Ben Fawkes
English literature graduate (2005). Experienced in marketing and consulting in the online and e-business world. Love football, music, snowboarding, the internet and travel. Currently working as Audio Content Manager for SoundCloud.com. So if you are interested in talking audio, let me know!
Co-founder of FootballFilter, a one stop site for all the best football sources.
If you are looking to make something similar to FootballFilter you can find more details at DataFilter.
Future projects/ideas can be found on playground site NewsFilter.
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- Experience
- Oct 2010 - PresentAudio Content Manager / SoundCloudBusiness development for audio content. Developing SoundCloud's use base in the audio/spoken word market and the various audio industries within that.
- Nov 2009 - PresentCo - Founder / DataFilterCollaboratively collect, curate and share web data such as video, audio, images, and text. Project in on going development. But if you like football, check out FootballFilter.com for a demo of where we are at the moment - massive developments on the way in 2011. DataFilter was one of the 20 companies to present at SeedCamp Berlin 2010.
- Jan 2008 - Nov 2009Product Manager Life Cycle Management / Endress+Hauser Instruments InternationalProduct manager for life cycle management department for Endress+Hauser - a process automation company. Life Cycle Management (or e-business) was a primary strategy for all Endress+Hauser sales centres in all countries. We offered asset management software, documentation management software and an online shop. It was my responsibility to help roll out these tools and platforms to sales centres world wide. The aim was to train and introduce these topics to each country's sale centre so that they could then take on the responsibility themselves. I would visit a sales centre, introduce the topics and then train them on the marketing and administration side of the tools. We would then visit customers, investigate the market interest in these tools and how it applied for their country. Once trained and comfortable selling and administrating the platforms, we took on more of a support role remotely from the Basel office. Countries I managed: South Africa U.S.A Denmark, Sweden, Norway Holland U.K South Korea China Italy
- Nov 2007 - Dec 2008Junior Consulting Manager / Endress and HauserJunior consulting manager for the e business department dealing with online commerce, e procurement and life cycle management
- 2005 - 2007Marketing Assistant / OnExamination.comMarketing assistant for a medical education company. Main taks involved researching exams, competition, schools, universities, industry relevant magazines etc, and also responsible for rolling out marketing campaigns and day to day communication with our customers and the universities/institutions that they belonged to.
Education-
2002 - 2005Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd2:1 in English Lit
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1997 - 2002International School of BaselInternational Baccalaureate - 33 points
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Honors:My company, DataFilter, was one of the contestants at SeedCamp Berlin 2010.
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Interests:Football, snowboarding, photography, golf, squash, music, film, books, the internet.
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Tweets
- I don't care if they weren't the better team, Chelsea still deserved it. Last chance to get the champs league for a lot of those players....May 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @ntljk @ejcoombe @iamseams @katieneeds fair enough, already made zis plan unforts. Come on football, do a goal.
- @ntljk @iamseams @ejcoombe @katieneeds oh well theres a screen being set up outside prince charles,so i think i am going there!BBQ there too
- @jiggabits nice meeting you too!
- @yaykitteh leaving tomorrow. All will be better.
- @torrauden @elinaram still needs an android version dude! Get busy.
- @yaykitteh how is it without me? I am missing a public holiday!
- @ntljk haha ok. I thought u were a fan.
- @ntljk jared is here. Check my instagram.
- @darrensummers and its you're. Not your. Get it right.
- @darrensummers thanks babes. I know I am.
- May 11, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @JohannaKnutsson gonna be here another week now I think!
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SoundCloud Voices this week features sport podcasts and sport teams using the platform. Like Chelsea FC, James Allen’s F1 podcast and the Golden State Warriors. Take a listen to the Warriors latest podcast and listen to more on the blog!
SoundCloud Voices this week features some radio producers and their side projects. For example Jody Avirgan who has started a show called Ask Roulette. A live event where you bring a question to ask a random person. People then are randomly called up to ask and receive questions, while Jody records the whole process. It’s very entertaining! Take a listen on the blog for more on Jody and our other voices members Scott Bliss and Gerry Hadden.
I don’t like Tyler the Creator or Odd Future, why? Because the beats are bad and the lyrics are just ok. There seems to have been a big fuss about this BBC news night piece about them, pointing out how old fashioned the coverage is. What did you expect? Sure they pick up on silly things like them saying they don’t pay taxes, but personally, they are picking up on that because there is very little else to talk about here. Odd Future are not very good. They have lyrics that middle aged people don’t like and they give away their records but pay a lot for merch. What else is there to say about them. Compare em to Wu Tang and you’ll see my point. They are one dimensional.
Barça’s 30 passes.
The day after we had a decent discussion focusing on possession not always leading to substance, Barcelona exhibited exactly how you can pass a team to death, and complete such exquisite sequences with an end product. The blaugrana were in great form when they traveled to Zaragoza, gliding to a 4-1 victory. But the 4th goal was yet another lesson for us all to learn from.
Of course, most teams cannot replicate how Thiago (his pass was the true catalyst), Pedro, and Messi combined to create the goal, but 30 passes strung together serve as an excellent example of tiki-taka’s potential effectiveness even when being implemented against a well-disciplined opponent. [AFR on Twitter/FB]
There are two great podcasts on SoundCloud who are both running audio competitions at the moment. Pulse of the Planet are looking for your ‘Signature’ Sounds’ - submit using their drop box your sounds of the planet. And there’s still a month left on the Third Coast Festival’s Short Documentary Competition! Read more about the podcast and the competitions on the blog.
In the mean time take a listen to Pulse of the Planet’s 5000th anniversary podcast here.
This is a worthy project!
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
1. Build a national correspondent network of South African youth radio journalists who broadcast, collaborate, and share content across radio stations.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
1. This new model integrates pre-existing audio platforms (SoundCloud, VoIP Drupal, Hindenberg audio editing software) to enable community-based youth radio reporters to produce and distribute well-informed news content aimed at youth.
Voices this week takes a look at some American Public radio stations using SoundCloud. This includes American Public Media’s The Dinner Party Download (which is awesome), NPR’s Science Friday and San Francisco station KQED! Take a listen to an excerpt from a recent Dinner Party show and listen to more on the blog!
Anthony Shadid, a brilliant journalist who dedicated his career to covering the events in the Middle East sadly passed last week, while in Syria, from an asthma attack. Today SoundCloud Voices takes a look at some of the new organisations who have paid tribute to him posting various recordings of the man himself and recollection from colleagues. Democracy Now, ICFJ and KCRW are our featured users over on the blog.
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