Category Archives: Meltwater Culture

Have a safe and fantastic Halloween!

Sincerely,
Your friends at Meltwater

I left Meltwater in April 2006 when I was at a peak in my Meltwater career. I was 28-years old and during the 18 months prior to leaving, Meltwater had lived up to all its promises; I had been given opportunities and responsibilities that oftentimes take years to obtain elsewhere. I had hit all my sales targets, established one office from scratch, managed the Stockholm office and was even promoted to a partner in the company.

In 2006, Meltwater’s management structure was quite flat. As I climbed my way up through the ranks, I wanted to continue getting more responsibility, but at…

For the past week, the story of little Falcon Heene floating through the Colorado skies in a homemade balloon and the subsequent fallout from this alleged ‘hoax’ has been at the top of the headlines and Google searches.

Meltwater News ran an analysis of the “Balloon Boy” coverage in U.S. online media vs. International media over the last week.

Check out the global number of hits on the graphs below. The hits spiked on October 19, the day after the story was announced as a hoax. It seems obvious that this story would be heavily covered in the U.S., but it’s also interesting to see…

Last Friday we featured the debut of Meltwater colleagues Nick and Dan in Nerd Love, Vol. 1.

The saga continues today in Nerd Love, Vol. 2. Nick gets a new haircut and increases his street cred.

Enjoy the weekend, everybody!

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…