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Michael J Rees – Social Media and Cloud Computing

Consultant — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:47:57 +0000

Michael is a computer science academic who for the last decade has been researching the Web 2.0 collaborative tools that are now referred to as cloud computing applications. Since 2005 he has been using social media tools for his teaching and research. He began blogging seriously at that time and uses his Impressions Scholarcast blog as a professional diary to record his ‘comments, thoughts, collected gems, morsels and scintillas’.

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

Gautam Ghosh – Blogger and Microblogger

gautam — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:16:18 +0000

Gautam Ghosh is a HR Consultant based out of Delhi, India. He runs two major blogs one on Business & Management issues, and another one on Social Media and India.

Gautam Ghosh

Gautam has given talks on “Blogging for Business” at organizations. He’s frequently quoted in the press as an authority on business blogging. If you want to interview him or invite him to speak at a conference, e-mail him or call at +91-98731-41236.

Gautam’s blog has been listed by HRWorld amongst the top 25 HR blogs worldwide and also amongst the Career 100 – a list of the top 100 career related blogs globally in the English language. His blog is also featured in the Alltop HR, Alltop Careers and Alltop India categories. His blog has been featured as a case study in the book Business Blogs: A Practical Guide

In the area of social media Gautam has advised and mentored the CEO of an Executive Search Firm in India to start blogging and gain international visibility. He has also addressed large organizations on using blogging on the intranet to capture Knowledge as well as on starting an external blog to build employment branding.

Currently a HR Consultant at Vyaktitva, his experience in the corporate world was as a HR Manager at Deloitte & Touche, and in organizations like Dell, Hewlett Packard and Satyam Computer Services. His detailed professional profile can be found here. Also take a look at what ex-bosses, colleagues, friends and blog readers think about his work.

More spaces where he hangs out:

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Bhanuprakash. K – Digital PR Professional & Social Media Manager

Consultant — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:38:53 +0000

A Digital PR professional & a Social Media manager, from India practicing Digital PR, Online Reputation Management & Search Engine Marketing from past 3 years. Have an experience of 8 years in Web & multimedia and led my own Advertising & Web-Multimedia agency for 4 years. Have experience of working for many reputed brands, celebrities such as Penguin Publishers, Shobhaa De, Loreal, and Star Network.

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.