Who is?

About: Kate Kendall is a digital thinker and doer who’s been working in the social web space since 2007. She’s writes, speaks and consults on marketing, community engagement, content strategy, product development and communications.  She’s listed as one of 15 recommended-to-follow Australians by Twitter, was named as one of Brazen Careerist’s Top 20 Young Professionals to Watch in 2012 and one of The Age Top 100 Influential People of 2011 in Melbourne. She can be found in Melbourne, San Francisco and her new-love Berlin.

Kate is the creator of The Fetch – a what’s happening guide to your city’s business, digital and creative communities. The all-you-need-to-know fortnightly curated emails are now in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane with hopes for it to spread around the globe from 2012.

She is also currently working on Cloud Peeps – a platform to connect community managers with startups and small businesses.

Kate kicked off and seeds the Social Media Melbourne community, which involves inclusive conversational gatherings of people interested and working in the social media space. As one of Melbourne’s largest digital meetups, the group is renowned for facilitating discussion across industry and is a catalyst for collaboration, idea generation and knowledge transfer.

In 2011, Kate has been working with Travellerspoint (one of the largest travel communities on the web), The Conversation (a recently-launched news and analysis site), and others. She has also appeared on community radio via Triple R’s Byte into It and co-organised the tech entrepreneurship focused meetup Silicon Beach.

In 2010, Kate was working with a Y Combinator-funded travel startup called Adioso as the marketing and communications director helping shape the public-facing activities. Prior to this, she was the digital director at the magazine company Niche Media, which publishes titles such as Australian Macworld, Marketing, Desktop and Architectural Review Australia. In this role, Kate was responsible for the digital division and team, which included business and web development, content, social media and marketing activities for the online portfolio.

Kate started at Niche Media in 2008 as the online editor and feature writer of Marketing magazine, and had the pleasure of writing cover stories on global superbrands such as Google, L’Oréal and Microsoft.

Before this, Kate worked in a mixture of editorial, marketing and communication roles in the magazine and retail industries at companies such as Universal Magazines, ACP Magazines and Bed Bath N’ Table.

She has a Bachelor of Science from The University of Melbourne in biotechnology and microbiology, and did her Masters of Business (Marketing) at RMIT University with a thesis on social media strategy.

You can follow Kate on Twitter via @katekendall, @thefetch and @womenhack or visit any of the ‘Connect with me’ links on the right. For recommendations, visit LinkedIn.

Kate is interested in entrepreneurship and startup culture, innovation in publishing and journalism, empowering women, connecting networks and people, experiencing the world and generally, being kind.

Current short bio:

Kate Kendall is a global digital thinker and doer working across the marketing, community and content space. She recently launched The Fetch – a what’s on guide to your city’s business, digital and creative communities and can often be found drinking chai lattes at the Social Media Melbourne meetup.

Images for mugshot purposes:

Available in the following Dropbox folder:

• kate-kendall.jpg (colour, mid-length)
• kate-kendall1.jpg (current avatar)
• kate-kendall2.jpg (B&W, portrait)