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Posted August 2nd, 2010 By Elinor | 4 Comments |
Joined Meltwater in November 2006 when Meltwater founded their first Australian office in Sydney, and is currently the Recruitment Manager for Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Sydney, Australia
Education: BA (Hons), Warwick University, Master of International Studies, University of Sydney
Fanatical about: books!! red wine, running, politics, and karaoke
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What do Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Tommy Hilfiger have in common? Yes - they are entrepreneurs that created globally recognised brands. Whilst some stories are well known, such as Branson’s rise to the island-owning level of wealth he has achieved today, most people don’t know the smaller, untold stories. Did you know that Tommy Hilfiger started out by tailoring jeans he’d bought from local stores and selling them from the back of his car?
I had the privilege of conducting a workshop at the Australian AIESEC National Conference in July, and the theme of my workshop was entrepreneurship and the elevator pitch…
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Posted July 20th, 2010 By Samantha | 5 Comments |
Joined Meltwater in November 2007 after completing a fellowship at the International Radio and Television Society in New York. Samantha is now the Managing Director of Meltwater News in Boston.
Location: Boston, USA.
Education: BA with high honors in Philosophy, BA in Economics; Brandeis University.
Fanatical about: raveling, fine dining, fashion, yoga, general joie de vivre. |
Last week, the Meltwater management team met in San Francisco for our annual Executive Leadership Training through Oxford University.
Meltwater’s objective is to become one of the top 100 software companies in the world within the next five years. This is a pretty incredible goal, so Meltwater is investing in external training from some of the world’s most respected educational institutions to make sure that we are prepared for the challenges ahead of us.
A major focus of this particular session was the concept of how personality affects behavior, and how to make the most of each individual’s strengths and weaknesses.
We started by learning…
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Posted May 26th, 2010 By Guest Blogger | 3 Comments |
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Back in early May, three people from Meltwater Drive and Buzz attended a pub quiz at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Why you ask? Well, a couple of weeks ago I contacted a student project, known as FocusOn 2010. I am myself a former student of the university and also a former participant of the yearly project FocusOn. My goal was to create a partnership that generates awareness and a buzz about Meltwater at the university. The purpose is to of course market us and let driven students know that we are looking to hire talented, ambitious graduates.
FocusOn is…
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Posted April 30th, 2010 By Kimling | 2 Comments |
Former TV news reporter who made the jump to Corporate Communications at Meltwater.
Location: San Francisco CA
Education:
BA Philosophy, Wellesley College 2004
MS Broadcast Journalism, Boston University 2005
Fanatical about: Yoga, food, road cycling, great video production and swimming
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Yesterday evening Meltwater hosted the Meltwater Mashup, a social media meetup where experts from VentureBeat, PRSA, Bulldog Reporter and Tweetshare examined the integration of social media in Marketing and PR. Guests also had the chance to demo Meltwater Buzz, our social media monitoring product. It was a casual evening of drinking, chatting, and enjoying the gourmet delicacies offered by a taco truck.
Mashup guests mixed and mingled with social media and PR professionals from all over the Bay Area, including representatives from Linden Lab, Hill & Knowlton, Fleishman Hillard, StudioGood and eHealth, amongst others. One lucky winner won an iPad just for showing up!
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Posted April 28th, 2010 By Nora | 8 Comments |
Joined Meltwater in July 2005 in Berlin after working for publishing houses in Munich and New York. Nora is now part of the Corporate Communications team.
Education: BS in Business and Media Science, (BA Heidenheim) Germany
Location: Berlin
Fanatical about: Dancing, boxing, traveling, music
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In April this year Meltwater sponsored the German AIESEC National Kick-Off Conference in Bielefeld, Germany. Together with two recruitment managers, Kathrin Pamp and Navina Sharma, we gave a presentation on career opportunities at Meltwater Group as well as at our non-profit organization, Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana.
AIESEC is the world’s largest student-run organization – with over 45,000 members in 107 countries and territories. Their aim is to create a platform for young people to develop their leadership skills in a global learning environment- by offering international internships as well as leadership trainings.
Each year the AIESEC German leadership team invites more than…
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