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September 29

Molecular Appoints New Managing Director in San Francisco

Molecular, Inc., a leading interactive agency, today announced it has promoted Melanie Lowe to the position of vice president and managing director of its San Francisco office. Lowe will become part of the agency’s Executive Team, replacing Wei-Tai Kwok, who is taking an extended sabbatical.

Lowe joined Molecular through its acquisition of Asian-headquartered Ion Global where she most recently served as director of operations in San Francisco. In her new role, Lowe is responsible for leading the agency’s west coast operations by cultivating key client relationships and managing seasoned services teams across disciplines, geographies and the wider Isobar network, of which Molecular is a member.

“Melanie’s breadth of global experience and track record for driving project excellence makes her a perfect fit for this role,” said Molecular President Howard Kogan. “We are delighted to have Melanie at the helm to continue driving the growth and success of our San Francisco office working with Fortune 500 brands in telecom, financial services, software and entertainment.”

A native of Canada, Lowe brings 18 years of experience in marketing, program management and operations, the last nine of which have been spent with the company in various management roles based in Hong Kong, London and San Francisco. Through a holistic, global view of online and offline marketing and program management, she has helped clients such as McAfee, UK Department of Trade and Industry, Language Line and United Commercial Bank get the most out of their businesses online. Her other roles within the company have included corporate communications and operations with responsibility for finance, marketing, human resources and information technology.

Lowe said, “I am extremely proud to have been selected for this role to harness our people’s collective intelligence and turn that into results-driven digital solutions for our clients. Our fantastic client roster and diverse pool of talent continues to inspire me, as does being collocated with 200+ digital professionals in our San Francisco Isobar agencies–Carat, Freestyle Interactive, Ammo Marketing and iProspect.”  Prior to joining Molecular, Melanie worked in various marketing and management capacities across diverse industries including property development, retail, biopharma, tourism and non-profits and has been involved with major projects for the Swire Group, Cirque du Soleil and Special Olympics.

About Molecular
 Molecular is a top interactive agency that partners with results-driven companies to create highly effective, cutting-edge digital design solutions grounded in research and tied to business results. Since 1994, Molecular has directed successful Web initiatives for the nation’s leading brands, including adidas, Fidelity Investments, HumanaOne, Reebok and Talbots. Headquartered in Boston, Molecular also has offices in New York and San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.molecular.com.

About Isobar
Launched as a digital division of Aegis Media in May 2003, Isobar is the world’s largest digital marketing network and is uniquely structured for an interconnected digital world.  Isobar provides the vision, infrastructure, tools and processes that link a network of some of the very best digital agencies in the world – all fully owned and driven by a clear vision of the future business world.  For more information, please visit www.isobar.net.

September 25

Overview: Effective Presentations

I recently had the great opportunity to participate in a presentation training course hosted by Darren LaCroix, who is a presenter trainer from Humor411 (www.humor411.com). During that one-day training, I’ve learned a lot of very useful tips on how to more effectively present. I am by no means an expert in speaking (far from it), and this post is not meant to be a lesson. Instead, I wanted to share my experience with this training course and highlight some of the key takeaways that I personally found helpful.

The training started with an overview of public speaking, where Darren showed us three example videos. The first one was a final presentation he gave that won him The World Champion in Public Speaking award in 2001. This example showed how captivating and engaging he was by employing the techniques that he was about to teach us. The second presentation was a dry-run of the same presentation. This example showed us the difference between using (or not using) some of the recommended techniques, and also demonstrated the epic difference practicing makes. The final one was a video of his very unsuccessful first on-stage performance. The purpose of showing us this example was to dispel the myth that some people are “born with” the talent of speaking – Darren went from someone who couldn’t complete a thought on stage to a world champion, and according to him, it was all about practicing and learning from people who presented well.

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September 2

Google comes up with new browser

Google has come up with a open source browser.
They have created a comic page describing about it.
So instead of repeating of what they say read this http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
enjoy!

references: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

August 22

Yahoo TV Widgets, An Important Convergence Milestone?

An interesting announcement hit the press yesterday.  Yahoo and Intel are partnering to combine web offers with broadcast TV content.  Here’s the story, straight from the horse’s mouth: Intel to build Yahoo widgets into new TV chips. The delivery vehicle is widgets built on top of the Yahoo Widget Engine, and the enabling hardware is the Intel CE3100 chip.  So this further elevates the importance of widgets as a vehicle for disseminating content and functionality across the Internet.  A number of important players, like Twitter, are lining up to deliver their services and information through this technology.  Here are some questions Does anyone else see this as an important milestone in convergence?  Will it breath new life into broadcast TV advertising?  There are 1.3 billion households with TV.  The number that receive the chip will determine adoption.  What are some ways that Intel can drive adoption?  Business models?  Incentives?  What do people think?

August 11

Brand-jacking

Twitter - ExxonMobilCorp

Twitter - ExxonMobilCorp

Last week I received an email notification that “Janet at ExxonMobil (ExxonMobilCorp) is now following your updates on Twitter.” Normally, I would block an unknown user from following my Twitter updates without much of a thought, however, after a cursory look at Janet’s public page, this seemed a bit more interesting than the standard “OMG I made a zillion dollars  click here to find out how!” business

I saw conflicting things:  the poor branding (a lossy, tiled background of gas stations and stock art) spoke to this as clearly not an official ExxonMobil outlet.  However, the tone and content (at first blush) of the seemingly reasonable and informed updates made me think twice.  Discussing the challenges faced by an oil company balancing energy needs with research?  I’ll accept that.  Maybe Janet was, as she statesan employee of ExxonMobil, who has decided to put forward her pride in her own company.”

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