Our agency employs social media professionals to assist our clients in planning, engaging and succeeding in their social strategies. We don’t claim to be an expert in social media, but understand its relevance to business from a web analytics & seo campaign perspective. We work with agencies and marketers to ensure that you are achieving a rounded strategy which uses social media, sem, and seo which is measured by analytics.

Please visit our website if you wanted to learn more about social media campaigns, or follow our agency on twitter with The Lost Twitter.

For the last two years Michael has asked all his information technology students to keep a blog for assessment in each course that he teaches. He uses several other social media tools in his teaching, notably wikis, shared bookmarks and social networks, and is progressively integrating these tools into the new approach being referred to as Education 2.0. Michael has a particular interest in screencasting for student instruction and revision purposes. In a consultancy role he gives regular presentations to his university colleagues and local high school teachers on the use of cloud computing and social media tools in the education environment.

There is a growing proliferation of cloud computing applications for business and personal use such as Google Apps, the impressive Zoho suite and the coming Office Essentials from Microsoft – the online versions of part of the Office suite. In combination with social media tools for internal and customer communication these cloud computing applications can provide all-of-business support for small and medium sized businesses. Michael is currently developing training materials in this space and aims to begin offering consultancy and presentations in the near future.

As an aside in 1995 Michael and a PhD student happened to be the first people to use the word ‘weblog’ for an online meetings support system, one of the precursors to blogs that started to appear in 1997. Details appear in a blog entry.

LinkedIn and Skype: mjrees
Twitter and Facebook: mrees

He has worked in the HR technology industry in a multitude of roles ranging from software development, consulting and project management both in Australia and overseas.

Michael has considerable expertise in the development and implementation of solutions to effectively manage people data, ranging from global ERP HR/Payroll systems to employee portals and social networks. He is a regular speaker on HR technology for the Australian Human Resource Institute and has been involved in their HRIS Special Interest Group. In addition to writing this blog he actively participates in the conversation around Web 2.0, social software and the impact on organisations and management practices.

As an experienced project and change manager Michael has completed a Graduate Certificate in Technology Management, is a PRINCE2 Practitioner and Certified in the Principles of Change Management.

On LinkedId, Facebook, Twitter

I write articles on engaging Social Media for brand promotion and enhancing brand values using online expertise. Have a strong expertise in using many web related tools and logical approach towards any Digital Campaign. I focus on building Digital Strategies for any Brand, Service or an individual.

I actively write on my blog – http://rudhrakssh.wordpress.com. I am also present on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Orkut.

For people in the social media / PR 2.0 space who like some flexibility in how they define or describe their professional roles, this site and its participant requirements are about as friendly as we could make them. It’s pretty much a self-selecting process, with the one slightly restrictive requirement that we expect people putting their profile up here to have been working in the field for at least a year.

For people who like more precise definitions and more stringent entry requirements, there may be an element of discomfort. We hope, if you are working in the field, you will join anyway: you never know, you might get to like it here!

If you are a fan of Ricardo Semler (Maverick, The Seven- Day Weekend) you’ll understand that there is a seriousness of purpose underlying the laissez faire approach Lonnie and I are taking here, not just about requirements for participation, but about what the site might evolve into and how it might operate in the meantime.

In other words, we are making it up as we go along. And we are not embarrassed about that. We think that is actually quite smart, given how fast the world, the economy, the social media space itself, are changing.

But that’s just what we think. Or at least, today, what I think. It’s what Lonnie thought yesterday, but that was then and I haven’t discussed it with him today.

What’s your view about how this site can develop to help us all – or as many of us as want to play?

Just as long as we keep it fun. Please.

freeway Pic – cc – by Des Walsh, en route Las Vegas to Los Angeles 2008

There is not–nor will there ever be–a fee to include your bio here. Any ads that might appear–and there will be very few allowed–will be carefully screened.

So, you ask, why did Des and I put this together? We are not wholly sure except that we saw a need for a one-stop shopping list for those who wanted to engage services or just connect with a social media person near them. That translates to mean that we are open to additions to the site that will make it more meaningful for all of us and welcome your input–this is after all a conversational site.

For now we are on a WordPress platform and will move at some point to a more robust vehicle that will allow for greater individual freedom for all of us.

Start-ups and established social media platforms may also place a business outline here. Please make your outline informative and not merely a pitch.

If you are a visitor, welcome and if you are a social media consultant: Please see the page on How to Begin to get your profile up and active! Thanks for stopping in…

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Social Media Consultants resulted from a conversation between Des Walsh and Lonnie Hodge about the lack of a centralized way to locate Social Medians and PR 2.0 specialists in a specific geographical location.

This blog will host bios, events, and posts from the best and brightest in the most exciting and fast growing area of the Internet.

I specialize in helping entrepreneurs who are already successful take their business to the next level and achieve that in a such a way that their friends and family arel still talking to them when they have achieved their business goals.

In my coaching I set a high value on attentive listening. My key aim, expressed in the terms I learned in the schools of Coachville, is to elicit the greatness my clients have in them.

With many years of speaking and presenting to small and large groups, I relish opportunities to work with like minded people internationally, across industry sectors and geographical and cultural barriers.

Twenty years in business. Established my own consulting, training and coaching business after a successful career in public service.

Currently a member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching – IAC.
Member of the interim Advisory Group for Social Media Club
Member of the Advisory Board of the International Blogging and New Media Association – IBNMA

Foundation Member, Creative Skills Training Council, Australia and Asia Pacific.

I’m based in the seaside town of Tweed Heads on Australia’s Gold Coast region. Thanks to Web 2.0 technology I can help people worldwide without having to leave my desk. But I do have a neat little netbook and love to travel!

There are more details about my experiences and achievements at my LinkedIn page.

I love the potential of social media to break down geographical, cultural and political barriers and its capacity to help smaller businesses play a larger game, globally, nationally, locally, as they choose. And I am passionate about how coaching can help achieve that.

With social media consultant colleagues around the globe I am well aware that not everyone in business, by a long shot, welcomes the use of social media.

In fact, I believe there is a major challenge for the many people in business, government, education and the not-for-profit sector who want to harness the power of social media -  a challenge of resistance by many people in their organizatons, some very powerful or influential.   I also believe that the concerns of those people who are resisting the onslaught of social media can be addressed systematically and effectively, though culturally sensitive, well-informed coaching, for the ultimate benefit of their particular enterprises and their own growth in understanding and competence, as individual professionals in an increasingly networked world.

The key, as far as I am concerned, is to be strategic. The ultimate justification for social media in the enterprise is that it advances the achievement of the goals of that enterprise.

On Twitter and Skype: deswalsh

On LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deswalsh (Note: I have many boilerplate invitations to connect on LinkedIn growing musty with age, unanswered – I don’t have the heart to hit “I don’t know this person”)

Main blog: Des Walsh dot Com

LONNIE B. HODGE

Conversational marketing, Branding, Online Digital Marketing via conventional & PR 2.0; Consulting and Digital Dream-weaving internationally. His specialty is social media integration and strategy building.

Professor Lonnie Hodge currently teaches language, culture and global marketing in southern China and is the c0-creator and CEO of Culture Fish Media.Lonnie, a twenty-year resident of Asia, has been a consultant and Search Engine Marketing specialist for SMEs and Multi-National Corporations for eight of those years. Professor Hodge holds degrees in Communications, Fine Arts, Education and Engineering; he is the past founder and director of the Rocky Mountain Training Institute, a global consultancy to Ministries of Health and Education in various countries.

Specialties:

PR 2.0, Conversational Marketing, Branding, Editing, Content Management, Social Networking, Education, SEO/SEM and Analytics, China Consulting, Cultural SEO/SEM, Cultural Branding, Cultural Marketing, Public Speaking

Follow Lonnie on Twitter @lonniehodge or follow his personal blog at Onemanbadnwidth: An American Professor in China

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