Social Media

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology, but service to community. – Simon Mainwaring

Social media is part of almost everyone’s everyday life. Along with its negative reputation, social media also presents a lot of opportunities, especially for branding and marketing. During and after my job in marketing at Webster University Vienna, I worked on social media campaigns and presented ideas, which were partly implemented, to the head of marketing. I also planned out the social media and online marketing roll-out campaign for a student-run online media publication, The Loop.

I am a huge marketing fan and I am always on the lookout for new marketing, online as well as offline, strategies and campaigns.

Business & Management Society

In January 2014, I founded and created Webster’s official Business and Management Society for students, alumni and faculty in the field. There have been similar societies in the past, but all of them concentrated on specific business areas. The Business and Management Society, is a network for people interested in all fields of Business and Management, starting from Advertising, over Finance, all the way to Human Resources.

I held the position as president and treasurer for the first year and we are now in the process of finding and training a new president for the upcoming year, who will take over the responsibilities and will hopefully keep the main idea of the society alive.

Webster LEADS

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his [or her] vision comes from passion, not position. – John Maxwell

I am also one of the first students to complete the Webster LEADS (Learn, Evolve, Apply, Develop, Serve) Leadership Certificate at Webster University Vienna. The certificate includes two leadership classes, a leadership retreat, several professional development workshops, service learning projects and practical leadership experience. After completing all five components and after repeating two of those (5+2 system), I will hand in my leadership portfolio which includes documentation of everything I have done and I will receive my certificate.

If you want to know more about the Webster LEADS Leadership program, you will find more information on
http://www.webster.ac.at/current-students/webster-leadership-program

Student Leader at Webster University Vienna

Leadership is influence. – John C. Maxwell

Every semester, current students at Webster University Vienna welcome new students on campus. The role of the student leaders, is to introduce the new students to the University and to the current student body, as well as, to Vienna in general. Webster University Vienna has students from all over the world, therefore the new student groups are always a very interesting cultural mix.

From my second semester onward at Webster, I started my role as a student leader and am, therefore, now one of the Senior student leaders on campus. Not only do we, student leaders, take the students from one presentation to the next but we take them on campus and neighbourhood tours and we take them to off-campus activities where they also get to meet other current students. The Orientation days are always great fun and I enjoy it every single semester. I usually take the Freshmen students, so the first year students, but through all the off-campus activities, I also get to know all the other student groups, such as the transfer students and the study abroad students.

In August and October 2014, I was not only be part of my last orientation, but I also planned and organised the training for all the new student leaders on campus and was in charge of preparing for the Orientation days as well as was the main responsible person at Orientation.

Below you can see two pictures of our team of student leaders at two New Student Orientations on campus.