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Posted January 5th, 2010 By NickyD | No Comments |
With Meltwater since June 2006, took a world tour with Meltwater News through Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, New York, Buenos Aires, most recently landing in SF to help build the MW Communications effort.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: BA Political Economies of Industrial Societies, UC Berkeley 2006
Fanatical about: Cycling, running, Danish Modern, art collecting, music mixes, Bourbon
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If you are a young professional, I can’t advocate seeking out a mentor enough. A mentor is by definition more senior than you and has had greater professional experience, but most importantly, a mentor is your source for inspiration and long-term development. A mentor is invaluable for bouncing ideas off of and learning from.
To make the most of your mentor-mentee relationship, remember that it’s your responsibility to make your mentor’s investment in you a valuable use of his/her time. It’s not all take, take, take.
I came across some helpful advice on how to maximize the relationship with your mentor, and thought…
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Posted October 16th, 2009 By NickyD | 3 Comments |
With Meltwater since June 2006, took a world tour with Meltwater News through Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, New York, Buenos Aires, most recently landing in SF to help build the MW Communications effort.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: BA Political Economies of Industrial Societies, UC Berkeley 2006
Fanatical about: Cycling, running, Danish Modern, art collecting, music mixes, Bourbon
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President Barack Obama arrived in San Francisco Thursday evening to attend a Democratic fundraiser at the Westin St. Francis hotel. Various groups rallied in Union Square for causes that range from health care reform to ending the war in Afghanistan and reforming international trade agreements.
Meltwater News ran an analysis on the latest media mentions in relation to the hottest Obama-related topics this week.
We took an informal poll in the Meltwater San Francisco office before we ran the graphs, and it was a toss up in the office between which topic would be most publicized. After running a domestic and international search,…
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Posted October 7th, 2009 By NickyD | No Comments |
With Meltwater since June 2006, took a world tour with Meltwater News through Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, New York, Buenos Aires, most recently landing in SF to help build the MW Communications effort.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: BA Political Economies of Industrial Societies, UC Berkeley 2006
Fanatical about: Cycling, running, Danish Modern, art collecting, music mixes, Bourbon
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You’ve heard about it for months. Maybe you’ve been sick or know someone who has.
This morning, the medical software company Cerner Corp. announced its Flu Pandemic Initiative with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The federal government and Cerner Corp. have teamed up to use Cerner’s newly developed medical software system to help track “hot spots” of swine flu outbreaks in order to forecast future developments.
Due to the timeliness of this article, Meltwater thought it would be interesting to run a retroactive report, using Meltwater News, to show the Swine Flu…
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Posted June 2nd, 2009 By NickyD | No Comments |
With Meltwater since June 2006, took a world tour with Meltwater News through Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, New York, Buenos Aires, most recently landing in SF to help build the MW Communications effort.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: BA Political Economies of Industrial Societies, UC Berkeley 2006
Fanatical about: Cycling, running, Danish Modern, art collecting, music mixes, Bourbon
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In my last post I outlined my world-wanderings with Meltwater News. It’s been incredibly rewarding to move from city to city, but of course that’s coupled with tough days. I’ve met amazing people and have been pushed to confront challenges that I wouldn’t have faced in any other environment at my age. And they were hard as hell. I was out of my comfort zone too many times to recount. It wasn’t glamorous: working together to establish process and work flow in my very first office and initially having a really tough time hitting the sales targets in Philadelphia. There…
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Category: Career Reflections
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Posted May 21st, 2009 By NickyD | No Comments |
With Meltwater since June 2006, took a world tour with Meltwater News through Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, New York, Buenos Aires, most recently landing in SF to help build the MW Communications effort.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: BA Political Economies of Industrial Societies, UC Berkeley 2006
Fanatical about: Cycling, running, Danish Modern, art collecting, music mixes, Bourbon
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It’s not the first time at Meltwater that I’ve been presented with a task foreign and intimidating to me with the expectation that I would step up to the challenge.
Meltwater News represented to me exactly what I wanted out of my first job - the possibility to lay a career path for myself in an entrepreneurial company where I’d be exposed to business on a practical level. At that point in time, Meltwater News had only one US office in the heart of Silicon Valley that was nothing more than a pile of cardboard boxes and unassembled Ikea furniture. I had no…
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Category: Career Reflections
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