gets taken out while I start breakfast.
Mom's reading this will be like YEAH RIGHT! However, I tell no lie!! It truly happens!

So my advice for moms... What happens when there are dishes piling up at the sink at home and the dishwasher is full of clean dishes? I'll usually empty the dishwasher and load it because it's driving me crazy. Why don't I do this always? Well, simply because I know my mom (or dad) will do it. Yet, if it's left long enough, I do it. However, with roommates of any kind, I know the others won't do it, so I just suck it up and do it or it won't get done.

In short, moms, don't baby your kids. It will make happier roommates of your kids in the future.

Until next time...

For those who listened to The Dave Congalton Show

Thanks so much for visiting my website. 

Whether you heard me on The Dave Congalton Show or have stumbled across this website via facebook you're in the right spot!!

Quick links for more information about me are this website (www.NoelleSeybert.com) and my résumé.

My experience includes:

3 years of event planning experience

3 years of recruiting experience

3 years of customer service experience

6 months of donor relations experience

Jobs I would enjoy:

Anything to do with:

Customer Service

Event Planning

Public Relations

Marketing

Or something in a similar area...

If you want to contact me for further information:

Email me

Thanks so much for visiting 20 Something Blvd

Until next time...

Tune in from 4-5PM PST!!!

Hey all you 20 Something Blvd followers! I'm going to be on The Dave Congalton Show this afternoon from 4-5pm PST talking about the current economy's effect on recent college grads.

The station streams live so go to www.920KVEC.com to check it out live!!

Until next time...

Implant update...

As I posted in my previous blog, Friday marked my second step in the implant process. However, I didn't know that being so young meant I didn't have to have any bone grafting done. Yippee! One less step! So I went in and had the screw placed in my jaw. Sounds pretty awful, but it wasn't that bad.

The morning started with my dad making me breakfast (four egg whites and some toast) and then taking 2000mg of antibiotics. 2000mg!! Usually one dose (500mg) of this antibiotic makes my tummy queasy... so I couldn't wait to feel the war that would inevitably be going on in my tum tum. So I ate some yogurt and hoped the pro-biotics would kick the antibiotics in the butt and not wage war on my insides. It helped a bit, but not as much as I would have liked.

I arrived at the dentist's office around 9:30am and then went back to the operating room and then got "floaty air" aka nitrous oxide. It was the alternative to going completely under a general anesthesia. It felt like I was floating... it was intense! Even though I was awake the entire time and I was able to hear everything... I didn't care! haha

The dentist literally cut my gums open, and scraped my jaw bone and then placed a screw down into my jaw. With a wrench/screw driver (at least that's what it sounded like) he literally placed the screw into my jaw. I now have a screw in my jaw. Awesome! By the time I left, I was completely "sober" and didn't feel any of the affects of the nitrous oxide, but half of my tongue and my lips were still completely numb. It was an awkward feeling. I was able to walk out of the office and head home to my cold and soft food diet for the next twenty-four hours.

I quickly ditched those orders and had pizza that night. Cut it up into pieces and chewed on one side of my mouth. I have been doing that for a few meals now. It seems to be working out for me just fine.

The only complaint I have now is the fact my stitches are REALLY bugging me now... but I had virtually no pain after the surgery. Little to no swelling... no complaints!

Until next time...

I'm getting an implant!

A DENTAL implant that is. This morning I will be going in for the second step in the dental implant process.

Steps of the implant process:

1. Step one: Extract tooth in question - Check!


2. Step two: Graft in bovine bone into hole a couple months later - Check!


3. Step three: Put post in ossified bone area - TBA


4. Step four: Get crown molded - TBA


5. Step five: Get crown screwed onto post - TBA

So this morning I'm off to do step two of the process and in a couple months when the bone graft is ossified, they're screw the post in and then the next step and then the next and then voila! I have a tooth back!!

To think this whole process started in October... sheesh!

Until next time!

A song that touched my heart...

I am someone who loves words. I love the way you can make something boring sound fabulous with the proper adjectives and verbs. Sentence structure and word choice can make (or break) books. 

I'm also someone who will rarely just listen to a song for the sake of listening. I love lyrics to songs and have a handful of songs that I think are truly amazing and touch my heart. 

I first heard this song on my friend and former co-worker, Ashlyn's wedding slideshow, but my boyfriend just introduced me to the man who actually sings it. I'm so grateful that he did. 

"Falling in love at a coffee shop"

-- Landon Pigg --

Until next time...

My brother went to the doctor this morning...

This title probably caught many of you who know me off guard. "Wait.... since when does Noelle have a brother?" is probably going through your minds. "I thought she was an only child..." Well yes, I still am an only child but I consider the two family cats brothers because they're inside only cats and they are practically family.

So this morning my dad woke me up with an email saying Frosty ("my" cat and the oldest at 14 years old) was at the vet and they'd be home soon.

Frosty wrote a blog about his experience found here.

Until next time...

Jack In The Box caught my attention...

Along with millions of Americans and those in many different countries, I sat on the couch and watched a four hour event called Super Bowl 43. I ate snacks which included chicken wings, mini quesadillas and even some starbursts. However, half-way through the Super Bowl, I started wanting a monster taco from Jack In The Box. Not a normal craving for me, so let me explain.

Those of you who watched the commercials as intently as I did, noticed this commercial from Jack In the Box...


So, of course I went to Hang in there Jack.com to see what they were up to. It was an interesting video post by someone at Jack In The Box confirming that Jack had been hit by a bus.

Well with my previous blog post, I posted that this video was one of my favorites of the Super Bowl and so I decided to check out Hang in there Jack.com again to see what they'd done with the page. To my surprise they have multiple video "updates" and various other websites that you can go to to gain more information on Jack's status. Hang in there Jack.com gives the visitors a way to write get-well cards, record get-well videos, an address to send get-well cards and you can also sign up for email and text message updates. I was BLOWN away!

This website is FULL of new media ways to keep posted on this beloved mascot of a fast food chain. And, if I remember correctly, I don't think I saw another fast food ad all Super Bowl. If I did, it didn't seem to have the same call to action that Jack In The Box had.

The Hang in there Jack.com site appeals to many different types of social networkers as well. With links to their Facebook and Twitter pages, both telling you that Jack's assistant is going to up taking over the pages and updating those who are concerned about Jack.

My curiosity wondered how far Jack In The Box would go with this so I went to their normal Jack In The Box.com site and the landing page for this site tells the visitor about the accident and gives the option to go to the Hang in there Jack.com page or to continue to the real Jack In The Box.com site. It's CRAZY!

SO needless to say, Jack In The Box.com has caught my attention and I will continue to follow the updates that come up and see how far they go with this campaign.

Until next time...

The who's who of commercials were out on Sunday...

To be honest, though I enjoy watching sports and the NFL is one of my favorites, I watch the Super Bowl for one thing in particular... THE COMMERCIALS!!

I have talked with a few people about yesterday's commercials and there seems to be one common thought about them... they just weren't that great. Yes, there were a few ones that I actually laughed out loud to and rewound the DVR to see them again, but that didn't happen often enough like in previous years.

However, with that said, here are my top five commercials (in NO particular order) of Super Bowl 43...











Hang in there Jack!!

Until next time...

Trade shows won't be my thing... for now

Friday marked the day that Simply Clear Marketing Inc. told me that they weren't going to be adding anyone to their team right now. Though it was a major blow, it was to be expected honestly. They hadn't called or contacted me in two weeks and I had attempted contact with them on a couple of occasions. *shrugs*

However, I spent Thursday and Friday and most of Saturday at UC Santa Barbara visiting Ryan and just having fun with him. We ended up coming home Saturday to pick up his new Mac Book (*jealous*) because his old Powerbook (YEAH he was still using a POWERBOOK) had finally bit the dust. So we're home and going to be watching Super Bowl 43 at my house while he works on studying for a midterm he has tomorrow morning.

As for me.... I'm rooting for the Arizona Cardinals because I feel like they're the underdog team in this fight.

So bring on the nachos, beer, veggie trays and amazing commercials... GO CARDINALS!!

Until next time...