Monty Metzger

Speech: 7 Digital Trends to Watch

Monty — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:42:44 +0000

Last weekend I was Speaker & Jury-Member at StartUp Live “From Idea to Product in 54 Hours” in Zagreb, Croatia. I met lots of passionate entrepreneurs and developers and enjoyed discussing their business ideas. I also hold a speech about “Seven Digital Trends to Watch” and explained major trends in the digital landscape by showcasing [...]

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Shifting paradigm: how mobile technology rules the world!

Monty — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:47:37 +0000

What a difference 8 years makes: St. Peter’s Square in 2005 and yesterday. Welcome to the Digital World, Pope Francis. We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next 8 months and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 8 years.

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German chancellor Angela Merkel meets German StartUp Elite

Monty — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:57:15 +0000

Chancellor Angela Merkel invited 175 CEOs of StartUps, Investors and Entrepreneurs to Berlin. It was a pleasure to be part of this event and it was a good first step to connect politics with the dynamic internet economy. Here is my german review: Merkel trifft Deutsche Internet StartUps Great Video Summary of the event:

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Facebook Graph Search

Monty — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:28:46 +0000

Finally, Facebook is updating it’s search functionality with “Graph Search”. Facts: Facebook currently has more than a billion users with more than a trillion connections. And there are more than 240 billion fotos published on facebook. Graph Search is a new way for you to find people, photos, places and interests that are most relevant [...]

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Future Scenario True Skin: Is this our future?

Monty — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:42:19 +0000

The creative filmmaker Stephan Zlotescu analyzed todays technological developmemt as well as digital media trends and created a future scenario in his short movie “True Skin”. The movies plays with technology trends like Google Glasses, Augmented Reality, 3D printing, 3D holograms, robotics, sensor technologies etc, but also reflects the social development of human society, e.g. [...]

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Kate’s topless pictures: Why Kate Middleton needs a new PR Manager!

Monty — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:32:41 +0000

The italian magazine Chi and french magazine Closer have published a series of topless picture of Kate Middleton the Duchess of Cambridge. Now Prince William and Kate Middleton are threatening to sue French magazine Closer for printing her topless pictures. It seems that the PR Manager of Kate and William are not aware of the [...]

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Monster Inc., reinvent or die?

Monty — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:56:36 +0000

In the late nineties the recruiting industry had been turned upside down by the start of many online job-posting websites, including the launch of Monster.com. Over a decade later the online recruiting industry seems to reach a dead end. The former giant and market leader Monster Inc. is tumbling and the CEO Sal Iannuzzi does [...]

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New Social Network “Best of All Worlds” (BOAW) challenging facebook & co

Monty — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:01:19 +0000

Erik Wachtmeister, former founder of the exclusive social network “A Small World” is sending out private invitations for his latest online project. Erik writes: We are getting close to the launch of our new private online community. Best of All Worlds in the coming weeks. I wanted to make sure you received your invitation. As [...]

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Goodbye RECOMY

Monty — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:16:33 +0000

I want to inform you in advance that I will be leaving RECOMY later this summer. Since we started working on the early concept in January 2011, I have had the privilege to found the company, develop a high-potential business plan and build a powerful technology platform. At the same time Social Recruiting has developed [...]

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Facebook teams up with Olympic Games in London 2012

Monty — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:33:59 +0000

Facebook has announced a partnership with the Olympic Games in London 2012 at a press event at Facebook London today. The partnership is a big step on the way to monetize the social network and its fight against Google and Twitter. Although Facebook has 10 times more Page Views that YouTube, Facebook’s revenue is still [...]

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Social Recruiting: Fish Where The Fish Are

Monty — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:39:37 +0000

I am often asked why Social Recruiting is important? That’s why I’d like to summarize some the most important facts: - People are spending more time on social media than on the open web. - 1 out of 3 job seekers use social media for their job search. - While 9 our of 10 active [...]

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Timeline for Facebook Pages

Monty — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:43:29 +0000

Today Faceook introduced Timeline for Facebook Pages during their first FMC (Facebook Marketing Conference) in New York City. Here are the core features facebook is presenting. Brand your Page: Add a unique cover photo and showcase your most important news on your Page timeline. Highlight what matters: Pin a new post to the top of [...]

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Send your Lego Man to space for $ 400 USD

Monty — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:19:30 +0000

Amazing. Two young boys send their Lego Man into near space with a $ 400,- USD construction. They used a balloon to send the Lego Man including a wide angel video camera almost 25 km into space. Article by LA Times: Two Canadian high school students have successfully launched a Lego man almost 80,000 feet [...]

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Shaun Rein: The End of Cheap China

Monty — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:32:48 +0000

Back in 2006 I opened an office in China with my former company. It was an exciting time and I enjoyed working with our chinese team a lot. Nevertheless it was also very challenging and it was though to increase efficiency and results, especially working closely with our other teams in Munich, New York and [...]

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How to recruit a social media manager?

Monty — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:37:54 +0000

In this presentation I explain core qualities of a social media manager and explain three tips for your Social Recruiting strategy. The speech was held Nov 21, 2011, at the Social Media Economy Days in Munich. How to recruit a Social Media Manager? View more presentations from Monty Metzger

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The end of Recruiting as you know it?

Monty — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:30:41 +0000

I am proud to be part of the game changers, the disrupters and the doers, a new bread of companies in the recruiting and job industry leveraging social media to change the online-job-posting and recruiting industry as you know it. RECOMY has started with a simple idea and has now become a cutting edge web [...]

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Success in Social Recruiting

Monty — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:27:47 +0000

Yesterday I hold the first official keynote as CEO of RECOMY about “Success in Social Recruiting”. I presented some insights in our development at RECOMY and showed and explained a lot of screenshots of our brand new social recruiting platform. For this public version I had to take most of these screenshots out (as you [...]

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Future of Mobile Health (mHealth)

Monty — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:21:26 +0000

I hold a keynote speech about the Future of Mobile Health. The impact of mobile media is fundamentally changing the health-, pharma and fitness industry. The goal of the impulse speech was to dive into todays trends, understand key-drivers and learn how to be prepared for the future. The stethoscope was invented in 1816 and [...]

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Apple introduces new iPhone 4S

Monty — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:03:42 +0000

Today the new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has presented the new iPhone 4S in Cupertino, California – USA. Apple has introduced a re-make of the iPhone 3G aswell – the iPhone 3GS – so they are strictly keeping in line with their strategy. The 4S will come in both black and white, starting at [...]

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Green meets Digital: How digital trends are shaping a green future?

Monty — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:55:07 +0000

Today I hold a speech at a Business Breakfast of the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) in Budapest, Hungary. The topic of my speech was “Green meets Digital: How digital trends are shaping a green future?”. I started my talk with a couple of powerful questions: - What is the power of my generation? [...]

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