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TEDxAmsterdam is looking for interns!

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
TEDxAmsterdam team on stage

TEDxAmsterdam team on stage

Are you a great writer? Are you finishing your degree and keen to get some real working experience? Are you fluent in English and Dutch? Are you able to work hard, independently and with lots of dedication, and are you a big fan of TED.com and TEDxAmsterdam?  We need you!

TEDxAmsterdam is a one day event that will take place for the second time in November 2010. The event is organised by a small team of professionals supported by a wide network of volunteers and partners.

Students finishing their bachelor’s or associate degree in communications, advertising, marketing, graphics, interactive media or any other wild and wonderful studies are invited to send in their resume. We offer a three month (or longer) internship based in central Amsterdam (Duintjes VS Vijzelstraat), where you will be working closely with the TEdxAmsterdam team. We are specifically looking for someone with excellent writing skills (ideally an English native speaker), who has some experience in copy editing, blogging, and making use of social media.

What do we expect from you?

  • Write copy for press releases, reports, minutes, brochures etc
  • Blog on TEDxAmsterdam.nl
  • Create content for feeds and snippets in various social media sites
  • Be the eyes and ears of TEDxAmsterdam as if your own reputation depended on it
  • Research, build and maintain our content distribution network by way of social media channels
  • Daily participation in conversations that surround our content and brand, answer comments, be a mediator.
  • Assistance with general project management for TEDxAmsterdam (writing minutes, planning meetings etc)

What do we offer?

  • Dutch internship standard renumeration
  • Chance to be part of a small and dedicated team of professionals
  • Possibility to do a graduation research project at TEDxAmsterdam
  • Access to TEDxAmsterdam (November 2010)

The deadline for application is February 1, 2010. Interns will be notified of their selection no later than February 15, 2010. Applicants should e-mail their resume to: Marian Spier Email: marian@tedxamsterdam.nl

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Vincent Lüning

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

What is your TEDx job?
Sponsoring

Vincent

Your Favorite TEDtalk?
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html

What would you speak about during your 3 minute TEDx Talk?
Irrationality, randomness and financial markets

Come up with five keyword that define you
Impact, ideas, diversity, intuition, analysis

More about Vincent
Facebook
LinkedIn

Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. cc: by-sa

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Eiso Vaandrager

Friday, November 6th, 2009

What is your TEDx job?
Helping with the speakers and guest list.

Eiso Vaandrager

Your Favorite TEDtalk?

Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything


 

What would you speak about during your 3 minute TEDx Talk?
I would speak about passion, taking risks and about giving young people the opportunity to save their world. I see the creation of networks of do’ers, who work with passion and come up with positive, innovative solutions for our energy demands, electric transportation, care and poverty. It will be young entrepreneurs that drive these innovations, not large companies or governments. I would like to talk about ways of releasing this power to the world. 

Come up with five keyword that define you
Optimistic, Father and Social.

More about Eiso
Facebook
LinkedIn
Twitter

Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. cc: by-sa

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Xander Kranenburg

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

What is your TEDx job?
Head of production – I have the honor of making sure that TEDx Amsterdam gets tied together smoothly (the logistics during the day and most importantly that what will happen on stage).

Xander

Your favorite TEDtalk?
Dan Gilbert asks Why are we happy?

Always brings a smile on my face. Dan Gilbert demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy. His talk has a wonderful balance of humor and insight.

What would you speak about during your 3 minute TEDx Talk?
Presentation skills – how the right combination of visuals and spoken word can emphasis the strength of any message.

Come up with five keywords that define you
Open, Cheerful, Driven, Focussed and ‘No worries’

More about Xander Kranenburg
On Linkedin and on Live solutions.

Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. cc: by-sa

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Monique van Dusseldorp

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Program director Monique van Dusseldorp talks about what she found in the newspaper this morning. Also she tells us about the thrilling job of putting together the right speakers for the TEDxAmsterdam program.

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Anne Cramwinckel

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

What is your TEDx job?
Speaker liaison

Anne Cramwinckel

Your Favourite TEDtalk?

What would you speak about during your 3 minute TEDx Talk?
The power of working together with different interests, expertise and backgrounds.

Come up with five keywords that define you
Outgoing, determined, naive, intelligent & sweet

More info about Anne
Linkedin

Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. cc: by-sa

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Randolph Plomp

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

What is your TEDx job?
Responsible for managing the technical part of the website and registration form.

Your Favorite TEDtalk?
David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called “grunge” era. I love to use this while designing for the web.

What would you speak about during your 3 minute TEDx Talk?
How making music, designs or combining those two can be a drug. I wanna be an addict for the rest of my life.

Come up with five keywords that define you
Designer, musician, dreamer, straightforward

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Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Monday, October 12th, 2009

What is your TEDx job?
During the day, I’m a blogger for Dutch newspaper nrc.next. In the night time, I blog for TEDxAmsterdam.

ernst-jan

What is your favorite TED talk?
I was impressed by the moving talk of Sir Ken Robinson. He says that schools kill creativity. Not in an aggressive way, but witty, with the typical British jokes. I wish more people would stop striving for mediocrity, but allow talent and originality to flourish.

What would you tell during your 3-minute TEDx Talk?
Internet is the new LSD, didn’t you know yet? I thought so. That’s why I’ll use my three minutes to explain that LSD and internet both help you to break through existing structures. Yet there’s also a problem: they’re both pretty addictive. So my main message would be: use internet as a means to achieve big audacious goals (more here).

Come up with five keywords that define you:
Ambitious, blogging, new media, connecting, and generalist.

More about Ernst-Jan
Personal blog
Twitter
LinkedIn

Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. cc: by-sa

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Rik Mahieu

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

RickWhat is your TEDx job?
Motion Design. I’m responsible for the TEDxAmsterdam Teaser and all video related content for the website.

What would you tell during your 3-minute TEDx Talk?
The subject of my 3 minute Talk would be “Life Experience”. Someone very close to me once said, that in a past life she was an aboriginal. As funny as this may sound (I laughed about it, more than once), but this is a universal feeling and what she meant to say was that she has a strong bond with these people which goes beyond her understanding. So what I would do is, make a documentary about this quest for her roots, make a visit to Australia and look for different (unconventional) explanations of this ‘past life mystery’, from Psychology to Neurology, from Astronomy to Geometry and Religion to Quantum Physics. And in this 3-minute Talk I would tell my experiences making this documentary.

Come up with five keyword that define you:
Focus, determination, caring, stubborn, learner

What is your favorite TED talk?
I like unconventional explanations to mysteries people think about. To me that’s creativity and open-mindness, factors that are capable of providing a breakthrough.
On a substance level, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of my heroes. But on a performance based level I enjoy watching Poet Rives with 4 a.m. and Siegfried Woldhek’s true face of Leonardo da Vinci

More about Rik
Company website
LinkedIn

Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. cc: by-sa

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Albert-Jan Tebbe

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

What is your TEDx job?
Project manager video stream

Albert-jan

Your Favorite TEDtalk?
Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds

What would you speak about during your 3 minute TEDx Talk?
A story about passion for developing new concepts, breaking boundaries, not only fools fall into a million traps, music as the most abstract art form, why the moon is more intriguing than the sun and why the ultimate strive for happiness is developing yourself and continuously gathering knowledge.

Come up with five keywords that define you
Energetic, Open, Passionate, Optimistic and Persistent

More about Albert-Jan
LinkedIn
Posts by Albert-Jan

Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. cc: by-sa

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