About me
İlden Dirini
Social Media Manager - Journalist
I'm a social media manager, copywriter and content creator and my own company ToDo Social's director. I manage social media accounts and create contents for small businesses looking after benefits of digital era. I help them to commence or improve digitalising some of their daily business activities for marketing and public relations. I accompany them through this journey as a teammate to make it exciting and most profitable.
I do voluntary works for some charities and associations to help them making our world a better place.
Work Experience
News Editor & Social Media Specialist
Gercek Gundem, 2018 – 2019 Antalya
Gerçek Gündem is one of the most visited (~500 000 page view) online news
portal in Turkey. I managed economy and politics section. Also I was
responsible for analysing social media and website usage statistics and
creating reports to improve our news portal and social media channels.
Social Media Specialist, & Content Writer
Freelancer, 2015 - 2018 Urla
As a freelancer I started to publish about events and organizations in
Urla, a small town at the furthest west of Turkey and I lived in for 4
years. I built a website and create social media pages through which I
published news, interviews, announcements. Advertisements and etc. After a
couple of months it grew up and turned into a promising small business.
Urla Etkinlikleri (Urla Events) was my first independent business from
scratch. After moving from Urla I sold and exited.
Beside Urla Etkinlikleri, I worked for my clients and other digital agencies.
I generated contents for my own clients, like Izmir Yasam Yatirim, Online Kurum Egitim Yazilimlari and Bidolu Baski.
Through several digital agencies, I also created various kinds of content for the most known companies in Turkey, like Tekzen, n11, Hepsi Burada, Tatil Sepeti, Barcin, Unico Sigorta.
I worked closely with a local venture named 3D Maker & Tasarım Atölyesi. I managed social media channels and produced digital materials for events.
News Editor & Social Media Specialist
Gerçek Gündem, 2013 - 2015, Istanbul
News Editor & Social Media Specialist
Yurt Gazetesi, 2012 - 2013, Istanbul
News Reporter & Radio Host
Özgür Radyo, 2009 - 2012, Istanbul
Özgür Radyo was a news radio station in Istanbul. I worked in different positions, editor, reporter and presenter. I also prepared and presented radio programs about women's rights, new media and journalism.
Skills
- New media research
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Social Media Management and Online Marketing Tools
Hootsuite / Buffer / Mailchimp -
Data cleansing, analysing and visualizing tools
Knoema / Tableu / Infogr.am -
Graphic Tools
Adobe Photoshop / Gimp / Canva - Content Management
- Wordpress Customization
- SEO
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Office Apps
Word Processor / Spreadsheet / Presentation -
Audio Processing
Audacity / Adobe Audition - Linux and Windows Operating System Basics
Education
2015 – 2017 Anadolu University, International Relations (Bachelor's Degree)
2012 – 2014 Anadolu University, Media and Communication (Associate's Degree)
Courses
- “34 Digital Marketing Hacks - Improve Social Media Marketing Course” - UDEMY – 2020
- “The Complete WordPress Website & SEO Traning” – UDEMY -2020
- “Open Data Camp and National Open Data Conference” - Open Data and Data Journalism Association and British Embassy Ankara – 2016
- “Open Data and Data Literacy Course ” - Open Data and Data Journalism Association – 2016
- “Data Analysis with Free and Open Software Workshop for Social Scientists” - 18. Academic Informatics Conference – 2016
- “Social Media and Digital Marketing Course” - Univerist – 2015
- “Public Relations Course” - Kurumsal Kampüs / EETAC Member – 2015
- “Interview Workshop” - Prof. Yasemin İnceoğlu, Doç. Dr. Esra Arsan, Journalists Celal Başlangıç and Ragıp Duran – 2013
- Elocution Training - Career Academy / Gülgun Feyman ve Murat Atıl - 2010
Seminars
- As a member of the Organization Committee of the second and third National Congress of New Media Studies – 2015/ 2017
- Ethical Principles for New Media: Ethical 2.0 - Workshop - Kadir Has University - 2011
- Hate Speech on the New Media - Seminar - 27th National Informatics Conference - 2010
- Hate Speech on online news portals - Seminar - 15th Turkey’s Internet Conference - 2010
Papers
- 2019 - A Guide To Fight Digital Gender Based Violence
- ISBN 978-605-62169-9-2
- 2010 - Re-spreaded Hate Through Reader Comments - Book chapter - Hate Speech in the New Media
- ISBN 9786055679576
Tutoring
- Citizen Journalism for Women Workers - Labour Unions, Women Workers and Social Media Training Project - 2012
- “Techniques for reading and writing news” - Citizen Journalism Certificate Program - Istanbul Bilgi University -2012
Associations
- Alternative Informatics Association, co-founder
- Open Data and Data Journalism Association, member
- Hafıza Kaydı, Researcher, Writer