Our Advisory Board
Tac Anderson
www.newcommbiz.com
Tac Anderson is the Digital Consulting Director for Waggener Edstrom's Studio D group where he works with companies like Microsoft, Toshiba, HP, GE, T-Mobile and others, to reinvent their communications from the inside out using social media. Previously Tac managed both internal and external social media at Hewlett-Packard. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review book Groundswell. Tac also worked at Highway 12 Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence where he helped their portfolio companies leverage social media as well vetted new social media business opportunities.
Connect with Tac here.
Niall Devitt
www.bloggertone.com
Niall Devitt is a leading Irish sales management consultant and coach with over 10 years experience in recruiting, leading and training high performance teams. He is a recognised thought leader in business development, sales and social networking. His consulting company Beyond the Boardroom is one part of the International Partnership which is a strategic alliance to help Indigenous Irish companies to globalise successfully. He is also co -founder of Bloggertone, a new online business community, where business professionals can share opinions and sign up to blog about business.
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Jim Estill
www.jimestill.com
Jim Estill is a partner on Canrock Ventures. Prior to that, he started a compute distribution company from the trunk of his car, and grew that company to over 350 Million in sales. He sold this company to Synnex Canada, which he ran from 800 million to 2 billion. Mr. Estill is a published author and speaker on topics like time management, leadership, and social media. Mr. Estill has been actively involved in investing and mentoring many early stage tech businesses. Mr Estill sits on the board of RIM (Blackberry) and has done so since before they went public..
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Chuck Hester @ChuckHester
www.chuckhester.com
Chuck Hester has over 25 years experience in public relations, marketing and branding, with stints as an in-house marketing director, and public relations director for two marketing agencies. As the Communications Director for iContact, an email marketing software company, Chuck has used the power of social media to secure placements in national press, including Inc., Fast Company, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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Steve King @Smallbizlabs
www.emergentresearch.com
Steve King is a partner at Emergent Research and a Senior Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research. Steve's research is focused on identifying, analyzing and forecasting global trends and shifts impacting small businesses, including the growing small business role Facebook and other social media are playing. Steve is the blogger in residence at MyVenturePad.
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Phil Wainewright @philww
www.philwainewright.com
Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst, and consultant. He is best known for his Software as Services blog on ZDNet, and also blogs on The Connected Web at eBizQ, covering topics from cloud to social media. His newest role as an industry advocate is as vice-president of EuroCloud. He is CEO of strategic consulting group Procullux Ventures, where he advises US and European SaaS and cloud vendors on messaging, positioning, and go-to-market initiatives, and has developed a framework to help enterprises harness the cloud for business transformation.
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Barbara Weltman @barbaraweltman
www.barbaraweltman.com
Barbara Weltman is a trusted authority on small business. She has written more than 25 books, including perennial top-sellers "J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business." She blogs for Business.gov and Startup Nation, contributes to AOL Small Business and OPEN for American Express, and is a sought-after media commentator who has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Reuters, Forbes.com, Marketwatch.com, WABC-TV, Fox News, and CNBC. She hosts her own weekly radio show called Build Your Business.
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About Social Media Today
Jim Estill is a partner on Canrock Ventures and sits on the board of RIM (Blackberry). More »
Steve King is a partner at Emergent Research and a Senior Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research. More »
David Thomson is founder and Chairman of The Blueprint Growth Institute, a specialized management-consulting firm focused on helping.. More »
Phil Wainewright is a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst, and consultant. More »
Barbara Weltman has written more than 25 books on entrepreneurship. More »
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