Our Team
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Joselin Mane is a passionate Internet marketing consultant with more than 20 years of computer technology experience complemented by nine years of online marketing experience and more than 10 years of business development experience. His focus is working with small/midsize businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs to best leverage Internet technologies to systematically reach their financial and/or growth goals. Joselin specializes in wrapping marketing around technology to help grow his clients’ businesses in a more efficient way. Joselin’s expertise led him to be featured in a full-page advertisement for IBM within two years of being employed there. He was also appointed to an elite team within IBM’s elearning division, where he received personal requests for all large and/or strategically sensitive deals. Joselin can be reached via his consultancy, LITBeL Consulting, and also via Twitter: @JoselinMane and @BostonTweetUp. A more complete bio can be found on his website. |
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Selena Jakupovic is an Honors Scholar at Suffolk University and a Marketing and Management Major. Selena is currently working at Suffolk’s Marketing Department and as a Sawyer Ambassador. She is President of Suffolk’s Professional Marketing Association and VP of Marketing for its Women in Business Club. Selena manages BostonTweetUp’s Twitter account and updates BostonTweetUp’s calendar. |
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Josh Saphier is currently attending Suffolk University with a focus in entrepreneurship and marketing. Josh grew up in a very small town in Maine. He has been in Boston for the past five years living an exciting and fast-paced city life. Josh is a certified barista and bartender and has thoroughly enjoyed working both jobs. On the side, Josh is an event staffing coordinator for Plum Productions LLC and works for a promotional advertisement company. At BostonTweetUp, Josh creates blog posts directed at event organizers, browses events for team members to attend, and writes guides. |
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If you were to Google Kelsey Schachter, you’d find out she is a rower, Cape Codder, blogger, tweeter, Facebooker, and ice skater: pretty standard information. What you might not realize is that Kelsey loves all things low tech–Kelsey’s day planner is her life. This may seem contradictory to her passion for social media, but she enjoys taking these online connections and making them happen in real-time events. Kelsey is all about the details, because it’s the little things like hand-written thank-you notes that make things special. |
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When she’s not connecting people via BostonTweetUp, Annalisa serves on the Corporate Affairs team of a leading global education company. Her expertise includes copywriting, copyediting, communications strategy, event planning and speechwriting. Annalisa serves on the Young Professionals Board of Jumpstart and is a member of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Women’s Leadership Program. She also volunteers locally with Horizons for Homeless Children, Junior Achievement and Tenacity. Annalisa graduated cum laude from Boston University, and has also completed studies at Oxford University and the University of Padua. |
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Mike “Ambassador” Bruny helps entrepreneurs and companies get the most out of their conference experience through strategic and tactical planning. He helps them build and convert online contacts to offline relationships at conferences and events. ”I help people walk into a conference and get greeted like Norm from the TV show Cheers…enough said.” Mike’s process is known as “Hashtags to Handshakes” and you can experience it at his website: www.HashtagsToHandshakes.com. Don’t forget to grab your FREE audio download, “10 Conference Affirmations to Prepare You for Your Event.” When he is not helping others build relationships, Mike can be found dancing salsa and wearing one of his many bow ties. |
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Dawn Durkee is an independent woman who lives every day to the fullest. Dawn has worked in the Health Care field for 16 years, but her true passions lie in event planning, philanthropy and volunteering. Dawn has organized three fundraisers: two for the Susan G. Komen 60-Day Breast Cancer walk (in which she also participated as a walker) and one for her friend’s son, Aidan, who at the age of five and a half was was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and succumbed to Swine Flu while in remission. Dawn wanted to turn this tragedy into something positive and help her friends deal with their loss, which is why she created the Aidan’s Hope benefit. The event was held on August 18, 2009, and generated $10,000 in donations. Dawn is also a foodie. She loves cooking, baking, wine tasting and trying new restaurants. Other hobbies include biking, working out, and walking. |
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Yvonne is a creative entrepreneur who was born and raised in Boston. She is passionate about life and loves anything that inspires or ignites her mind. She is dynamic in every sense and is easily captivated by photography, music, art, lifestyle, and creativity. |
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Ashley Brown graduated from Wheaton College last May with a degree in Sociology and a minor in Art History. Born and raised in Harvard, MA, Ashley currently lives in Boston. She is passionate about visual culture, fashion, environmental issues, and social media. Ashley’s responsibilities include creating the BostonTweetUp newsletter and managing the BostonTweetUp blog. |
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Welina Farah |
Welina is your typical 22 year old living in Boston. If you overheard her answering the question, “Where do you love to go in the city?”, beware: no two answers are ever the same. Anything and everything will entice our little Bostonian, giving her an eye of objectivity and an unbiased love for most, if not all. To call her detail-oriented would be an understatement. She notices the little things in a big situation, which can be helpful when details are of dire importance. She is a senior at UMass Boston majoring in Sociology, and hopes to continue working in social media. |
Fee Naaijkens |
With more than five years experience in journalism and public relations, Fee has worked with a number of industries and for several magazines and online media channels. Most recently, Fee worked as a social media trainer and PR manager for Co Unlimited, an employer branding agency in Amsterdam. There, she worked on several campaigns and trained young professionals on how to blog and tweet as ambassadors. She also organized several tweetups herself. Her goals with tweetups included bringing graduates and young professionals together, as well as exchanging thoughts and ideas with HR managers and recruiters on employer branding. Fee (pronounced “Fay”) moved to Boston in January 2011. |
Maha Aad |
Maha is an ever-evolving Gemini, B2B Event Manager and Twintern. |
Selena Jakupovic
