Monthly Archives: October 2009

You’ve heard about it for months. Maybe you’ve been sick or know someone who has.

This morning, the medical software company Cerner Corp. announced its Flu Pandemic Initiative with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The federal government and Cerner Corp. have teamed up to use Cerner’s newly developed medical software system to help track “hot spots” of swine flu outbreaks in order to forecast future developments.

Due to the timeliness of this article, Meltwater thought it would be interesting to run a retroactive report, using Meltwater News, to show the Swine Flu…

In 2008, 210 billion emails were sent. Daily. Beyond just receiving far too many emails, I find myself dreading the idea of reading long emails. And, after reading, I often come out confused (probably because I skipped straight to chapter 3). With today’s reliance on writing and reading emails, it’s critical to write effective emails.

Good emails should be informative, concise, and actionable. Unless the email is a quick FYI, here are some simple guidelines I try to follow:

1. Write a clear and descriptive subject
Make sure the reader knows what to expect before reading your email. If your reader has a lot of…

In this middle of the workday this week, one of our friendly finance guys started joking around and I caught it on camera.

This is a perfect example of how some Meltwater employees inject some fun into their busy days. We’ve titled this clip “Nerd Love, Vol. 1″. Consider it our ode to the classic movie, Revenge of the Nerds.