When I started working for be2, it was but a blip on the radar of the online matchmaking market. Three years, and numerous changes of my job definition, later, be2 is the fastest-growing company in its sector and spouting success stories like they’re going out of fashion.
As online editor, I contribute all kinds of copy to the website, as well as email and online marketing, but the corporate blog has become my pet project. I get to research, write and post pretty much anything I deem of interest and relevant to our readers. Building this kind of a project from scratch with a really small, enthusiastic team, making it up as we go along, is a journalist’s dream come true. Add to that the flexible working hours and informal work style and I’ve got myself a match made in heaven.
Oh, I do all that stuff in English, too.
(read both corporate blog feeds in the right hand column)
Fiona, August 14th 2008 |
Tags: be2, blog feed, corporate blog, ladymags, marketing, online copywriting, places I've worked, SEO, work experience
Posted in history of the gab
For three months after Uni I had the coolest postgrad job in the universe. (even better than this one)
Prove it, you say?
My internship in the US correspondents’ office of German publishing company Burda was not only interesting, varied and insightful, it was also in New York.
I went to work here every day for three months:
I rest my case.
Fiona, August 2nd 2008 |
Tags: celebrity magazines, fashion journalism, news magazines, places I've worked, work abroad, work experience
Posted in history of the gab
In Munich, interviewing Bands usually meant traipsing to a horribly overpriced, overdecorated hotel, for a 15-Minute interview slot with a publicist peering over my shoulder.
In Dublin, it meant interviewing a bunch of really nice guys at their local pub for a national music magazine.
Fiona, May 26th 2008 |
Tags: interviews, music journalism, places I've worked, published work, things I've done, work experience
Posted in history of the gab
My first job, straight out of school, was in PR. As jobs in PR go, it was pretty fantastic.
Munich Agency Eastside was still very young and small at the time, so the hierarchies were flat (VERY flat) and instead of making coffee and and stapling press packs, I got to write and translate press releases, select press samples and present our clients’ collections at trade fairs.
I did rather well, paving the way for a great career in PR I didn’t want.
No other PR job has ever lived up to the high expectations set up by my first baby steps in the working world.
Fiona, April 25th 2008 |
Tags: copywriting, places I've worked, PR, press release, things I've done, work experience
Posted in history of the gab
When I started working for be2, it was but a blip on the radar of the online matchmaking market. Three years, and numerous changes of my job definition, later, be2 is the fastest-growing company in its sector and spouting success stories like they’re going out of fashion.
