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London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Managing global social media channels from Guinness World Records HQ, London, working with our digital and video team members to ensure that the most engaging content is shared with our audiences of 26M followers on Facebook, 4M Instagram followers, 14M TikTok followers and nurturing the development of other channels. Public speaker at UK events: Digital Marketing World Forum, Social Day, Children's Media Conference

London, United Kingdom

Managing global social media channels from Guinness World Records HQ, London, working with our digital team to ensure that the most engaging content is shared with our audiences of 16M followers on Facebook, 3.3M Instagram followers, 2M Snapchat Discover subscribers, 3M TikTok followers and nurturing the development of other channels inc. Twitter, Popjam and Pinterest.Responding to our communities and followers, reporting on brand reputation and crisis management. Managing our relationships with representatives from social networks and creating development strategy for all territories. Training members of staff in GWR social media best practice and developing social media policy. Communicating daily with records managers, PR, marketing and B2B colleagues in London and our representatives around the world and offices in New York, Beijing, Tokyo and Dubai - reporting weekly to all staff globally on our latest wins and challenges. Co-presenter on weekly YouTube show Guinness World Records Spotlight.Developing LinkedIn strategy for our B2B teams, coordinating with Marketing and PR teams for key selling periods of book launches and TV events and with Attractions development team for upcoming projects with Ripley's Entertainment.

London, United Kingdom

Managing global social media channels from Guinness World Records HQ, London, ensuring that the most engaging and shareable record-breaking content is shared with our audiences, growing our fanbase from 1.5 to 9.5 million fans on Facebook, growing our Google+ page from zero to 1.4 million and managing a community of millions of viewers/subscribers on YouTube. Responding to our followers on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Communicating daily with records managers, PR, marketing and B2B colleagues in London and our representatives around the world and offices in New York, Beijing, Tokyo and Dubai. Regular editorial contributor and co-presenter on weekly YouTube show Guinness World Records Spotlight.

London, United Kingdom

Managing social media for the UK’s longest running free magazine, est. 1983, conveying the public personality of the brand online as an extension of the print version of TNT magazine.Increasing TNT Magazine’s Twitter and Facebook influence and followers as well as initiating and growing TNT’s Google+ page - building a following of nearly 90,000, by promoting original content from the magazine, website, events and building mutually beneficial relationships with advertising clients.Writing daily SEO-friendly news stories for tntmagazine.com, sourcing news material for the editorial team and regular food and travel features for TNT magazine, pitching ideas for features at fortnightly editorial meetings, with a solid understanding of the TNT audience.Working alongside the Web Editor, trebled monthly unique visitors with dwell time up by 50%. 450,000 UVs & 750,000 page views per month.Promoting bi-annual consumer youth travel event TNT Travel Show, held at Earls Court & The BDC Exhibition Venue, Islington, through TNT’s social networks and attended by thousands of predominantly Antipodean 18-35 year olds, the brand's key demographic.Promoting TNT’s products, services and events by working alongside Marketing and sales personnel.Working with the web editor and head of digital to update, maintain and build the profile of tntmagazine.com and myTNT social network/blogging platform, building relationships with professional and non-professional bloggers, promoting their content to build the network. Regular editorial created for B2B website Backpacker Trade News and promotion of UK travel awards event The Golden Backpack Awards.Liasing with programmers both internal and external to create an optimum user experience and training editorial staff and interns in the website’s CMS, as well as SEO techniques, editorial tone and social media best practice.

Covent Garden, London

Working for The Hospital Club, a private members club and multimedia hub founded for the creative/media industries by entrepreneur Paul Allen’s Vulcan group. Facilities include an HD/SD TV Studio, music recording studio, cinema/screening room, bars, restaurants, gallery, various function spaces and external events servicesI initiated Twitter and Facebook pages for The Hospital Club, managed online PR monitoring, and maintained social networking covering all aspects of online communications strategies. I also maintained the corporate side of the website and updated all events and film related content on our social network working alongside the Online Development manger.My job also involved coordinating advertising campaigns and B2B comms for The Hospital Club's TV Studios, creating and designing HTML comms for upcoming events, and overseeing live music events (The Mercury Prize Sessions music/spoken word event OneTaste), technology/networking seminars And Then The World Presents (technology & innovations) and Creative Capital networking events.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

- Presenting regular live radio shows at 2CR FM (The Album Chart Show and Sunday Morning Hitline) including taking calls from listeners for requests and competitions, editing sound-bites, coordinating adverts, back-timing for news breaks, audience discussions and all remaining aspects of a live broadcast.- Coordinating live broadcasts from the studio, playing out music, advertising and news within very strict time structures. - Liaising with DJs and co-presenters in various locations for outside broadcasts during live shows. - Editing together records of transmission from previous broadcasts for advertising clients of the station.

- Working in a management role for a major publisher dealing with trade and commercial B2B magazines including Exchange & Mart, Trader, Daltons Weekly, Private Villas and many more- Coordinating workload to ensure all advertisements were received into the department on deadline and distributed to staff. Constantly managed work flow in a growing and expanding department - Successfully supervised a team working to strict publishing deadlines, regularly training staff in Quark Express and Photoshop techniques- Key member of Production department; facilitating advertisement design, proofreading, and typesetting for a range of publications produced by UAP