Archive for the ‘Community Experts’ Category

Marc Perramond, Director of Product Management, InsideView

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Marc Perramond


Marc is the Director of Product Management for InsideView, a pioneer in on-demand business search and intelligence. He is responsible for InsideView’s product strategy, evangelism, and execution.

Marc has been in technology for 10+ years with experience in product strategy, product management, product marketing, consulting, and sales engineering.  Prior to joining InsideView, he served as Director of Product Management at Convergys, Senior Solution Architect at DigitalThink, and Project Manager at Lifescape, LLC.

Kellie Partker - Online Community Manager, PCWorld.com and Macworld.com

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Kellie Parker

As the Online Community Manager for PCWorld.com and Macworld.com, Kellie Parker is responsible for setting the community-building strategies, managing the relationships with community software vendors, and interacting with the community members on both sites. She also manages all member created content on both sites, including blogs and blog comments, product reviews, and wiki knowledge base. She is responsible for all interactive features of both sites, including polls and user contests. She manages the PC World “Letters to the Editor” inbox and edits the “PCW Forum” section of PC World magazine each month. In addition, she writes a community-focused column on PC World, writes an IDG-internal blog focused on community and social networking, and contributes to the Today @ PC World blog on social networking and user generated content news. 

Prior to joining PC World & Macworld, Kellie was a Senior Producer & Online Community Manager with LiveWorld, Inc for 7 years. At LiveWorld, she built and managed some of the web’s largest branded communities, including HBO, A&E, History Channel, QVC and Discovery Channel.

Kellie holds an MBA in Marketing (with Graduate Honors) from Regis University.

Gil Heiman - Community Director, Clarizen

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Gil Heiman

Community Director at Clarizen (On-demand Project Collaboration solutions), acting as the users’ advocate and liaison between the user community and Clarizen internal members. My main role is to facilitate the tools and content to make sure Clarizen end-users’ voice is heard internally and that the Clarizen Community has easy access to the latest news from Clarizen, including product updates, company blogs and customer success stories.

Prior to Clarizen, worked at an early stage software company called Collanos, initially as the Director of Product Management and later as their Community Director. Over the last 10 years have been focusing on product management activities, representing the customer/user at internet start-ups and large software companies.

Entrepreneur in spirit, always seeking innovative solutions to create a better user experience. Thrive in smaller, team oriented environments and enjoy taking upon myself formidable challenges which I pursue with determination.

MBA and MS-MIS from Boston University and a B.A in Japanese from Hebrew University, Jerusalem.