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Are you currently studying?

Yes

What college or university are you studying at?

UWS

What digital discipline are you specialising in?

Master Convergent Media

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http://www.masterofconvergence.com

About Me

I've a career in Advertising and Marketing with retail and consumer goods which led onto Licensing of Trade Marks and Copyrights into consumer product markets. I had an adventure in the 'dot com' era of the late 90s. Now I'm doing a Masters in Convergent Media because as a brand marketer I need to know how to use the options.

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CBS Trying to Get People talking

Sometimes you wonder what goes on in board rooms.....here's an article about our Host CBS trying to get people talking about the shows on their network in the USA....but without brand specific focue....surely web2 and beyond is about allowing people to find their way....force feeding a particular direction of conversation is, I think, unlikely to gain traction.

I can understand a community building around a particular Interest, Occupation, TV show, branded product or service but (If I'm reading… Continue

Posted on October 22, 2008 at 11:28am —

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IT Intern

It has been over 3 years now (June 05) since I joined as an intern working in the CBS Interactive tech team. I was still a university student at that stage, in my 4th year studying Computer Systems Engineering at UTS. The role enabled me to gain valuable insight into the corporate-nature of technology - its applications and challenges for the company, and how I, as an engineer fit in to the equation.

My work at the time involved system administration tasks for the servers and systems in place i… Continue

Posted by James Ho on October 8, 2008 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Working at CBS

Working for CBS Interactive has been great fun! I joined in March 2007 as a Junior Video Editor after finishing my Diploma in Digital Media.

Since then I have had the privilege on going on fun and exciting location shoots, editing creative and educational videos, traveling around Australia and meeting up with Celebrities.

Recently I got promoted as a Video Producer and now have a great team under me that I help manage and drive as the Video Team. I wouldn’t trade my job with anything else!

CB… Continue

Posted by Farha Millington-Hussain on October 7, 2008 at 4:31pm — 2 Comments

CBS Interactive

I first started working for CBS Interactive back in June 07 as an intern for GameSpot. When I grew up I loved playing computer games so naturally when I heard the opportunity to work for a gaming website I jumped at it. I was developing my writing skills by reviewing games as well as updating and publishing stories on CNET.

At the end of my internship an opportunity came up to work as an assistant in the ad operations department full time. Having no clue what ad operations did or that they even… Continue