Our Resources
David Bullock is a Senior Consultant with Social Media Directions.
David is an experienced mechanical engineer with a thorough understanding of process control. A switch to sales resulted in over $100 million worth of goods and services sold while serving as an international district account manager.
David has created very effective combination of processes that lead to increased sales by up to 300%. His unique approach and proven success have made him an authority among internet marketing and business development experts.
David is co-author of Barack 2.0, a case study of Barack Obama’s successful use of social media during the 2008 presidential campaign. This book has been added to the pre-reading curriculum at the Wharton School of Business. The Wharton Interactive Media Initiative – Monetizing Emerging Interactive Media.
David is highly regarded as a professional speaker and consultant. Clients include American Express, Lending Tree and a variety of community-based business organizations.
To learn more about his professional life you can review his Linkedin profile here.
email: david@davidbullock.net
Jay Deragon is a Senior Consultant with Social Media Directions.
His professional career includes providing strategic management consulting practices for Fortune 500 companies as well as local small businesses. He has consulted with numerous industries spanning over 25 years of professional experience globally.
His current professional endeavors are all centric to the disruptive nature of the social web. He writes at Relationship Economy and provides social media strategic services to businesses large and small..
He is Co-Author, of The Emergence of The Relationship Economy” released in January of 08 and can be accessed here
Tthe forward to this book was written by Doc Searls, Co-Author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Doc Searls is a Berkman Fellow and co-author of the business best-seller "The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual"
Jay Deragon is also an author of a second book titled “Socialutions: The Emergence of New Management Methods“.
His blog, The Relationship Economy, is rated within the top 150 blogs rated by Advertising Age. He is an international speaker and has conducted in excess of 100 seminars on a variety of topics.
His blog has over 180,000 visitors, over 7,000 comments, instilled 6,000 retweets, ranked in the top 50,000 sites in the USA and ranked top 100,000 in the world.
He is noted as featured blogger in Business Weeks Business Exchange four times, chosen as Blogger of the month by Social Media Today, ranked in Advertising Age Power 150 and ranked top 100 blogs in The Daily Reviewer. He is a contributing columnist in Personal Branding Magazine, serves on Business Weeks Market Advisory Board. He is a featured blogger at New Media Hires, Content Management Connections and AlwaysOn. He has spoken at dozens of media events and corporate conferences, produced dozens of videos with Social Media Connections, published two books and five white papers.
His formal education started at the University of Maine with continued education credits at Dartmouth College, Penn State and the University of Wisconsin. He is certified in the following disciplines: Quality Engineer, Quality Function Deployment, Advanced Risk Management, Statistical Process Control, Hoshin Kanri, D.I.S.C Instructor, Organizational Change Management and Strategic Planning.
To learn more about his professional life you can review his Linkedin profile here.
email: jay.deragon@gmail.com
Dan Robles, Senior Consultant, Economic Innovation
Dan Robles has worked in the technical design, creative, and innovation fields for over 25 years and has left an indelible mark in industries as diverse as aerospace, education, international trade, economics, and most recently, the social media revolution. Notably, he has commissioned well over 3 Billion dollars worth of capital assets to the marketplace.
Dan is well known for directing a landmark comparative education research program between the US and Mexico as part of the NAFTA negotiations related to the valuation and capitalization of knowledge assets. Dan is a Licensed Professional Engineer, he holds and MBA in International Business, and is an adjunct professor at The City University of Seattle.
Recently, Mr. Robles is credited for the development of a branch of modern economics that specifies the structure of a global innovation economy. He is Author of the controversial thesis; Innovation Economics, the Integration and Capitalization of Knowledge. He has written hundreds of articles and papers articulating the research in what many experts are now calling the next paradigm of economic development using social media for the direct capitalization of knowledge assets; that is, tangible knowledge.
In addition to his role at Social Media Directions, Dan is the Founder and Director of The Ingenesist Project (TIP), a Seattle based think tank developing applications and embodiments of the innovation economy. Mr. Robles keeps an active schedule speaking internationally at conferences and corporate events as a futurist on the subject of the innovation economy and the role of social media in the next economic paradigm
email: dan@ingenesist.com
Irene Williams: Director of Communications and PR
Irene Williams, Social Media Directions spokesperson is an accomplished writer and business communicator with a 17+ year career in marketing, PR and advertising. She's spent most her career agency-side, providing a wide-ranging client base her expertise in strategic planning, creative content creation, media relations and full-scale communications campaigns.
She also works as a freelance writer, focusing on boutique writing projects, jingle writing, web content and video scripts, and even writes a monthly column for HER Nashville Magazine.
Thanks to her varied experiences and agency background, Irene has a heart for offering ideas and inspiration to small or resource-challenged businesses and industries, to help them implement marketing and social media programs effectively to achieve success. She's available to speak to groups and associations on these topics and is presently underway on a book as well.
Irene earned accreditation as a business communicator from the International Association of Business Communicators in 1999 and holds a BA in Professional Writing from Baylor University.
email: irene@workwriting.net
The Depth of Resource
Social Media Directions has a pool of diverse experts representing the multiple disciplines that drive the value of social technology. Social Media Directions has a pool of over 50 professional resources who understand the dynamics of the medium and are considered “best in class” thinkers within the community of movers and shakers within the social web.
Social Media Directions also maintains collaborative relations with numerous resources who each have specific management disciplines and knowledge domains. Our philosophy is aimed at "collaborative" efforts with people and organizations whose expertise and discipline exemplify trust, character, professionalism and thought leadership which can help the overall market mature and maximize returns on efforts.
No one person or organization can truly represent and effectively deliver everything a client may need. Thus we chose a collaborative and virtual organization model that collaborates with others whom reflect our collective principles and can be trusted to deliver beyond any organizations expectations. You can review our scope of services here.
Collaborative Communities & Relationships
Social Media Directions leverages the pool of virtual resources and partners with organizations and individuals whose discipline can increase the value we bring to clients and other partners.
Our collaborative strategic alliances include:
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The Conversation Group is a global consultancy broadly dedicated to the art, science, and practical application of social technologies. We’re enabling organizations around the world to radically scale their ability to discover, engage and collaborate with their constituencies, both inside and outside the enterprise. With offices in the US and Europe, we are helping some of the world’s leading brands — including Best Buy, Verizon Business, Alcatel-Lucent, The Symbian Foundation, and the New York Stock Exchange — to educate, transform, and evolve their organizations to compete more effectively — and more efficiently — in the network economy.
We have five tightly-linked practice areas: strategy, research, communications, process, and technology.
The Conversation Group is a global consultancy broadly dedicated to the art, science, and practical application of social technologies. We’re enabling organizations around the world to radically scale their ability to discover, engage and collaborate with their constituencies, both inside and outside the enterprise. With offices in the US and Europe, we are helping some of the world’s leading brands — including Best Buy, Verizon Business, Alcatel-Lucent, The Symbian Foundation, and the New York Stock Exchange — to educate, transform, and evolve their organizations to compete more effectively — and more efficiently — in the network economy.
We have five tightly-linked practice areas: strategy, research, communications, process, and technology.
Conversational Currency is a moderated online community of select thought leaders coming together to implement a financial system for conversation as a tangible asset whose value can be monetized in Social Media space. The articles posted here reflect examples of how conversations already act as the exchange medium in trade, or otherwise behaves like money.
Social Media has enabled society in many astonishing ways. However, the ability to “design, produce, direct, and sustain” conversations that have specific, predictable and tangible economic outcome remains the Holy Grail of Social Media, and indeed a true Innovation Economy.
www.conversationalcurrency.com
Content Management Connection is an online community for technology practitioners, software companies, and end users to share thoughts and ideas on the changing landscape of content management and collaboration.
This site is produced by George Dearing, Founder of The Dearing Group LLC. and Business Development Director for Telligent, a social computing software company.
http://blog.contentmanagementconnection.com/Home/
Social Media Connections Broadcast Network is a community of experienced professionals representing numerous disciplines and capacities. This community is aimed at at providing education, experience, tools and technology for individuals and businesses to succeed in today's emerging social space.
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