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About Social Media Consultants

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:45:07 +0000

This site is the first ready reference site that provides a geographical and specialty sorted list of Social Media and PR 2.0 Specialists and Consultants world-wide. Several of the world’s most respected social medians and PR 2.0 consultants have already agreed to be part of this network.

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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Des Walsh – Coach and Social Media Strategist

des — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:50:47 +0000

I’m a social media strategist, business coach, author, blogger, international speaker and podcaster.

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

China Social Media and PR 2.0 Optimization: Lonnie Hodge

admin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:11:49 +0000

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.

He is a well-known lecturer worldwide, covering topics such as Asian culture, international trade, search engine optimization (SEO), marketing, ESL, Creativity, Humor and personal growth and development for universities, small to large businesses, The Kellogg Leadership Program, The Fetzer Institute and more. Lonnie, widely published and anthologized, is also a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the highest juried award given to American writers and is the co-founder of the online China Dreamblogue project which provides digital internships for exceptional students while raising funds for educational charities.

In past incarnations Lonnie has been a professional actor, widely anthologized poet, champion archer, martial arts instructor and military officer. Professor Hodge now concentrates his efforts as a PR 2.o and conversational marketing specialist and SEM, business and education and creative strategies consultant for emerging and established companies and institutions seeking to better brand or improve market visibility in Asia. Lonnie’s biography has appeared in numerous Who’s Who publications throughout the years and he is a member of the China Speakers Bureau, Coleman Consulting, Standard and Poor’s Consultation Group and the Asia Pacific Creative Skills Training Council.

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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