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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- Oct 2010 - PresentAudio Content Manager / SoundCloud
Business development for audio content. Developing partnerships for the audio/spoken word market for SoundCloud.com.
Radio
Audio Books
Journalism
Podcasts
Comedy
Universities/Education
And more!Also responsible for content marketing and developing communications, guides and support for our partners.
In the spoken word world I have developed content relationships for SoundCloud with the likes of The Economist, BBC, Guardian, Al Jazeera, Smodcast, Harper Collins, Penguin, Random House, Macmillan, Hachette, Faber, Simon&Schuster, The Bugle, The Times, Telegraph, Empire Magazine, Corus Radio, Astral Radio, Radio France, 90 Elf, Richard Herring, Russell Brand, The New Yorker, DWissen, Deutsche Welle, CBC, SBS Australia, ABC Australia, Radiolab, RTE, ARTE, UCL, Cambridge University, LSE, This is Global and many more.
- Nov 2009 - PresentCo - Founder / DataFilter
Collaboratively 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.
DataFilter was one of the 20 companies to present at SeedCamp Berlin 2010.
- Jan 2008 - Nov 2009Product Manager Life Cycle Management / Endress+Hauser Instruments International
Product 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 Hauser
Junior consulting manager for the e business department dealing with online commerce, e procurement and life cycle management
- 2005 - 2007Marketing Assistant / OnExamination.com
Marketing 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
- Crazy stuff in London https://t.co/Ub6kMzaUflMay 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @ProjectMatt HASHTAG FUN TIMES
- RT @StandUpRecords: A little sample of the new @dannylobell CD. Give it a listen. https://t.co/OmCsvlv3EaMay 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @StandUpRecords: We've been posting some stuff on our @SoundCloud profile. Check it out. http://t.co/OUfYKyHOQdMay 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @stph_lng have you ever seen this before? https://t.co/8gvOdtOqZI 40 seconds in and 2 mins ish in.
- For more mind blown, read this http://t.co/ZAEx5K1GggMay 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Holy shit, just discovered one of Robson and Jerome is in Game of Thrones. What is bloody going on.May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- #eurovision brap brap
- @Sean_Rasmussen cold straight bad wack
- @21stCenturyGent totes babes, totes. Congrats by the way you old dog you!
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- 28 tracks (16:44:41)Talk Sport, Reboot.fm interview with Sven Marquardt, Smodcast, comedy from Eddie Izzard and Dan Cummins, Russell Brand's old radio show, lots of talk about Lance Armstrong, great Big Boi interview from CNN, ABC Radio National and The Guardian to name some in this set. Enjoy.
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My new place.
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This week SoundCloud Voices would like to welcome the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast to SoundCloud. For all things tech based, you know where to listen.
Me in an infomercial in Jinan China back in 2005. I was a scientist for a device that supposedly helped you go to sleep.
- Some great spoken word from 2012
And some great spoken word audio on SoundCloud in 2012 too…this also took me bloody ages….unfortunately I can’t embed it as some track in there has been disabled for widget embedding…..argghhhhh….
So enjoy https://soundcloud.com/benfawkes/sets/favourites-of-2012
- My top tracks from 2012
Or rather some of the best tracks I can find and think are from 2012…..enjoy, it took my bloody ages.
CONGRATS AUNT AMY! My aunt’s short children’s story was the first of six to win the audiobook competition held by Gatwick Airport in London! YAY! Take a listen!
I have been in Edinburgh for the past three days covering the Fringe Festival for SoundCloud.
Last night I met a king.
SoundClouder of the Day = Joffrey Baratheon aka Jack Gleason.
King of the ‘Cloud.
SoundCloud Voices this week takes a look at two great podcasts from ABC Australia Radio. The great Dr Karl and Sunday Night Safran are now on SoundCloud! Follow them, listen to them and get commenting! More over at the blog, but take a listen to a podcast from Safran here!
Another break through for spoken word on SoundCloud - ABC Australia’s best podcasts now on the cloud!
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.
- soundcloud: This week SoundCloud Voices would like to welcome the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast to SoundCloud. For all things tech based, you know where to listen.
(No streaming audio available)863 plays - theoriginalmalia: CONGRATS AUNT AMY! My aunt’s short children’s story was the first of six to win the audiobook competition held by Gatwick Airport in London! YAY! Take a listen!
(No streaming audio available)244 plays - soundcloud: SoundCloud Voices this week takes a look at two great podcasts from ABC Australia Radio. The great Dr Karl and Sunday Night Safran are now on SoundCloud! Follow them, listen to them and get commenting! More over at the blog, but take a listen to a podcast from Safran here! Another break through for spoken word on SoundCloud - ABC Australia’s best podcasts now on the cloud!
(No streaming audio available)1939 plays - soundcloud: 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!
(No streaming audio available)1406 plays - DVS1 - Addicted Podcast #6This is slightly very good.
(No streaming audio available)5224 plays - kcrw: KCRW listener, Eve Fouche remembers the LA Riots.
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(No streaming audio available)223924 plays - soundcloud: 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.
(No streaming audio available)811 plays - soundcloud: 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.
(No streaming audio available)5454 plays - soundcloud: 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!
(No streaming audio available)7751 plays - soundcloud: 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.
(No streaming audio available)3060 plays - soundcloud: SoundCloud Voices this week takes a look at two great interview podcasts, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn and The Gentlemens Club with Caleb Bacon. They are both great, regularly featuring interesting guests. Take a listen here and for more over on the blog.
(No streaming audio available)2726 plays - soundcloud: This weeks SoundCloud Voices takes a look at some great spoken word from San Francisco. This included Sonic SF who are developing a ‘new breed of radio’ and need your help! Take a listen to an example their new type of ‘reality news’ here and pass by their Kickstarter page for more info and where you can help with funding this great project! More info over on the blog too.
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(No streaming audio available)517 plays - With the risk of djinxing it #rain at forss place AudioJedit Remix! | Ben Fawkes Uploaded a new track, check it out
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