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 [...]

Michael runs his own consulting business, Inspecht, specialising in HR technology and the application of Enterprise 2.0 tools and techniques for companies of all sizes. 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

photo credit: bfishadow 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]