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BUZZFEED
- I currently work in New York City at BuzzFeed.com as a senior creative specialist.In creative, we work with advertisers to help them avoid the horrific, ineffective mess that is the traditional banner ad. Instead, we write customized content that mixes the voice of the advertiser's campaign and product with the wit and "Internet savviness" of BuzzFeed—trying to make content that's distinctly shareable and not just based on how many clicks it'll get on our own site.
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I have wanted to work in business ever since I was a kid. I created an imaginary Fortune 500 company when I was in fourth grade, and made my friends its executives. This ideal has been interwoven throughout my life ever since.
When I was a sophomore in high school, I started selling items on eBay that my family no longer wanted, and eventually expanded out to friends, their parents, their friends, until I had a full-fledged business working with dozens of clients. Originally registered as Kitsap Krap, then FJELauctions, and finally Auctions-on-Hudson, this entrepreneurial endeavor sustained me for most of my adolescence.
Kitsap Krap has taught me how to interact with people professionally and manage clients, methods of generating profits, calculating taxes, and advertising. I try to apply this experience to whatever task I may be faced with in business.
Specialties: social media, management, advertising, blogging, working with people, generating viral content, editorial work, viral marketingExperience- Sept 2011 - PresentCreative Lead / BuzzFeed
After working as an editorial intern for the summer, I was promoted to a full-time editor, then moved over to creative. In May, I was promoted to Senior Copywriter, and in January, 2013 I was made a Creative Lead. I work with clients on numerous campaigns--from TV shows to shaving cream--to generate original, branded posts for them.
- Jun 2011 - Aug 2011Editorial Intern / BuzzFeed
Discover, edit, and queue user-created posts, working to find or create the next "viral sensation." Also create my own new and unique posts and content for the site. For examples of my work, visit my profile at http://www.buzzfeed.com/fjelstud.
- Jun 2009 - Aug 2011Intern / Idealab
From June through December, 2009, I worked under the New Ventures Group at Idealab as a development intern for one of their new projects, Tools.com. My primary responsibilities were setting up the items database, contacting potential partners and affiliates, identifying and implementing keywords to maximize SEO, as well as promoting Tools.com on related industry websites and blogs.
The summer of 2010 I returned to Idealab and helped manage the expansion of Idealab's official Twitter account, manage Tools.com's blog, develop keywords and bios for people and organizations on TweetUp/PostUp (now part of UberMedia), and various other research-oriented projects.
- Jun 2005 - May 2011Owner / Auctions-on-Hudson
In the summer of 2005 I sought a way to earn my own money while earning real work experience and managing a business. I first opened Auctions-on-Hudson under the name "Kitsap Krap Auctions," a registered business in my home state of Washington. "Auctions-on-Hudson," was the retitled version once I moved to upstate New York for school. A-o-H functions through eBay, where I list items for clients and take a commission based on successful sales.
- Aug 2008 - Jan 2009Intern / National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)
As a development associate for NFFTY, I primarily called various companies to pitch to their marketers about the festival. I also pitched this unique film festival to a number of film schools (seeking students to submit their projects), including UCLA and USC.
Education-
2007 - 2011Bard CollegeBachelor's in History
Activities: Socially Responsible Investing Committee, Student Representative to the Board of Trustees
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Interests:business management, tech and internet startups, entrepreneurship, european history, british history, political science, sociology, international relations, internet, viral media, new media
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EBAY
- Originally started as "Kitsap Krap," a name based on the county my hometown is in and the kind of items I began the business with (leftovers from a family garage sale), eBay has been a significant part of my life since I was just fifteen. Through the various incarnations of the business, I was able to generate my own money while self-employed during my high school and early college years.Today known as "Auctions-on-Hudson" (another gimmicky name based on my college's town), eBay has taken a backseat to my work with startups, but its influence plays into my daily work ethic. It gave me my first experience administering a business, advertising and promoting, developing and managing a website, catering to clients' requests, handling others' money, and of course, managing the bottom line. With a positive feedback rate of more than 98% and over 1400 individual sales, my success speaks for itself.
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Tweets
- Who shot the goats?
- @hjoneslawrence @andrea_h1ckey yeah prob mainly bc it came out like 20 years ago
- "Have you heard about 'Myst,' the game?" @andrea_h1ckey to me, right now, in 2013
- @rilaws ;)
- help. ryan gosling is watching me http://t.co/RZ8NiZkXOX
- @pilotbacon spotify premium changed my life
- RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: It says something that when DOMA was passed the House Speaker was cheating on his 2nd wife and the President was doi ...
- @bobbyfinger @manymanywords "she ordered a coffee and a soda and sipped both simultaneously" this is so fucked up
- RT @Horse_ebooks: you ll finally start rolling in the cash---BIG BOY
- @jessmisener i wouldn't give that away for free
- @BAFeldman I think this is @bobbyfinger's dream
- @bobbyfinger no
- is bill o'reilly gay
- RT @heySMM: if you’re tempted to thank SCOTUS for today’s ruling, remember that someone who stops punching you isn’t doing you some big ...
- @hjoneslawrence "homosexual" (and "heterosexual") are such scientific words that it sounds so impersonal and removed
- I get really uncomfortable when people use "homosexual" seriously because it makes them sound like a scientist. And they're definitely not.
- @BAFeldman someday, I will buy the "Pokémon with You Wagon" and it will be my home
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Posts
david karp sold tumblr to yahoo for a large sum of money so he could then spend that money on getting every copy of this picture deleted from the internet forever
omfg i’m crying at the latest episode of Got because daenerys is listening to this guy and she’s so tired of his bullshit and she looks directly at the camera like she’s in an Office episode
- What if Yahoo launches Tumblr Answers?
Seventy-seven percent of men ages 18 to 34 said they would cheat, whereas only 57 percent of women that age said they would. As for people actually in relationships (not all of the men and women were), 51 percent of committed adults said they had or would commit Netflix adultery, if the moment was right and Netflix was looking particularly foxy that night.
Cayucas, Cayucos
Put this in yr summertime peace pipe and surf it. These dudes are proof that sometimes good things can come out of Santa Monica! A perfect BBQ breeze to ease you into this heat, hitting those 60s beach vibes with a twist that doesn’t feel stale or trampled on.
Every single song this band have released sounds exactly like what “summer” sounds like.
Through its use of characters, garbage falling from the sky all the time, and black people constantly playing the trumpet on a fire escape, ‘The Great Gatsby’ is truly a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald about how you shouldn’t just buy a castle near your ex-girlfriend in the 1920s and then wait for her to fall back in love with you, because eventually you might get murdered by a poor person.
A Great Gatsby Book Report by a Kid Who Only Saw the Movie | Jordan Asher Major Brogan III (age 16)WASHINGTON—The current session of the 111th Cat Congress was once again suspended Tuesday following the sudden introduction of a sunbeam onto the Senate floor, a development that has left a majority of transfixed lawmakers unable to move forward.
Cat Congress Mired in Sunbeam | The Onion
- speriod: servingreelness: Ben & David kick off the first episode of Serving Reelness by reviewing two gay paragons of Netflix Instant Streaming: Judas Kiss and Bear City. Subscribe & Rate in iTunes Subscribe via RSS More from Ben More from David Two funny people doing a funny podcast. Reblog if you want to live forever. This is very, very good. Also I want to live forever.
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(No streaming audio available)0 plays- I will never get over the end of this song. The line, “Now Roman in the kitchen told me that ‘true love it waits,’ but of all the rules he lives by, that’s the one that he hates.” It’s just. Perfect.
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