Paris, France: Long weekend spent visiting the Louvre, the top of the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffle Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Monet’s beautiful paintings at the l’Orangerie Museum, Galeries Lafayette…best macaroons ever, & the finale with a boat dinner cruise on the Seine River…great weekend with my Mom!
Beautiful day spent at the Cambridge Botanic Gardens!
Day trip to Beachy Head & Brighton: beautiful sun, chalk cliffs, rolling hills, arcade piers, extravagant palaces & “bohemian” shopping
Rugby Seven in London: Safari themed international ruby tournament = beer and semi-adults in onesies!
Brussels, Belgium: First weekend in Europe and I’ve already made a last minute trip to Brussels! Best Belgium waffles I have ever had, to die for chocolate, the beer is everything it is cracked up to be, Magritte Museum is definitely a “must see”…all within a beautiful eclectic city.
Spending the next 6 month is Cambridge…looking forward to more world adventures and summer in this beautiful city!
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PR Week has compiled the FTSE 100 social media index - looking at how prominently listed companies are using social media to communicate and engage with their target audiences. ARM ranks #5 overall, ahead of Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever, Vodafone, GlaxoSmithKline to name a few. More specifically, ARM ranks #2 in the use of blogs, #3 on YouTube and #10 in the usage of Twitter.
ARM’s Social Media is featured as a Case Study in The Social Media MBA by Christer Holloman!
The beginning of my journey that lead me to become a social media enthusiast from a wide-eyed college student.
A piece of white paper with the words “What is Facebook?” lay on my desk, those few words are what started my journey in social media. As a new intern in 2007, I was tasked with diving into the unknown world of social media and determining if there was a place for ARM within it. With the support of my “Rogue Leaders”, we not only determine this was an opportunity ARM could not miss out on, but a pathway to reaching audiences and markets we never dreamed of.
Did I mention I was a “trip”? That’s right my internship was funded out of excess travel budget…so for the price of my summer’s work, we could have sent someone to England and back…or that’s the terms we like to joke about it in. The initial appeal of social media was always, “well it’s free”…so why not try it. In the reality of today, social media has grown far beyond individual’s posting their whereabouts, but to interactive and expansive networks of resources, accredited and “street”-credited.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I could build a career around social media, but boy was I wrong! After a little more than 3 years at ARM, we now have over 10 Twitter handles with 17,000+ followers, 5 blog communities with 2.6 Million+ views, a YouTube channel (ARMflix) with 5 million+ views, a Facebook page with 4,000+ fans, a LinkedIn group (ARM Based Group) primarily run and monitored by its 8,000+ group members. Not to mention we are starting to look into social media channels in China: Sina Weibo (Twitter equivalent) and YouKu (YouTube equivalent).
I am proud to say that I actually enjoy my work and I am happy to be a part of a team (and company) that is forward thing and open minded to allow social media to take an influential part in their media strategies. I look forward to what is to come in the future and the endless possible social media is capable of.
To find out more about where to find ARM on social media, click here.
Rogue Pirates!
